Welcome to the Penny Mix Films website.  We make stop motion movies with action figures
and have been known to make music videos too.   A full list of the movies, with links where appropriate, can be found here

With almost a hundred short videos created with toys from the last few decades, Penny Mix Films have become well known amongst video channels around the world.
We currently have over 500 subscribers on Youtube.

Since forming in 2006, we've gone onto make films for our own amusement, for the promotion of music and have had our work shown on tv and discussed in print.   Most recently in Empire Magazine (3 issues in 2010 for a 60 Second Remake Competition) and featured
on the official Kiss website last Halloween.

Never afraid to take the last new Doctor Who Action Figure off the shelves and leave a kid crying in the name of art, Penny Mix Films have literally a cast of thousands to call
upon and I only have to provide them with Blu-Tac.

 Here are a few highlights in the life of Penny Mix Films :

2010

Finalist in the 2010 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge!

Top 20 Finalist in Empire Magazine's - Done In 60 Seconds Competition.
 Featured inside February, March and April 2010 Empire Magazine
as a finalist in their remake competition.
A big surprise to be seen in the magazine for sure. 
WH Smiths probably wondered why I was buying so many copies too.
 

Palitoy Express gets shown across the US, thanks to the
Gi Joe Film Festival.

A clip from it also gets shown on MTV Brazil

Featured on the fantastic Star Wars Action News Podcast

We make a music video for Cyrus Gabrysch,
only the second musician ever to get a Penny Mix Films music video.

2009

We were featured on the home page of Kissonline.com, the official Kiss website
( for Kiss Halloween Special ), receiving 10,000 hits

We also finished Third place in the People's Choice Award section of
Hula Hoop's Golden Hoop movie awards ( for Stunt Challenge )

2008

A great mention for our Bo Pepper video
in UK newspaper The Sun's Bizarre Showbiz pages. Scans from the online and
printed versions below.

The Private Universe, top UK Sci-Fi news site
hosts a 10 week season of our movies !

Penny Mix Films gets a mention for the Bo Pepper videos
on the Janice Long BBC Radio 2 Show.

Our videos and photographs for Bo Pepper get a mention
in The Guardian -

".... they've got these great sock puppets that they use for their artwork and videos,
which have already earned them a fair degree of cult interest on the internet.
Their stop-motion animated shorts feature the cutest/creepiest knitted
creatures since Mr Oizo and have so far notched up over 700,000 hits
on the web, making them more popular than Sooty but less
so than Orville in the hands-up-animal-jacksies stakes."

"Cult interest on the internet" - The Guardian (UK Newspaper online)
For the Bo Pepper videos

"Incredibly popular" - Janice Long, BBC Radio 2
For the Bo Pepper videos

2007

In July 2007, we were approached by Endermol (Channel 4) to create a Big Brother animation for transmission live on a future Sunday show.  A couple of weeks later, our 'Celebritoy Big Bother' video was broadcast  to 1.8 million people on Big Brother’s Little Brother.  It featured a cast of Sylvanian Families, bringing these furry critters back in to the limelight once more!

Bo Pepper Xmas video launched on Perezhilton.com
55,000 hits in a few days, #2 on Youtube music video chart
and appearing in 11 other Youtube honors charts.
Editor's Choice award on Grouper/Crackle video
It was also 'featured' on Youtube, a first for us !

'Draggin Me Down' gets an amazing
300,000 views in just over a week and ends up with half a million hits.

June 11th 2007 - Penny Mix Films 'I'm Bored' video segment
shown on ITV London Tonight show.

We get a mention on Wikipedia (click for full article)

2 appearances on Perezhilton.com

2006

Penny Mix Films was born in 2006, for a Star Wars action figure competition from Hasbro.
Our first movie, 'Saturday Night At-At The Movies' ended up a runner up at their Hasbro Mini Movie Awards. 
We attended the awards ceremony at the Birmingham NEC, had a great time.

2006 also saw us make our first ever official music video, for Bo Pepper.   
We are very proud to be the creators of the 8 animated music videos for the band.
The videos were seen many thousands of times across Youtube and other sites.  Our work for them
also saw us on the London News, in The Sun Newspaper (circulation 3 million per day)
and Heat Magazine's website.  An amazing time.   By the end of 2006, we'd had an official  music video hit the most watched spot on Youtube.  ‘I’ll See You This Christmas”, an official video for Alexis Strum ( released under our side project name Palmer-Cliff Movies )  gained 50,000 hits in 2 days and featured a bunch of penguins, a reindeer wearing a jumper and a keyboard playing cat.   It even got featured on Perez Hilton's infamous website.

 One of our proudest early moments involved having the musician Brian May actually watch our our ‘Queen, A Kind Of Mego’ music video.  This was a recreation of a Magic era Queen concert made with Queen look alike Mego figures and a replica Wembley Stadium stage.   A copy of the movie was also requested to go in the official Queen archives, where it now proudly sits.

'I'll See You This Christmas' - Most viewed music video on Youtube - 12/12/06

"We all watched it on my laptop and we all loved it. " - Quote by Ricky Ross for the Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid video, December 2006

Bo Pepper video on rotation on satellite tv channel MTV Flux, November 2006

Commissioned for a series of music videos by Bo Pepper / Alexis Strum, August 2006

A copy of 'Queen - A Kind Of Mego' requested to go in the official Queen Archives, August 2006

"I think this is fun!" Quote by Brian May for the Queen - A Kind Of Mego video , August 2006

Runner Up - Hasbro mini movies, August 2006

Who ?

Penny Mix Films was formed by Paul Rowley and John Collier in 2006.. 
We also have an extended team of helpers on the movies, including Sue Kent on props, costumes and repairs. 
Alex Pritchard on music duties for our Halo movies and operating dinosaurs. 
We also have Penny Mix friends Alexis Strum, Chris Walsh and Russ Birks and on voiceovers and singing.

 Awards / Achievements !

Finalist - Atom Films Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge, 2010

Atom Pro Video Award - The Empire Strikes Back Action Figure Adventure, 2010

Top 20 Finalist - Done In 60 Seconds Empire Magazine Film Contest, 2010

Third place - Viewers Choice, Hula Hoops Golden Film Awards, 2009

'I Haven't Got You Anything'- Youtube 'Featured',  Christmas 2007

Finalist / Runner up – Hasbro Mini Movie awards 2006 – for 'Saturday Night At-At The Movies'

4 Editor's Choice awards from Crackle video ( Sony Pictures ) for
'Draggin' Me Down', 'Buses', 'Blinkandyoullmissit!' and 'I Haven't Got You Anything'