# animate! › Films & latest commissions

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## Films

animate! questions received notions of animation practice. We believe that animation is not, and indeed never has been, exclusively driven by frame-by-frame process but by wider notions of synthesis. We support innovative content and 'agenda' as well as new forms, processes & techniques.

animate! is 'technology-independent'. We give equal commissioning consideration to celluloid, tape and digitally-based proposals, in pure or hybrid form.

### 6 new commissions

These six UK-based projects are animate! tv's slate for 2006. They are funded by Arts Council England and Channel 4 for completion in summer 2007 and broadcast by Channel 4 in the autumn.

| Column 1 | Column 2 |
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| [![End of the Street, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillsmedium/endofthestreet01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/films/endofthestreet/all) | [End of the Street](https://animate.org.uk/films/endofthestreet/all) Andy Martin |
| [![Flat Earth, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillsmedium/flatearth01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/films/flatearth/all) | [Flat Earth](https://animate.org.uk/films/flatearth/all) Thomson & Craighead |
| [![Francis, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillsmedium/francis01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/films/francis/all) | [Francis](https://animate.org.uk/films/francis/all) Let Me Feel Your Finger First |
| [![Magnetic Movie, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillsmedium/magneticmovie01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/films/magneticmovie/all) | [Magnetic Movie](https://animate.org.uk/films/magneticmovie/all) Semiconductor |
| [![Round-Up, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillsmedium/roundup01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/films/roundup/all) | [Round-Up](https://animate.org.uk/films/roundup/all) Mark Simon Hewis |
| [![The Tongue of the Hidden, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillsmedium/tongueofthehidden01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/films/tongueofthehidden/all) | [The Tongue of the Hidden](https://animate.org.uk/films/tongueofthehidden/all) David Alexander Anderson |