Fonic is pleased to be working with Animate Projects, a UK-based arts organisation that commissions, produces, and presents innovative animation at the intersection of film, art, and experimental practice. Animate Projects fosters bold, creative work that engages audiences across galleries, festivals, and digital platforms.
Animate Projects has a commissioning programme designed to support early-career animation artists in developing original, experimental work. The programme began in 2024 with PLANTING and continued in 2025 with MORTAL. Animate selects a theme and chooses the participating artists. Animate provides production and editorial guidance as each artist creates a short, single-screen animated film, and then supports the showcase of the completed works at public events, online, and on Instagram, giving these emerging artists professional support and public exposure for their work.
The third iteration, ROAM, explores the Right to Roam and invites artists Edd Carr, Grace Lee, and Sarah Taylor Silverwood to respond to the vision of “a future countryside in which people not only enjoy the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of nature but serve as its guardians too.” Each artist undertakes a period of research and development, exploring the theme and refining their ideas through discussions with Right to Roam campaigner Jon Moses.
ROAM also marks the first year that Fonic has supported this commissioning programme, providing full audio support, including sound design and mixing, for each of the films.
Right to Roam
Since 2021, Right to Roam has been organising peaceful trespasses into some of the vast areas of countryside from which the public are currently excluded.
Led by botanists, ornithologists, astronomers, dancers, singers, citizen scientists, outdoors specialists and poets, Right to Roam follows the tried and tested access code which governs Scotland’s right of responsible access, respecting privacy, crops and nature – all while seeking to leave a positive trace and practising deep care for the natural world: a concept they call Wild Service.
Their vision is of a future countryside in which people not only enjoy the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of nature but serve as its guardians too.
https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/
Jon Moses
Jon is a writer and campaigner. He has published features, essays and profiles on environmental and other issues for The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Lead, The Great Outdoors and in 2024 co-edited Right to Roam’s book, Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You.
He joined Right to Roam in 2021 after completing a doctorate in GeoHumanities and realising he knew almost nothing about where he actually lived.
A lengthy river trespass followed, and he’s never been the same since. At Right to Roam, Jon focuses on policy, communications and the ground campaign.