Magdalena Osinska
Directing
Biography
Magda is an award winning director who has been working in Aardman Animation. She works in a variety of styles including stop motion, CGI, 2D and live action commercials. Her most recent works are numerous DFS ads including Wallace and Gromit ‘The Great Sofa Caper’, Dammy the Beaver, as well as Share the Orange Alzheimer’s Research campaign starring Samuel L Jackson, Bryan Cranston and Christopher Eccleston. The film was PR Week Award Winner and it became the most successful digital campaign in the charity’s history.
Known For
This anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrates the mythos of Star Wars through unique cultural lenses.
Star Wars: Visions
Ant lives in an typical European metropolis, and is a typical representative of the generation of young, well-educated and ambitious European women. She works for a corporation, goes to a beautician, attends yoga classes, is trying to lose some fictitious weight, watches TV, and reads tabloids. She tries her best to be a successful woman: independent, professionally fulfilled, beautiful, and happy.Unwittingly, however, she craves great love, maybe even kids and a family… Our story begins when the Ant recognises the need and decides to fall in love. Though theoretically easy, it actually appears nearly impossible.
Ant Gets Married
Teo’s dream of dancing with Mia in the school competition seems hopeless…until he meets Ro, a funny bird-like creature with wondrous abilities, lost in the city. Ro’s friendship will help the wayward boy find his feet, but it will take more than dancing for Teo and Mia to help Ro find his way home before a looming disaster.
Ro
This short film tells a story about the joy of being a child.