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Melanie Coombs is a producer of award-winning film and television including Oscar® winner Harvie Krumpet, Annecy Grand Cristal winner Mary and Max and Co-Producer on Oscar® winner Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, produced by animation powerhouse ShadowMachine.
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- Producer, Production Manager, Writer
- London, England, UK
- Melanie Coombs
Melanie Coombs is a producer of award-winning film and television including Oscar® winner Harvie Krumpet, Annecy Grand Cristal winner Mary and Max and Co-Producer on Oscar® winner Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, produced by animation powerhouse ShadowMachine.
- February 3, 1969
Oct 27, 2020 · Melanie Coombs is a producer whose credits involve the quirky lovable stop-motion animation short Harvie Krurmpet (here's the trailer) by Adam Elliot, which won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Short Animation).
- The Place of Animation in Cinema
- Melanie's Beginnings
- A Sense of “Australian Egalitarianism”
- Making Yourself Undeniable
Animation dates back to earliest days of cinema, and its early popularity was heavily reliant on the success of Disney, with 1928’s Steamboat Willie and 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves cementing the ‘house of mouse’ as a powerhouse of the form to this day. The original Disney 1940 version of Pinocchiowas the first animated feature to win Os...
Melanie didn’t start out seeking a career in animation, or even film. She first enrolled at UTS in “what feels like a million years ago…the late eighties” to study a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, majoring in Radio. She volunteered at 2SER, ultimately becoming station coordinator. Eventually, Melanie chose not to pursue the broadcast path any ...
After producing the feature length follow-up to Harvie Krumpetwith 2009’s Mary and Max, Melanie was at something of an impasse. She describes this as “the dramatic 40-year-old thing, everything falling apart.” This was in-part due to the relative commercial failure of the film, which received critical acclaim yet only managed to return a quarter of...
Melanie dedicates time to improving opportunities for filmmakers and creatives to forge a path into the industry. A recent example; for Pinocchio she collaborated with Screen Australia to bring intwo Australian creatives to work on the film. She is also an Ambassador for Screenrights, a member of Women in Animation, Women in Film, and is a member o...
Melanie Coombs is a producer of award-winning film and television including Oscar® winner Harvie Krumpet, Annecy Grand Cristal winner Mary and Max and Co-Producer on...
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- ShadowMachine
Mar 4, 2013 · Creative Producer Melanie Coombs speaks to Show Me The Animation at Encounters Short Film Festival about her adventures in Animation. Watch Melanie discuss t...
Melanie Coombs, producer, and Adam Elliot, animator/writer/director, have had a creative partnership for over 10 years working together on their Academy Awar...
