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Guest of Honour

Phil Tippett at Imagine 2024


We’re very proud of this year’s Guest of Honour, director / animator / visual effects wizard Phil Tippett!

Tippett will be receiving a well-deserved Career Achievement Award at Imagine, and he will be joining us on stage for a Career Talk about his decades of work on films like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Star Wars and Jurassic Park. Tickets for this talk are available through the button below.

For an even deeper dive into Tippett’s biggest inspirations and his own contributions to fantastic cinema, we’re screening stop motion classic The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers – which Tippett created the arachnids for – as well as his own masterpiece Mad God. A documentary about him – Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters – is also part of the programme. Tippett will be introducing most of these screenings himself.

Career Talk: Tickets

About Imagine’s Guest of Honour

Every year, Imagine invites a genre hero to the festival as our Guest of Honour. From director to costume designers and from producers to special effects artists: we love honouring the people behind our favourite films, books and games. The Guest of Honour receives a Career Achievement Award at the festival and usually also hosts a Career Talk. On top of that, we often show a few of the guest’s favourite films as well as films they’ve worked on. Previous Guests of Honour include Roger Corman, Paul Verhoeven, Tim Burton, Rutger Hauer, Lindy Hemming, Neil Jordan, Dario Argento, Terry Gilliam, Wes Craven, Udo Kier, Ray Harryhausen and Dick Maas.