Presenting episode 115 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast!

In this episode we welcome Chris Sanders, director of the Dreamworks feature The Wild Robot out in UK cinemas now and adapted from Peter Brown’s #1 New York Times bestseller.

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

Also discussed in this episode: Remembering Emma Calder, upcoming Manchester Animation Festival highlights, Cardiff Animation Festival‘s special presentation of Robert Morgan’s Stopmotion, the return of Feathers McGraw in Wallace and Gromit‘s upcoming feature Vengeance Most Fowl, the encouraging response to Adam Elliot‘s new film Memoir of a Snail, kvetching about Carol and the End of the World and The New Norm, the furore around Velma, Mackinnon and Saunders‘ brilliant work on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and the completion of the second Skwigly book Intimate Animation (due March 2025)

Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson
Interview conducted by Ryan Gaur
Edited, produced and music by Ben Mitchell