Sara Barbas is a Bristol-based director, writer, animator and creative producer with an international track record. Sara has been working in the Animation industry since 1997 in different roles, having mainly freelanced for Aardman Animations and the BBC. She has an MA in Animation and an MA in Interactive Media from the University of the West of England. Her graduation film for the MA in Animation has been awarded internationally.
In July 2012 Sara graduated with distinction from the MA in Scriptwriting for Radio, Theatre, Television and Film at Bath Spa University. Sara has developed her own series at Aardman’s and writes for the worldwide-distributed stopmotion series Shaun the Sheep.
Presently Sara is working on her new animated short – Final Call - with big international partners. She first developed this short film at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, within the setting of the Open Workshop artistic residency. Sara has also recently launched Stripeybird a new animation and mixed media studio in Bristol.

Sara strikes a balance between developing, writing and directing her own works and accepting commissions as a writer, director or creative producer.

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