Our Vision

Established in 2005, Ex-Animo Foundation® promotes the advancement of education among young people in the creative arts, film and music, and provides access to these areas by enabling young creative people to work with mentors and established trusts. The Foundation provides grants and bursaries to individuals aged between 18 – 25 as well as funding for media/arts educational facilities.

Ex-Animo works closely with well renowned arts bodies to realise these aims for the benefit of talented young people. Ex-Animo truly believes that young people need positive encouragement to explore and develop their creativity.

Film Fund

The fund in collaboration with the Roundhouse, as part of its Young Creatives programme, has seen many young promising filmmakers emerge and go on to win various film awards. We are proud to be co-founders of this project which started in 2007…read more

International Films

Two exciting projects, as part of our TLVision initiative, took us to Israel to document extraordinary people, life and art as well as history. In 2004 a compassionate and talented crew went to South Africa to highlight the plight of HIV/AIDS orphans – its first screening was at the Houses of Parliament in 2005.

Music Fund

Music bursaries and grants are our starting point and we hope to expand this area of the creative arts to promising young composers and musicians…read more

Extra Support

Various projects have caught our attention and allowed Ex-Animo to develop and nurture as a funding charity, devoted to the creative arts…read more

What they say

"Ex-Animo has allowed me to experiment and help find my style as a filmmaker, which I can take on to further shorts and features in the future."

Guy Larsen,

"Having the support of the Online Film Fund completely changed the film I was able to make, both in terms of funding and the recognition it gave me."

Libby Knowles,

Nursing The Nation

"... proud creators of Girls Who Read, a spoken word film that has reached over 3 million hits on YouTube, have been honoured in two categories at the Webby Awards and won two Lovie Awards..."

Mark Grist & Guy Larsen,

"I was lucky enough to have my latest short film, Jake the Magnificent, part funded by the Roundhouse as part of their Online Film Fund."

Simon Wade,

"...had the involvement and ideas of the many talented people I met through using the Online Film Fund."

Matty Crawford,

PINK

"Making ERGO has been an incredible learning process, seeing it develop from script through to the edit has taught me a huge amount..."

Alice Sephton,

For more information on the Film Fund and Music FundContact Us