Allan Dodgeon

Allan Dodgeon is an award-winning British director, writer, producer, and composer. With over three decades of experience across media, theatre, and television, he has recently gained widespread industry recognition for directing Kingdom Games, hailed as the world’s first completed generative AI-assisted animated feature film.

Key Creative Work & Filmography

• Animation Innovation: He directed Kingdom Games (2026), a groundbreaking Pixar-style family adventure produced alongside Digikore Studios. The film made a major impact at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival for demonstrating how generative AI tools can streamline animation workflows. Recognised for his groundbreaking work with anime and manga, he is also directing the upcoming anime series Black Vein Rising.
• Film & Television: Dodgeon’s extensive writing, directing, and producing credits include the award-winning animation Carnival (2025), the live action feature film Spirit of the Forest (2025), the drama series Addict, and the international TV series A Thief in Dakar.
• Music Composition: Allan has written an extensive number of songs for artists and composed tracks for film and television. Under his latest musical project KOKORO, he composes instrumental, cinematic, and Japanese-inspired music tailored for movement and figure skating, releasing singles such as Umi no Koe (Voice of the Sea) and Kaze no Kioku (Memory of the Wind).
• Industry Training: He co-founded CineProLab, an education and training platform designed to teach creators industry-tested, AI-driven filmmaking methods. A huge advocate for developing next generation tools alongside human talent, never replacing humans.

Career Background

Dodgeon began his career as a child actor before transitioning behind the camera. Over the years, he has consulted on marketing strategies for major Hollywood studios, managed campaigns for London’s West End theatre productions, and built several digital news and radio platforms. He also founded a major UK literacy initiative that successfully engaged over 2 million young readers.

He is also an author, with numerous books published under his own name and a pseudonym, spanning fiction and filmmaking handbooks, practical training manuals for creators learning the craft of film.

Allan has been fascinated with figure skating since he was a teenager, having once been part of a synchronised skating team. That lifelong connection to the ice continues through ADEPIC Music and KOKORO, original music written with performance, emotion and competition programmes in mind.