About us
We have a wealth of experience making films in some of the most challenging production environments in the world. The Mosaic producers have worked extensively in Russia, the Middle East, India, the Far East and in Africa. We have had offices in both Moscow and Jerusalem and have made films in most parts of the world. We have particular expertise in working with film-makers native to the country in which a particular project is located. Mosaic is proud to have worked with filmmakers from Russia, Pakistan, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Israel, Palestine, Nigeria, Malaysia, Japan, and every country in the original European Union.
ABOUT US
Mosaic Films, led by CEO Andy Glynne, is a production company with over 20 years experience producing award-winning content. Mosaic has always cared about using film in innovative ways to make a difference and to bring about change. Whether it's our feature documentaries, animation, or short form digital content, each arena we’ve worked in has led not only to award-winning output, but a wider, more important impact. This is something we remain proud of, as we continue to push the boundaries of creative content.
Our work showcases the power of film to tell compelling stories that always engage, sometimes inspire and occasionally bring about real lasting change.
From the beginning, Mosaic’s focus was on making compelling factual content, from the RTS award-winning ‘To Courtney with Love’ to ‘Diana: The People’s Princess’. Mosaic Films was one of the first companies to use digital technologies to make low cost, mass-observational documentaries, often with multiple filmmakers spread across the world.
In 2003, Mosaic Films created the original ‘Animated Minds’ series for Channel 4, a collection of short-form animated documentaries on mental health, the first of its kind on UK television. It was a risk: Andy Glynne’s training as a clinical psychologist meant that he knew the subject matter implicitly, and the issues which needed conveying, and had the trust of contributors to tell him their story. Using animations was new, both for Mosaic and for this type of subject matter, and our aim was to capture one of the most profound, yet elusive parts of the conversation around mental health: what it can feel like to experience genuine mental distress.
The series was a success, winning an RTS Award and a Grierson nomination, and following this success, Mosaic Films went on to make a dozen more series of animated documentaries with a variety of subject matters. Topics have included teen mental health (‘My Troubled Mind’), the refugee experience ( ‘Seeking Refuge’), postnatal depression (‘Stories of Postnatal Depression’), as well as the impact of childhood illness on young people (the BAFTA-winning ‘I Can’t Go To School Today’). This output not only defined Mosaic as one of the premier animation-documentary companies, but it has earned the company three BAFTAs, 2 Royal Television Society Awards and many other awards.
Our animations have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, opened film festivals in Toronto, London and Edinburgh and Los Angeles, and gained notable followings and endorsement from the likes of Stpehen Fry, and other leading influencers in the field of mental health. Most importantly, Mosaic measured the impact of these films; they were making a difference by helping shift attitudes and build awareness as an important communication tool.
Mosaic has worked all around the world, often helping nurture local filmmaking talent. We’re committed to diversity and to making sure that we look after all our contributors in front of the camera, as well as those behind the camera. We do all we can to make each and every production a mentally healthy one.
Mosaic’s slate of animated documentaries continues to grow, leading to a separate animation department within the company that pushes innovation, all while using evidence-based theory of change to help these films play a role in really impacting behaviour. Meanwhile (and in the studio next door!) Mosaic continued its output of documentaries, including 'Out of Thin Air' for Netflix and BBC - a drama-documentary about a compelling miscarriage of justice - and 'Paloma Faith : As I Am', a musical documentary with a difference that won critical acclaim.
THE TEAM
ANDY GLYNNE | CEO
Andy is a triple-BAFTA award-winning filmmaker, a producer, and an author. Originally trained as a clinical psychologist, he went on to create the UK’s national documentary organisation, DFG - The Documentary Filmmakers Group - and now runs Mosaic Films, a multi-award winning production company specialising in both documentaries and animation. Andy is the former Chairman of the European Documentary Network, and often works as a consultant to numerous organisations and broadcasters around the world in both the areas of factual production and mental health & well-being. He has produced and directed over 100 films, which have won him numerous awards including three BAFTA's and two RTS Awards. Andy is also the author of ten children's books, as well as non-fiction books on filmmaking. In between producing and writing, Andy was CEO of the charity One World Media, and more recently the Programme Director for the Film and TV Charity, running a behaviour change campaign aimed at mitigating a mental health crisis in the Film and TV Industry
ANITA NORFOLK | PRODUCER
British/Norwegian Anita is a producer specialising in animation and creative documentaries. She has been with Mosaic since 2014, and was the development producer on OUT OF THIN AIR (Netflix, BBC Storyville), and the series producer on the award-winning WHEN I WORRY ABOUT THINGS. Anita is also the founder and managing director of Folk Film, an independent production company in Bergen, Norway. It most recently co-produced the award-winning documentaries ‘Motherland’ (winner CPH:DOX 2023) and ‘How to Save a Dead Friend’ (Cannes, winner DOC:NYC 2022). Prior to joining Mosaic, Anita worked across both documentary and fiction, most notably directing and producing a segment for Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis’ feature film ‘Cloud Atlas’. She also has considerable experience in animation production, working for Rockstar Games on best-selling titles ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’, ‘L.A Noire’ and ‘Red Dead Redemption’. She has an MsC in film studies from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in documentary directing from Edinburgh College of Art. She is an alumni of Berlinale Talents and a 2023 Eurodoc participant.
SALVADOR MALDONADO | DIRECTOR OF ANIMATION
Salvador graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2004, and has since directed and worked on numerous feature length and short films, winning two BAFTA’s for this work, and nominations for a further two. Working with Andy Glynne, he was Director of Animation on the BAFTA winning “Over and Over and Over Again” and worked on the development of the feature length animation, Peter and the Wolf, as well as the award-winning short animation, Night Island. He was a Director of Animation on Mosaic's BAFTA winning series “Seeking Refuge”, and Co-Director of Mosaic’s BAFTA Winning “I Can’t Go To School Today” for the BBC.
Natalia Pérez | Animation Producer
Natalia is an animation producer with over a decade’s experience. Originally trained in graphic design and illustration, she moved into animation, becoming a producer for short form animated content across both 2D and 3D projects. She has worked for a range of animation studios and creative agencies both in the UK and internationally, with roles including delivering media campaigns and educational shorts for high-profile companies such as the BBC, Cartoon Network and Apple TV, and some of her credits include “The Amazing World of Gumball”, and the feature film “Spirit”. Natalia has been a lead animation producer at Mosaic looking after their short-form production slate, as well as some of the long-form development.
Elisabeth Watts | Producer
Elisabeth has worked as a Producer for Mosaic Films for the past few years, taking a lead on our animated documentary output as well as much of our short-form digital output. Prior to joining Mosaic, Elisabeth worked for Western Edge Pictures working on the critically-acclaimed PREVENGE (2016), Amazon’s docu-series PISTORIUS (2018) and Billie Piper’s directorial debut RARE BEASTS (2019). Elisabeth has a background which includes screenwriting: she attended NFTS’s screenwriting course, TV Drama: Creating the Bible and her short film work has made her an Atlanta Film Festival Semifinalist, Hollyshorts Semifinalist and Screencraft Semifinalist.
DAN ENGLAND | WRITER
Daniel is a writer with Mosaic Films. He has worked on a lot of the output for BBC Bitesize, including 73 animated Explainer Videos across English, Maths and Science, seven animated films for GCSE English Literature, 9 films for GCSE Biology, 13 films for KS3 Religion and a quick- fire animated series of irreverently narrated History animations aimed at 8-11 year olds. Other projects include ‘What’s Blood Got To Do With It?’ - four short, animated documentaries for Channel 4, in association with The National Blood Service.
COLIN LUKE | CONSultant
Colin is the founder of Mosaic Films and an award-winning producer/director. He has worked in television for over 30 years and has made numerous international and domestic series, single films and one-off specials, working with the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and various American stations. Colin has lectured on digital production throughout Europe, served as the deputy Vice Chairman of BAFTA and is currently on the board of the Directors and Producers Rights Society. Colin was one of the pioneers of using the first camcorders in television documentaries. He was responsible for the hugely successful and reputed ‘Mosaic Method’ of creative documentary filmmaking in which scores of new and emerging filmmakers would film narratives overseas, guided by Mosaic Films, which Colin then directed in the cutting room.