The Penguin Who Couldn't Swim

  • Tom Rourke

A short animation funded by the BBC and the BFI. It was screened on BBC 4 in October 2018. It is an animation about a disabled penguin who lives on a rocky island in the southern seas, where she feels isolated from the rest of her colony. She is inventive, resourceful and tough but frustrated about what she cannot do. Until one day she makes a discovery. A story about disability, made by a disabled animator.