Jackson Murphy

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Jackson Murphy is an Emmy-winning film critic, content producer, and author, who has also served as Animation Scoop reporter since 2016. He is the creator of the website Lights-Camera-Jackson.com, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio over the past 20 years.

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Animated Shorts At The Tribeca Film Festival

Since 2016, Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg has been curating the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual animation program. Goldberg has selected six shorts from around the globe for this year’s event, which will be available for attendees of the NYC festival three times. Past shorts screened as part of this program include the two most recent […]

INTERVIEW: Viva Pictures Victor Elizalde and “Ploey”

The world of animated film creation/distribution is made-up of major players and the smaller studios, who are also producing and releasing content on a regular basis. One of those is Viva Pictures, an independent studio and all-rights distributor, whose animation division, Viva Kids, has brought hundreds of feature films to screens big and small. The […]

INTERVIEW: Mike Rubiner on producing Nick’s “The Loud House”

The Loud House continues to make a lot of noise. While production is beginning for Season 4 of Nickelodeon’s hit comedy, so is work on the recently-announced, The Loud House Movie, which will find a home on Netflix. Oh, and the show just picked-up a trio of 2019 Daytime Emmy Award nominations, the most in […]

INTERVIEW: Writer Justin Trefgarne on You Tube’s “Sherwood”

As a Brit, Justin Trefgarne was well versed in the legend of “Robin Hood”. What the writer of the new YouTube Originals animated series, “Sherwood” wasn’t prepared for was the instant popularity of the show. Sherwood is a futuristic take on the classic story, with a tech savvy 14-year-old girl as Robin. The series debuted […]

INTERVIEW: Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb on Pixar’s Oscar hopeful “Bao”

Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb were two of hundreds of Pixar creators who worked on the studio’s award-winning, Inside Out. Little did they know at the time that 5+ years later they would be Oscar nominees – Shi as director and Neiman-Cobb as producer – for Bao, Pixar’s latest quirky, thought-provoking animated short. Domee Shi: […]

Jackson Murphy

Editor

Articles By Jackson Murphy

Animated Shorts At The Tribeca Film Festival

INTERVIEW: Viva Pictures Victor Elizalde and “Ploey”

INTERVIEW: Mike Rubiner on producing Nick’s “The Loud House”

INTERVIEW: Writer Justin Trefgarne on You Tube’s “Sherwood”

INTERVIEW: Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb on Pixar’s Oscar hopeful “Bao”

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