Producer | UK

Cara Speller is a Grammy-nominated and Emmy, BAFTA and Oscar winning producer who serves on the Executive Committee of the Short Films and Feature Animation branch at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 2020 Cara teamed up with author and artist Charlie Mackesy to form a new film and television production company, NoneMore Productions. NoneMore’s first project was an animated short film adaptation of Mackesy’s book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, co-produced with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. The 30-minute short features hand-drawn animation capturing the look and spirit of the book and involves a team of artists from 20 countries working alongside Mackesy to bring the project to the big screen. It went on to win 4 Annies, the BAFTA and the Oscar in 2023.

Prior to forming NoneMore, Cara was best known for her work with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett on their animated band Gorillaz with responsibility for the visual side of the band – producing their music videos, awards performances, press, website, games, merchandise and tour visuals across three albums and sold out world tours, as well as the Chinese opera Monkey: Journey to the West with Manchester International Festival, The Chatelet Theatre in Paris and Staatsoper Berlin..

In 2013 Cara set up the film and TV unit for Passion Pictures, developing and producing a slate of projects including Robert Valley’s Oscar-nominated and Annie-winning film Pear Cider and Cigarettes; the Emmy-nominated Marvel’s Rocket & Groot and Marvel’s Ant Man; Zima Blue and the Emmy-winning Ice from Tim Miller and David Fincher’s critically acclaimed anthology series Love, Death and Robots for Netflix; and 101 Dalmatian Street for Disney Channel – a 50 episode series based on the much-loved 1961 classic film.