All Lit Up! A Podcast for the Creative Industries – Details, episodes & analysis

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All Lit Up! A Podcast for the Creative Industries

Lighthouse Studios

Leisure

Tv & Film

Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 16

ALL LIT UP is an entertaining new podcast from Lighthouse Studios for the creative industries and screen sectors.

Hosted by Head Creative, Gilly Fogg.

Each episode features a special guest who shares the secrets of their creative success, plus one short film they think everyone needs to see.

Season One features directors, producers, writers and artists from right across the creative industries.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - animationAndManga
18/08/2026
#85
🇩🇪 Germany - animationAndManga
13/08/2026
#89
🇩🇪 Germany - animationAndManga
20/07/2026
#94
🇩🇪 Germany - animationAndManga
19/07/2026
#79
🇩🇪 Germany - animationAndManga
18/07/2026
#52
🇬🇧 Great Britain - animationAndManga
16/07/2026
#98
🇬🇧 Great Britain - animationAndManga
15/07/2026
#80
🇬🇧 Great Britain - animationAndManga
14/07/2026
#52
🇫🇷 France - animationAndManga
08/07/2026
#95
🇫🇷 France - animationAndManga
07/07/2026
#93

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Brenda Chapman | Getting to the Heart of the Story on 'Brave'

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 • Duration 21:00

Brenda Chapman tells the incredible story of her life and career to date, from being roped into directing her first major studio feature to how becoming a mother led her to create the Academy Award winning feature, BRAVE. Featuring a Discussion on the Frédéric Back short, The Man Who Planted Trees.

The Man who Planted Trees

The Man who Planted Trees is the 1988 Academy Award winning story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley. Directed by Frédéric Back.

Watch THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES here!

About Brenda Chapman

BRENDA CHAPMAN started her career as a story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1987, where she worked on several animated films including The Little Mermaid, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Oscar nominated Beauty and the Beast. Brenda was the story supervisor on the original The Lion King, for which she won ASIFA’s Annie Award.

Brenda then helped launch DreamWorks Animation Studios, and co-directed the 1998 release of the Oscar winning Prince of Egypt. She also developed several projects at DWA and consulted on Shrek, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron among others.

Joining Pixar Animation Studios in September 2003, Brenda created, wrote and directed Brave – inspired by her relationship with her daughter – for which she won an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film.

Her live-action debut, Come Away, starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

All Lit Up! is a Lighthouse Studios production.

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About Sarah Wallendjack

Sarah Wallendjack is an Emmy award-winning Executive Producer with a 20+ year career developing and creating impactful children’s content.

Prior to joining PBS KIDS as the Senior Director of Content Development, Sarah served as Vice President of Development and Production at 9 Story Media Group where she Co-Created Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures, having worked her way up to Executive Producer working across 103 episodes over three seasons of the original series. She also developed and Executive Produced Netflix’s Charlie’s Colorforms City, and served as the Supervising Producer on five seasons of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.

A leader in the industry, Sarah was the President of the Children’s Media Association and is passionate about fostering the next generation of children’s media makers.

In her free time, Sarah enjoys scuba diving, synchronized swimming, sewing a handmade wardrobe, the Muppets, and making things.

Mackinnon & Saunders | Crafting by Hand & Working with Tim Burton

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 • Duration 19:46

Ian Mackinnon & Peter Saunders discuss building their world-famous stop motion studio out of necessity, how a soup spoon transformed the Corpse Bride, and their long-established relationship with Tim Burton. Plus, not one but TWO short film choices - we are spoiled with this one!

Harvey Krumpet

Harvey Krumpet is the 2004 Academy Award winning short film by Adam Elliott and the biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.

Watch HARVEY KRUMPET here!

The Mask

In a world where everyone has masks, a couple always wears smiles for each other. One day he loses his smile outside, and she is waiting for him. By Hyoung-Min Choi.

Watch THE MASK here!

About Mackinnon & Saunders

Ian and Peter are co-founders of Mackinnon & Saunders, the world-renowned leaders in character development for animation and producers of stop motion and 2D digital animation. Over 3 decades the team at Mackinnon & Saunders have brought some of the best-known animated characters to life for movies and TV series.

The team have crafted puppets for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox, Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!, Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie and Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar winning Pinocchio for Netflix.

The Mackinnon & Saunders studio produce the animation for countless projects, including The House, , , , and most recently animated sequences for Tim Burton’s.

Maggie Kang & Chris Applehans | Making 'K-Pop Demon Hunters'

Season 1 · Episode 8

Tuesday, January 27, 2026 • Duration 43:22

Join Maggie Kang and Chris Applehans for a no-holds barred telling of what it took to make the smash hit of 2025, the glorious KPop Demon Hunters, which has just this week been nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards!

Maggie and Chris share the steps they took to push their film forward, when they had to push back instead, and how an idea pitched over brunch became a multi-million-dollar production.

Hosted by interviewer extraordinaire, Gilly Fogg.

Recorded in October 2025

MAGGIE KANG - DIRECTOR

Maggie Kang is a director of Sony Pictures Animation’s KPop Demon Hunters, which originated from her idea and is now streaming on Netflix.

Kang began her career at DreamWorks Animation as a story artist on various projects including the Puss In Boots franchise and The Croods: A New Age, as well as Rise of the Guardians, Kung-Fu Panda 3, Trolls, Shrek Forever After, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Over the Hedge.

Prior to joining Sony Animation, Kang contributed her talents as a story artist at Illumination Entertainment on Minions: The Rise of Gru, and Warner Animation Group, where she was Head of Story on The LEGO Ninjago Movie.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Kang grew up in Toronto, Canada and attended Sheridan College where she studied classical animation.

CHRIS APPELHANS - DIRECTOR

Chris Appelhans is a director of Sony Pictures Animation’s KPop Demon Hunters, now streaming on Netflix, with fellow director Maggie Kang.

Posy Simmonds | From Lifelong Passions to Lifetime Achievements

Season 1 · Episode 9

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 • Duration 21:32

In Episode 9 of All Lit Up! we're chatting with Posy Simmonds, long-time cartoonist for The Guardian and a major figure in British comics who has influenced generations of artists.

Posy's landmark characters include reworkings of female characters from 19th century literature Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, both of which began as serialised cartoons published by The Guardian and were later published as graphic novels, before being turned into feature films.

In 1997, Famous Fred, the Joanna Quinn short film adapted from Posy's children's book, Fred, was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and won the British Academy Children's Award for Animation the same year. The film was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1998.

Join Posy and Gilly as they discuss Posy's lifetime of storytelling, from her early love of creating comic strips right through to her retrospective exhibition in Paris's Centre Pompidou and winning the prestigious Grand Prix at Angoulême in 2024, the first British comic creator to ever win the prestigious award.

Plus, we hear Posy's short film recommendation, Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

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Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou is the 16-minute debut film from Spanish and Mexican director, Luis Buñuel, who teamed up with artist, Salvador Dalí for this surrealist, dream-like narrative that has both shocked and influenced audiences ever since its release in 1929.

Emily Brundige | Building Communities and Kickstarting Projects

Season 1 · Episode 10

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 • Duration 20:15

Emily Brundige and Gilly Fogg discuss the power of self belief, the meaning of 'Li'l Toughy', and how community building and crowdfunding can hold the key to success - when deployed thoughfully.

Plus we hear Emily's short film choice, the 2019 short film Goldie - written and directed by Emily and which was later adapted into a series on Apple TV+.

Goldie

A giant girl feels out of scale in her colorful little town, only to realize she takes up just the right amount of space.

Watch Goldie here!

Emily Brundige

Emily Brundige is the creator of GOLDIE on Apple TV+ and the mind behind the cult-favorite YouTube series Pubertina, with over a decade of experience crafting original, heartfelt, and slightly oddball stories for kids and families. She served as Story Editor on Hilda Season 3 and Head Writer on Big Nate. Emily recently self-published A Guide to Developing Animated Shows, praised by animation legends Joe Brumm (Bluey), Jorge Gutierrez (El Tigre), and Chris Viscardi (The Adventures of Pete & Pete). Her latest project, Strawberry Vampire, is a Kickstarter-backed pilot animatic about a family of strawberry-draining vampires trying to blend into American suburbia.

Find Emily and Li'l Toughy on Substack here.

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All Lit Up! is a Lighthouse Studios production.

Visit lighthousestudios.ie or follow the studio on social media to stay up to date with all news and the latest episodes.

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