Awards / Achievements !
Penny Mix Films footage included in the Emmy
award winning 'Star Wars Uncut' Project, 2012
Finalist - Make A Video For Queen Competition, 2011
Finalist - Lucasfilm/Atom - Official Star Wars fan films, 2010
Top 20 Finalist - Done In 60 Seconds Empire Magazine Film Contest, 2010
Third place - Viewers Choice, Hula Hoops Golden Film Awards, 2009
Finalist / Runner up –
Hasbro Mini Movie awards 2006 – for 'Saturday Night At-At The Movies'
Music videos for Alexis Strum, Bo Pepper
and Cyrus Gabrysch.
Other bits and pieces -
Featured on the home page of Kissonline.com,
the official Kiss website
( for Kiss Halloween Special ), receiving 10,000 hits
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
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
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.
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