Anthony Silverston, partner at Triggerfish Animation Studios – South Africa.
Anthony Silverston is Creative Director and partner at Triggerfish Animation Studios. Triggerfish is currently in production on an anthology of ten shorts for Disney+ for which Anthony is co-EP. He is also EP on Mama K's Team 4 (Netflix) and Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes (eOne, Frogbox, Disney Jnr).
In 2015, he oversaw the Story Lab, an initiative where 4 feature films and 4 TV series were chosen to be developed after a continent-wide search that drew almost 1400 entries.
He is director and co-writer of Khumba, which premiered in competition at Annecy International Animation Festival 2013. Khumba also screened at Durban, Toronto and Brisbane Film Festivals and won two Gold Panda Awards in China. The script, co-written with Raffaella Delle Donne, won a major UK scriptwriting competition in 2006 and was the first animation selected for No Borders Co-Production Market in its 30-year history.