The biographies of two lonely pen-friends that spans two continents and twenty years. 2009, 93 minutes.

Narrated by Barry Humphries. Max voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Mary voiced by Toni Collette. Damian voiced by Eric Bana.

It would have been easier to get a man underwater with no eyes or  fingers to put a herd of overweight elephants through the eye of a bent needle in the middle of a tsunami, than to attempt to make a feature stop-motion film. In a nutshell, (for our studio was a shell full of nuts), MARY AND MAX took 120 people five years to make with a budget of eight million dollars. Luckily the team fell in love with characters and the 57 week shoot was an exhausting but rewarding experience for all. With the voices of such incredible actors as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana and Barry Humphries, we were lucky enough to Open the Sundance Film Festival in early 2009. Since then the film has travelled the world and we receive many wonderful letters from people who’ve been entertained and touched by the story. Will we make another one? Well, like quickly forgetting the pain of child birth, we’re pregnant again and I have started writing our next epic. Stay tuned, if you can be bothered or live long enough ...

The biography of an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck. 2003, 22 minutes. Narrated by Geoffrey Rush.

Where do I begin with this film? Firstly it won an Oscar® up against Pixar, Disney and Fox who all had made multi-million dollar shorts. HARVIE was an extremely challenging short for us to make. Taking almost three years we animated about 5 seconds per day and running well over twenty minutes, it was one of the longest stop-motion shorts ever made in Australia. Luckily it all paid off and HARVIE is still popular today all over the world.

“The biography of a brother, his cigarette butts, asthma and head lice. 1999, 8 minutes. Narrated by William McInnes.

This film concluded THE TRILOGY as it became known. Of the three shorts this third and final one was very autobiographical. Again I wanted to fuse comedy and tragedy and really explore the funny and dark moments of his childhood. Back in 1999 when I made this film I was quite a purist and minimalist and made strange rules for myself such as only allowing to make the film with a selection of tools I could only fit into a filing cabinet. My late twenties were a weird period ...

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The biography of a cousin, his special arm, pet rocks and shopping trolley. 1998, 5 minutes. Narrated by William McInnes.

This was my second clayography about the childhood memories of my cousin who has Cerebral Palsy. I learnt that an animated film can deal with tough subject matter and still be funny at the same time. It won lots of awards and I quickly realised that an audience that reacts positively to a story is the best reward for sitting in a black box for a year moving blobs of plasticine around one frame at a time.

The biography of a humble man, his lemon tree, chihuahua and crumpets. 1996, 6 minutes. Narrated by William McInnes. Uncle voiced by John Flaus. This was my very first attempt at claymation at film school and was the short that began my career as a writer and director. My visual aesthetic hasn’t really changed much since then and I still love to use narration as a device to drive the story. UNCLE is still being screened at festivals around the world 14 years after it was made and we are amazed at how it still hasn’t seemed to date. Of course I had no idea what I was doing at the time and was very lucky I accidentally made something universal, dark, funny and successful.

I am currently writing my new feature film which will hopefully go into pre-production

towards the end of 2010 and then be released around 2012.