Ivan Mactaggart

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Ivan Mactaggart is a British film producer best known for his 2017 production Loving Vincent , [1] [2] which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards [3] and a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Animated Film. [4]

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Ivan Mactaggart has previously worked for several production companies (BBC Film, BBC Worldwide, Baker Street Media Finance, BMS Finance, [5] the latter being where he worked on the production of Moon and Made in Dagenham ). [6] Since 2010, he was a partner at David Parfitt's Trademark Films [6] before setting up the film and TV production company Cambridge Picture Company in 2018. [7] In 2019, Cambridge Picture joined the production of the period drama series The Galapagos Affair. [8] In 2020, he bought options on nine short stories by Mike Carey to create a TV drama series. [9] In 2024, Cambridge Picture announced the production of Niall Johnson's feature film Humanoid. [10]

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