
Philip Hunt
Directing
Biography
Philip Hunt is a partner and creative director at London-based Studio AKA where he has directed an eclectic range of animation projects. His work includes Ah Pook Is Here. and the BAFTA winning short Lost and Found.
Known For

The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he interacts with various family members: Anais, Richard, and Nicole Watterson, and other various citizens.
The Amazing World of Gumball

On the eve of Earth Day, a precocious seven-year-old learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents—and a mysterious exhibit at the aptly named Museum of Everything.
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

A magical tale of friendship and loneliness, which tells the story of a little boy who one day finds a penguin on his doorstep. Although at first he is unsure what to do, the boy becomes determined to help the penguin find his way back home... even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!
Lost and Found

In a bleak and desolate world, a small creature seeks out the woman of his dreams: a high-flying circus performer with a cruel and possessive ringmaster.
Jojo in the Stars

Three Navy SEALs leave their tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with treatment-resistant, unrelenting psychological pain. They find themselves at the cutting edge of a different frontline: a lifesaving psychedelic therapy that brings healing to a community in urgent need.
In Waves and War

Adapted and directed by Marc Craste, Varmints is a 24-minute film based on the award-winning book of the same name by Helen Ward and illustrated by Craste, that tells the story of one small creature's struggle to preserve a world in danger of being lost forever through recklessness and indifference. A crew of 35 people worked in three countries over a two year period to make the film, and an original score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and sound design by Adrian Rhodes complete the picture.
Varmints

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves to make one large creature.
Spotless Dominoes

In three distinct eras, a man walking down the street has an unexpected encounter with a chicken.
A Morning Stroll

A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the common man toils away. Written and narrated by William S. Burroughs.
Ah Pook Is Here.
A dark title sequence.
Reputations

A animated mixed-media music video of a prisioner who is in a chest of drawers breaks out of his cell.
The Man with No Brakes

Op een dag vindt een kleine jongen een pinguïn op zijn stoep. De jongen weet niet goed wat aan te vangen met het verdwaalde diertje. Omdat niemand hem lijkt te missen besluit hij de pinguïn dan maar met zijn roeiboot terug te brengen naar de Zuidpool. De reis belooft een beproeving te worden. De film wordt voorafgegaan door 4 andere verhaaltjes: "The Light" (Yuta Sukegawa, Japan); "Der Grosse Brüder" (Jesús Pérez & Elisabeth Hütterman, Zwitserland, Duitsland); "Much Better Now" (Salon Alip, Oostenrijk); "Bottle" (Kirsten Lepore, USA).