The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide: The Essential Guide to Japanese Animated Cinema

About Jake CunninghamMichael Leader

Jake Cunningham is a writer and producer working in film and audio. At Little Dot Studios he works across podcasts and video essay production with a focus on film. As well as Ghibliotheque he has produced podcasts with Channel 4 Curzon Cinemas and the British Independent Film Awards; he has appeared on air for the BBC World Service; and has written and voiced video essays for the BBC and Little White Lies. He has written about film for The i BFI NME and more. His first animated short film as writer and producer made with BFI Network will be released in 2021. He lives in London with his partner and a small dog. Michael Leader is a writer and broadcaster whose writing has appeared in Sight & Sound and Little White Lies and whose voice has appeared on podcasts and radio ranging from Ghibliotheque and Truth & Movies to BBC Front Row and BBC Radio 5. For several years he was Editorial Director for Film4 Online and Commissioning Editor of the BBC Arts/iPlayer series Inside Cinema and Inside Games for which he wrote and produced short-form documentaries about among other things Studio Ghibli. He lives in Sussex with his partner and a small child.