It was either very late, or very early. Tessa and Sascha Hartmann had just screened their debut film, Sir Billi, for the first time at Sonoma International Film Festival in April 2012. They were ...

Sir Billi From Scotland with love comes the most peculiar project of Sean Connery's career, a woefully anemic animated feature that counts the actor's trademark brogue as its most marketable asset.

Scotland's first animated feature film, starring Sir Sean Connery, is to make its international debut next month. The former 007 star came out of retirement in 2006 to voice the title role in Sir ...

Sonoma, CA (March 19, 2012) — Sir Billi, the first full-length animated feature to be produced entirely in Scotland, will get its first international screening at the 15th annual Sonoma ...

Sir Billi is not overtly heroic, but gets the job done. "He said that his characters are always heroic, Bond is the hero," says Sascha Hartmann. "And suddenly you have exactly the opposite.

The story is based around Sir Billi the vet, and a goat that thinks it's a dog, who set out on a highland adventure to rescue a rabbit. It is due for completion in the summer of next year.

Sascha Hartmann’s Sir Billi is able to boast being the very first, computer animated feature, to be created and produced entirely in Scotland. However on this evidence, there’s a very good ...

Hartmanns to publish five songs for ‘Sir Billi’ Universal Music Publishing has struck a deal with the husband-and-wife creative team of Sascha and Tessa Hartmann -- who have spent five years ...

In this video, Sir Sean talks on how he recorded his voice-overs for Glasgow Animation down in the Bahamas (hey, its Bond) and how he told Disney to get lost when they offered him a “pittance” for a ...

Sir Billi will screen at the 1930s Renaissance-style Sebastiani Theatre April 13. “I’m excited to be a part of this incredible film and Scotland’s first animated feature,” said Connery.

The Hartmanns still have Sir Billi posters and cardboard cutouts at home. One of their daughters took a DVD home to show to her friends recently. “To me, we never flopped,” says Sascha.