Passion Pictures


Passion Pictures is an animation production company established by Andrew Ruhemann in 1987. The company has studios in London, Melbourne, Paris, Toronto and New York City.

Film production

The company's core business is in commercial and animation output, which includes work for Cartoon Network, music videos for Gorillaz, and the Compare the Market.com commercial campaign featuring Aleksandr Orlov. Passion Australia produced The Lost Thing, directed by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2011.
The department's first film, One Day in September, won an Academy Award in 2000. They have since been involved in the 2013 Oscar-winning Searching for Sugar Man , 2015's Listen to Me Marlon and 2016's Oscar-nominated Pear Cider and Cigarettes.
In 2017, the company produced the Netflix docu-series Five Came Back based on the book by Mark Harris.They also work on 101 Dalmatian Street.
Passion Animation Studios created several of the promotional cinematics for the computer game League of Legends.