Pre-School, 6+, 10+, Series Developer, Show Runner, Director
Jack Bennett is a Bristol based creative specialising in animation. For Wildseed Studios, he created the Broadcast award winning children’s coming of age animated series, DODO, based on his award-winning short film NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, which was commissioned as a Sky Original production and ran for two series. Jack worked as Series Director on both series and has written many episodes, which aired on HBOMax and Cartoon Network in the US, and ABC in Australia.
He has recently worked again with Wildseed as series director on TUFF POM, and is currently working with them as Series Director on COLLIDEOSCOPE, a new animated sketch series for CBBC created by Paul Whitehouse.
As a writer, Jack is also writing on COLLIDEOSCOPE and recently completed an animated pilot script commission for JAM Media. He has previously developed an original scifi animated series with Wildseed Studios and is currently developing a new mixed media preschool series with Lion TV.
Jack has previously worked as an animator on BALLYBRADDEN for Treehouse Republic and RTE, and has also worked in various animation and motion graphics design roles for Aardman Animations, Arthur Cox, Nutmeg Productions, Sponge, and The Like Minded.
Jack has British and EU citizenship.
Original mixed media preschool series
Director & Writer on 30 x 7min mixed media comedy sketch series
Voice director on 6-11 2D animated comedy series
Pilot script & bible polish commission
Director for proof of concept for CBBC Series
Creator, director & writer of animated series
Original animated series idea optioned
Script & bible commissioned
Creator, writer & director
*Winner Broadcast Digital Awards: Best Children’s Digital Content
Flash Animator
*Audience choice award – Plymouth Film Festival
*Best Script – Screentest: National Student Film Festival
*Best Animation – Cardiff Mini Film Festival
*Best Director of an animation Southampton International Film Festival
*Best Animation – East Coast Film Festival.
*Best Animation – London Monthly Film Festival
*Honourble mention – London X4 short film festival
*Semifinalist – San Maoro Film Festival
*Selection at Anima Brussells
*Selection at Aesthetica Film Festival
| TELEVISION | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| UNTITLED (2025-2025) | Lion TV | Original mixed media preschool series |
| COLLIDEOSCOPE (2025-2026) | Wildseed Studios / CBBC | Director & Writer on 30 x 7min mixed media comedy sketch series |
| TUFF POM (2025-2026) | Wildseed Studios / Telegael | Voice director on 6-11 2D animated comedy series |
| UNTITLED (2025-2025) | JAM Media | Pilot script & bible polish commission |
| COLLIDEOSCOPE (2024-2024) | Wildseed Studios | Director for proof of concept for CBBC Series |
| DODO Series 2 (2020-2024) | Wildseed Studios / Sky | Creator, director & writer of animated series |
| MATE (2022-2023) | Wildseed Studios | Original animated series idea optioned |
| DODO (2019-2020) | Wildseed Studios / Sky / HBO Max | Creator, writer & director |
| BALLYBRADDEN (2018-2018) | Treehouse Republic / RTE | Flash Animator |
| SHORT FILM | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (2016-2016) | *Audience choice award – Plymouth Film Festival |
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