Industry Animation, Film Number of employees 70 at peak Headquarters London, United Kingdom Type of business Privately held | Products Animated feature films Website Bill Melendez Inc Founded 1969 | |
Key people Steven C. Melendez, Kaj Melendez, Mirza-Javed Founders Bill Melendez, Steven C. Melendez | ||
Melendez Films is a film animation studio. It was founded in 1969 as a London subsidiary of Bill Melendez Productions (best known for producing the Peanuts specials) by Steven C. Melendez (son of animator Bill Melendez).
The studio produced the ambitious animated feature film Dick Deadeye, based on the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1979 the company produced a one-and-a-half-hour television special based on the C.S. Lewis classic book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the film subsequently won two Emmy Awards for "best animated film" and "script adaptation". Melendez Films has also produced many series for television including "Fred Basset" and "The Perishers", as well as such educational shorts as Molly and the Skywalkerz To Love Me for PBS.
The company continues to create commercials for France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece and Sweden as well as the UK and U.S. working for clients such as Scandinavian Airlines, Schick, British Rail, Colgate, Ferrero, and the British Government.