May 2007
Hogfather picked up its second BAFTA award on Sunday when Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown and Ian Sharples were awarded the prize for ‘interactivity’. The Hogfather came up against stiff compatition from Dispatches (C4), The Big Climate Change Experiment (BBC) and The Secret Policeman’s Ball (C4) in order to triumph at the awards.
The programme, which was aired on Sky One last Christmas, has thus far received high acclaim from a number of institutions. In February this year the programme won its first BAFTA for the stunning Visual Effects used throughout the film. The Hogfather has also won the Multichannel Award from the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, and has been nominated for a RTS Award for ‘Best Drama Serial’.
The Hogfather, based on the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel, was a joint venture between The Mob Film Company and Sky One, and was directed by Vadim Jean whose showreel contains films including ‘Leon the Pig Farmer’, ‘One more Kiss’ and ‘Clockwork Mice’.