Cosmonots

Animated Series

Somewhere behind the iron curtain, as the regime crumbles around them, a mismatched trio of cosmonauts wait to be blasted into space. It’s a glorious people’s socialist workplace comedy that’s out of this world - or it will be if they can just get the damn rocket to work.

Cosmonots is an existential animated sitcom about three people never making it to space. The Sit is a crumbling Cosmodrome in a carefully unspecified Communist state. The Com blends bleak absurdism with workplace comedy, adds a dash of nerd culture and serves it up ice-cold in a leaky Soviet vessel. It’s a dangerously unstable comic fuel, as indebted to Franz Kafka or Samuel Beckett as it is to The Office and BoJack Horseman.

Creators

Simon Lord’s debut feature film Jellyfish premiered at Tribeca and picked up awards in Edinburgh, Rome, and Dinard, before being released theatrically to glowing reviews from the FT, Sun, and Evening Standard. His second feature Above The Clouds premiered at Austin Film Festival and is being released on VOD by Gravitas. Simon’s upcoming projects include Execution Dependent, a black comedy with Asa Butterfield, Penelope Wilton, and Maxine Peake.

Jac Clinch is a BAFTA nominated director, animator and writer. After completing a degree in Illustration Animation at Kingston University he did his MA inDirecting Animation at the NFTS. His debut animated short, The Alan Dimension, premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA. He is currently directing animation for television in collaboration with BlinkInk.