BreakThru Films

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Breakthru Films
Founded2002 (2002)
FounderHugh Welchman
HeadquartersSopot, Poland
Key people
Sean Bobbitt (CEO)
Dorota Kobiela (CCO)
Websitewww.breakthrufilms.pl

BreakThru Films is an independent film production company based in

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and their 2017 feature film Loving Vincent was Academy nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
.

History

BreakThru Films was founded in 2002 by Hugh Welchman, initially producing a number of short films before diversifying into feature, animation and theatre-based projects.

In 2007, they produced Alex, a stage show based on the

Daily Telegraph
comic strip of the same name, that combined live performances and animation. It premiered in London West End in Autumn 2007 and has since been touring in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai.

In 2008, the BreakThru animated short,

Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated).[1] They have also produced a number of live-action films, such as Scratch and The Last Thakur, as well as the upcoming The Flying Machine
, a film which combines live-action and animation, and stars Heather Graham and Lang Lang.

As well as developing their own productions, BreakThru have served as Visual Effects producers for

La Vie En Rose, and were the UK distributor for the 2006 animated film, Free Jimmy
.

Since 2012, BreakThru films has been based in the tricity area of Poland, with main production of Loving Vincent being completed in Gdańsk.

Loving Vincent

In 2017, Breakthru Films released

Annecy International Animated Film Festival
in June 2017. The film went on to receive numerous awards as well as Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

In early 2019 a documentary film about Loving Vincent came out called Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream.

Production and distribution

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