Joseph Wallace
- Known for
- Directing
Joseph Wallace is a BAFTA Cyrmu nominated animation and puppetry director. His award-winning work spans commercials, viral campaigns, music videos, short films and sequences for feature films and television. Described as ‘one of the UK’s most extraordinary stop-motion directors’ by London International Animation Festival, his work has been praised for its cinematic quality and unique aesthetic. His 2017 music video for Sparks was named one of the ten best British animated music videos of all time by Anim18 and led to Wallace creating stop motion sequences for Edgar Wright’s documentary feature ‘The Sparks Brothers’. Described by Mark Kermode as ‘dark wonders’, Wallace’s segments were nominated for Best Animation at the Cinema Eye Honours in New York in 2022. His celebrated short ‘Salvation Has No Name’, won various Grand Prix at top animation festivals, was long listed for both a BIFA and a BAFTA and received the Jury Special Mention for Unifrance Prix du Court Metrage at Cannes 2023. Joseph is a BAFTA member and talks regularly about animation and film at festivals and universities around the world.
Filmography
The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry 2025
Director
The Letter 2023
Director, Production Design
Salvation Has No Name 2022
Director, Production Design, Writer
La Forêt Sauvage 2014
Director, Production Design
Natural Disaster 2014
Writer, Director
The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling 2011
Director, Modeling, Writer, Animation, Production Design
Curiouser & Curiouser 2008
Director, Production Design
The Rootman 2026
as The Rootman, as The Rabbit, Technical Advisor, Story Consultant
The Sparks Brothers 2021
Animation
Credits from TMDB.