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Award-winning music & screen studio

CURIOUS DREAMERS

Music-led stories for screen, stage and beyond. Made with care, felt in the bones.

We make work that means something.
Music, storytelling, wonder.

The best work invites you in. We start with music and story, we collaborate with wonderful people, and we make things we believe in. Simple as that.

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Projects in motion

CBeebies · BBC · RTS Award-winning

Hushabye
Lullabye

Award-winning animated series for CBeebies. Created by Sacha Kyle, with music by Giles Lamb. Full of lullabies, cuddles, and gentle wonder. Loved worldwide.

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Animated Series · In Development

Dillie Dally's
Dreamland

A brand new animated series growing from the Hushabye world. Dillie Dally returns with new adventures, new music, and the same gentle magic that families loved.

Dream on →
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Animated Series · In Development

Teatrino

A delightfully bonkers animated series set inside a theatre. No dialogue, just pure songs and music, surrealism, imagination and play.

Enter the theatre →
02
Animated Series · Screen Scotland

WndrKlub

An animated series and film making philosophy, a living art gallery of the everyday, inviting children to ask themselves one question: how do you see the world?

Discover →
03
Film · Immersive · In Dev

The Last
Leviathan

An immersive film exploring whale song, folk music, and the beauty of listening. A collaboration with Mairi Campbell and Alex South.

Go deeper →
04
Film · Installation · In Dev

En / The
Red Thread
赤い糸

A sound and film project rooted in Cowden Japanese Garden, Scotland. An album of new music recorded with Japanese and Scottish musicians. Patient, beautiful work.

Walk the path →
2023

Stop Motion · Screen Scotland · BFI · Multi Award-winning

Distance to the Moon

Created by Sacha Kyle, music by Giles Lamb. Made with Eyebolls. Edinburgh International Film Festival, Athens Animation Festival, Glasgow International and many more.

Curious Dreamers

A Glasgow-based music and screen studio. We make animated series, immersive films, sound installations and creative education projects. Storytelling and music sit at the heart of everything we do.

Head of Curiosity

Sacha Kyle

Sacha is an award-winning multi-genre television, film and theatre director, writer, and creative producer with 20+ years' experience across animation, live action, comedy, drama, music and children's, working with BBC Drama, BBC Comedy, BBC Radio and CBeebies. A BAFTA member and WFTV Fellow, she was named an International Children's Media Fellow by the LSX Jacobs Foundation and New America for her contributions to children's media and early years development.

She plays a key role in nurturing new talent as a Screen Ireland assessor and mentor for the Children's Media Association (New York/International) and the UK's Manipulate Festival. As teacher, play therapist and education consultant, Sacha has extensive experience working with children and young people across the UK and internationally as Creative Artistic Director at the International Schools Theatre Association.

Her acclaimed animated series Hushabye Lullabye (CBeebies/BBC) has won two RTS Awards and reached audiences worldwide via YOUKU (China), NRK (Norway), YLE (Denmark), Daekyo Kids (South Korea), and TVO (Canada). The brand includes a picture book (Goodnight Dreams) and albums with over 10 million streams.

Chief Dreamer

Giles Lamb

Giles is a highly experienced composer, sound designer, and educator with 25 years of professional experience across film, television, games, installations, and museum projects. He was External Examiner for the Glasgow School of Art's Sound for the Moving Image Masters for 5 years, and a guest lecturer at the National Film and Television School, University of Glasgow, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Glasgow School of Art. With a BSc in Neuroscience and a Master's in Psychology, Giles brings a unique understanding of how sound, emotion, and perception interact in storytelling and audience experience.

Notable work includes sound design on Nicolas Winding Refn's 2009 feature Valhalla Rising, featuring innovative improvising ensemble recordings that shaped the film's distinctive sound world. The soundtrack won multiple awards and remains highly regarded. Giles has composed music for documentaries (Slow Trains with Griff Rhys Jones, Empires of Silver, Holy Hell), game cinematics (including the Cannes Golden Lion–winning Dead Island trailer), animations, and commercials.

He has released ten studio albums exploring modern classical, ambient, and cinematic sound, blending acoustic, synthesised, and found materials into rich, immersive soundscapes.

Sacha Kyle · Creative Director Giles Lamb · Composer & Sound Designer BAFTA Member WFTV Fellow LSX International Fellow RTS Award-winning
Screen Scotland BFI CBeebies · BBC RTS Awards BAFTA

Let's make
something together.

Based in Glasgow. Happy to travel.

hello@curiousdreamers.com

73 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow G1 1NY