YDA JURY 2019: Bart Yates
Bart Yates
Executive Producer
Blinkink
London, UK
In 2005 he founded Blinkink, their dedicated animation division. Over the years he’s helped develop Blink into the multi-faceted creative studio that we are today, with the inception of Blink Art in 2009 and Blink Industries, our long-form entertainment arm, in 2015.
Personal highlights along the way include last year’s BBC Christmas film “The Supporting Act”, this year’s embroidered BBC World Cup trailer, last year’s “Great British Bake Off” trailer for Channel 4, Harvey Nichols’ Grand Prix winning “Shoplifters”, John Lewis’ animated classic “The Bear & The Hare”, their cult web-series “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” and for the last year they've produced all of the Gorillaz' music videos with Jamie Hewlett.
