Four global majority artists selected for FLAMIN Animations 2026
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Film London has announced the four early-career, Global Majority* artists selected for FLAMIN Animations, a flagship commissioning scheme that provides production funding alongside a package of practical, hands-on support courtesy of award-winning animation studio Blinkink and sound studio Major Tom.
Working across traditional 2D animation, shadow puppetry, 3D and digital techniques and an ink-on-paper approach inspired by Chinese calligraphy, the artists’ work highlights the breadth of talent, technique and storytelling ambition to be found across the UK. The selected artists are:
- Ann Dinh
- Cole Morris
- Titash Sen
- Hannah Wu
Clockwise from top left to bottom right:
Ann Dinh, courtship.com (2025)
Hannah Wu, 走 (zǒu) (2025)
Titash Sen, An Archaeology of Hope (2026)
Cole Morris, My Shoes for the Blacks (2026)
As well as £3,500 in production funding, each artist will receive a carefully-tailored package of support, mentoring and guidance worth an estimated £20,000 as they work towards creating a new three-minute animation. Previous FLAMIN Animations have screened at film festivals around the world, including Annecy International Animation Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, DOK Leipzig, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Fest Anča, Animator Poznan and the London International Animation Festival.
Adrian Wootton OBE, Chief Executive of Film London, said:
We received more applications than ever for the fifth edition of FLAMIN Animations, and the calibre of the submissions really does showcase the startling power and imagination of the UK’s artist animators.
The selected artists’ work is fresh, exciting and thought-provoking, and we can’t wait to see where they take these new commissions.
FLAMIN Animations is run in partnership with Blinkink and Major Tom and supported by Arts Council England. The programme comes as part of Film London’s ongoing commitment to respond to the underrepresentation of Global Majority artists within the art, film, and animation industries.
*Global Majority refers to people of African, Asian, indigenous, Latin American, or mixed-heritage backgrounds
Clockwise from top left to bottom right:
Ann Dinh, Titash Sen, Hannah Wu, Cole Morris (Images courtesy of Film London)
About this year’s FLAMIN Animations cohort
Ann Dinh
Ann Dinh is a Vietnamese British illustrator and animator, currently based near London. She graduated from Manchester School of Art in 2025.
She’s drawn to stories about people and emotional pain, working through a watercolour-to-digital process that emphasises texture and atmosphere. Her practice finds the humorous and offbeat in environments, characters and their relationships, twisting the everyday into something slightly surreal.
Ann’s graduation film courtship.com (2025) has been screened internationally across festivals such as Annecy International Animation Festival, Fest Anča and the North Western Royal Television Society.
Ann’s FLAMIN Animations commission Waterproof focuses on two young Vietnamese women whose relationship becomes intimate at a swimming pool. Rather than a film about swimming, the animation explores youth, sexuality and first heartbreaks, using water and the swimming pool as motifs to navigate the emotional lives of the gay protagonists.
Cole Morris
Cole Morris is a 25-year-old neuro-diverse multi-media artist of Caribbean and British descent living in Sheffield. He uses shadow puppetry, film, illustration, sound, photography and animation to explore the black British experience through myth, histories and archive materials. Cole creates otherworldly stories from the familiar materials of paper, found objects, sound, and photography. His creative practice is rooted in experimentation and pushing the limits of these materials, driven by a fascination with early pioneers of cinema.
Cole’s recent three-channel video installation My Shoes for the Blacks (2026) was commissioned by Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham. His film Hunter 77: The Joe Phillips Story (2025) received the Director’s Award, Liverpool Migration Matters Festival, following its presentation at the Dig Where You Stand Biennial 2024 in Sheffield.
Cole’s FLAMIN Animations commission We meet duppies down there is based on his Jamaican grandmother’s childhood encounter with The Rolling Calf, a shapeshifting spirit that takes the form of a monstrous, chain-covered bull with fire for eyes. The film will explore the idea of hauntings as a manifestation of the collective inherited memory of the trauma of Jamaica’s violent past. Cole will create “lost” archival footage and use real first-person accounts alongside experimental shadow puppetry.
Titash Sen
Titash Sen is a multidisciplinary artist and animator with a background in journalism. Her practice is research-led, examining historical, colonial, algorithmic, or environmental systems and their effect on individual lived experiences and realities. She enjoys combining analogue with digital processes and allowing the medium to become a metaphor.
She created the visuals and animated The Big Up (2023-2025), an short film series that recovered the stories of global majority figures forgotten in British history, produced by The Big House Theatre Company. The series won two Lovie Awards for Best Film & Video (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) in 2024. Titash was a Venice Biennale Fellow in 2022.
Titash’s FLAMIN Animations commission Breather is an animated documentary about the alarmingly toxic levels of smog in Delhi every winter and the colossal failure of governance that perpetuates this crisis year after year. Illustrating a day in the life of daily wage workers, the film will present the persistence of life in unliveable conditions, as particulate matter in the city rises beyond measurable limits.
Hannah Wu
Hannah Wu is an artist and animator from London. Her work explores the cross-cultural possibilities of animation, investigating ideas around language and identity through tactile analogue processes. She is drawn to materials like ink that resist control, inviting experimentation and imperfection, whilst engaging with East Asian art traditions.
She holds an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art. Her graduate film 走 (zǒu) has screened at festivals including Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Anibar International Animation Festival and Tricky Women / Tricky Realities. In March 2026, she was awarded an artist residency at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
For her FLAMIN Animations commission, Hannah draws on the process of writing out and learning Chinese characters to explore the role of repetition, memory and transformation across animation and language learning, working with ink on paper and analogue film.