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8 Lions is a data-powered kids and teens IP studio focused on building entertainment franchises that inspire and entertain global audiences. We provide growth and monetisation services for IP owners looking to scale on YouTube, broadcast and VOD distribution, licensing, merchandise as well as audio and social gaming. Building creative synergies between the East, Middle East & the West is fundamental to our growth. Our partners include producers, toy companies, and creators. 

Primary Activity: Animation Distribution

Other Activities: Animation Production, Content distribution, Production

CAKE is one of the world’s leading independent entertainment companies specialising in the production, distribution, development, financing and brand development of kids’ and family properties.

CAKE Distribution Ltd distributes over 1600 half hours of animation and live-action content, working with renowned producers including Rovio Entertainment, Fresh TV, Channel X, Kickstart and Ragdoll Productions on the worldwide roll out of their brands.

CAKE Productions Ltd supports CAKE’s development and production activities on shared and originated projects. With over 13 properties in development, productions include Angry Birds: Summer Madness for Netflix; Mama K’s Team 4 with Triggerfish Animation for Netflix; Angelo Rules with TeamTO for France Televisions, Canal+ and Super RTL, Space Chickens in Space with Anima Estudios for Disney EMEA; Pablo with Paper Owl for CBeebies and Mush-Mush & The Mushables with La Cabane and Thuristar currently premiering internationally on Boomerang.

An award-winning company, CAKE is based in London.

Primary Activity: Animation Distribution

Other Activities: Animation Distribution, Animation Production, Content distribution, Production

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UNITING FILM AND DIGITAL EXPERTISE

Cinelab Film & Digital is the UK’s only full service Film Laboratory and Digital Dailies Facility.

Our focus is always on delivering excellent service; by partnering with all clients and offering the very best talent, quality, technology, and expertise. From your initial enquiry, you will know your dedicated contact, ensuring ease of communication.

We are proud to have partnered with over 600 Cinematographers creating premium entertainment in feature films, episodic tv, commercials and music videos.

Uniquely, all film and digital services are located under one roof; all projects are managed by one brilliant team comprised of producers, skilled technicians, film and digital specialists and dailies colourists. We provide individual and comparative film and digital quotes if needed, often helpful when a decision is still to be made on shooting formats.

Best of all, moving dailies between facilities are no longer necessary, helping save time and money, offering added security and greater creativity.

Cinelab Film & Digital is easily accessible to international clients due to our proximity to Heathrow, enabling efficient and safe delivery of rushes from around the world.

Recent Feature credits include James Bond ‘No Time to Die’, ‘Last Night in Soho’, ‘Censor’, ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ and ‘The King’s Man 3’.  Episodic credits include ‘The Witcher, Succession, Small Axe and Discovery of Witches.

www.cinelab.co.uk  Telephone: 0044 +1753 501500

Primary Activity: Film Laboratory

Other Activities: Archiving, Colour Grading, Dailies, Digital Intermediate, DIT services, Film Lab, Film Scanning, Restoration

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Primary Activity: VFX

Other Activities: Animation, Animation and VFX, Animation Production, VFX

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Founded in 1997, Company 3 is a comprehensive post-production facility for features, commercials and music videos.

Known for its creative colour artistry, pioneering technology and global reach, Company 3 is trusted to deliver a quality product every time. It is home to one of the largest and most talented pools of colourists and visual effects artists working in post-production today with a client list that includes many of the most respected and talented film and entertainment professionals in the industry.

Company 3 offers solutions-based services ranging from colour correction, Digital Intermediate (DI) and file-based workflows to visual effects and online services. Through its virtual outposts, Company 3 Colourists are available to clients around the world.

Specialities include: Colour grading, Digital intermediate, On-set services, Visual effects, and Beauty.

Primary Activity: Post Production

Other Activities: Digital Intermediate

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Locksmith Animation is an independent, global animation studio developing and producing high-quality features, series, and shorts for audiences of all ages. Based in London and Los Angeles, Locksmith brings together a team of accomplished industry leaders and world-class creative talent in a filmmaker-led studio. The studio tells contemporary stories that make people laugh, think, and feel.

Locksmith’s debut feature, Ron’s Gone Wrong, was a critical and commercial success, released in partnership with 20th Century Studios. The studio’s follow-up, That Christmas, based on Richard Curtis’s best-selling children’s books, became the #1 original animated film on Netflix in 2024. It was longlisted for a BAFTA and nominated for six Annie Awards.

Locksmith has a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures and is currently in production on Bad Fairies, an original animated musical. The studio is also developing The Lunar Chronicles, a trilogy of films based on Marissa Meyer’s bestselling novels. Their first animated short film, Cardboard, directed by JP Vine and produced in association with DNEG Animation and Ritzy Animation, premiered at Annecy Film Festival in June 2025.

With an exciting slate of projects in the works, Locksmith is committed to creating groundbreaking entertainment that resonates globally with audiences of all ages.

Primary Activity: Animation Production

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Lupus Films is a London-based production company set up in 2002 by Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding to produce high quality films and TV series for children and families.

Multi-award winning, London-based studio, Lupus Films, was launched by Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding in January 2002. It has since grown to become one of the UK’s leading film and television production companies. Best known for high-quality family entertainment, Lupus Films works regularly with the finest talent including world famous authors, actors, directors, animators and composers. Lupus Films has developed an international reputation for beautifully crafted film adaptations of classic works of literature which have been seen in cinemas and on major broadcasters and SVOD channels worldwide.

Lupus Films productions include: the highly-acclaimed hand-drawn animated feature film adapted from Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel about his parents Ethel & Ernest (2016); the BAFTA-nominated sequel to Raymond Briggs’ original special The Snowman, The Snowman and The Snowdog (2012); the BAFTA nominated animated special based on Michael Rosen’s beloved book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (2016); the International Emmy® Kids Award-winning animated special adapted from the Judith Kerr favourite The Tiger Who Came to Tea (2019); a hand-drawn animated feature adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling novel Kensuke’s Kingdom (2023); along with a delightful half hour special adapted from Judith Kerr’s picture book Mog’s Christmas, which aired on Channel 4. For Christmas 2024 they made an animated musical feature called The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland for Sky and NBCUniversal which was show on Hulu and Amazon in the US.

They have made numerous series for children both pre-school and for older kids including, The Pinky & Perky Show for CBBC and France 3, Toot the Tiny Tugboat for Milkshake and S4C, and 156 episodes of a CGI pre-school show featuring a family of bees for Disney worldwide called The Hive as well as a yet un-named series based on beautiful book IP for Apple TV+

Specialties: Television, Film & TV Production, Media Production, Film, Broadcast, Digital Media, Family Entertainment, Post Production, Producing, Art Direction, Creative Direction, Factual Entertainment, Drama, Preschool Entertainment, Feature Films, CGI, 2D, Live-action, and Commercials

Primary Activity: Animation Production

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Snafu Pictures are creative production experts with a distinctive approach to animation, visual effects and project development. Using expertise of narrative as well as design for film/tv, games and brands, we combine creative with technology to develop & produce compelling content.
What unifies our work is a passion for character and craft. What sets us apart is a design acuity, production nouse and a network of pioneering multi-disciplinary creative talents.

With a diverse slate of original productions and co-productions as well as supporting a range of clients from production companies to brands and studios, our work spans the entertainment industry.

As a studio, Snafu is interested in developing authored, character-driven projects; where craft both in visual execution and narrative storytelling is at a project’s core.

Project images: https://snafu-pictures.com/work/

Primary Activity: Animation Production

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West Digital is a boutique post house in the heart of West London that’s been providing innovative and creative audio and picture post production for almost 20 years. We love what we do and we base our company culture on honesty, openness and collaboration. We do our best to support the local community and we endeavour to develop and nurture outstanding technical, creative and client facing talent; we are extremely proud of our amazing team. We have a wealth of experience working across factual, documentaries, entertainment, features, commercials and branded content and we pride ourselves on our open and collaborative approach to every project.

Primary Activity: Post Production

Other Activities: Audio Post Production, Colour Grading, Offline Editing, Online Editing, Post Production