Robert Cullen
Manager: Tarik Heitmann, MANAGER: SAM SLEIMAN
Robert Cullen is the Emmy nominated creative director and founder of Boulder Media. Since its inception in 2000, Boulder has grown to become one of Ireland’s largest animation studios.
Robert has worked as a Director and Animation Director on shows such as Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, The Amazing World of Gumball and Transformers.
He was instrumental in the reboot of 80’s classic, Danger Mouse for BBC and went on to direct 72 episodes. Danger Mouse became BBC’s highest rating children’s show and received critical praise.
In 2015 he wrote, designed and directed the award winning ‘Fresh Cut Grass’ which won several international awards and was long listed for the Oscars for ‘Best Animated Short.’
In 2021 Robert received the Murakami Award for outstanding achievement in the field of animation. Previous recipients include Jimmy Murakami, Don Bluth and Tomm Moore.
Robert has recently directed his first feature film, based on My Little Pony, to be released on Netflix in 2021. It is also the first CG movie to be produced in Ireland.
Along with his directing roles, he has also been the creative supervisor on several independent short films including, soon to be released ‘Momento Mori’, an animated gothic horror short.
He is currently writing and illustrating his first graphic novel.