Hello Gruffalo’s Child!

December 12th, 2011

Above, a little postcard from the upcoming “The Gruffalo’s Child”, directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschoetter and produced by our friends at Magic Light Pictures and yours truly. Yesterday we had the pleasure of a beautiful team preview at the Curzon, Mayfair in London and we would like to thank all of you who came along and celebrated with us and especially our friends at MLP for putting together this special day. You can see “The Gruffalo’s Child” this Christmas Day, Dec. 25th on BBC 1.

Princess’ Painting tours the world

July 22nd, 2011

Soi’s shortfilm “Princess’ Painting” will have quite a few screenings at worlwide festivals in the upcoming months.
Don’t miss it if you are planning on going to either one of these events:

* SICAF – July, 20th (Korea) section «TV-Film»
* Anima Mundi – July, 15th – 31st (Brasil)
* Nueva Mirada – September, 1st – 7th (Argentina), section «Sweet Dreams»
* Fantoche – September, 6th – 11th (Switzerland), section «Kinderfilme»
* KROK – September, 24th – October, 3rd (Ukraine)
* Ottawa – September, 21th – 25th (Canada), Television Animation for Children Category

Annecy !

June 3rd, 2011

This year we will be showing our latest short “Princess’ Painting” at the Animation Festival
in Annecy. Luckily Ben Bocquelet’s “The Amazing World of Gumball” is part of the same
programme with the episode “The Quest”. Don’t miss the opportunity to watch both at these
dates:

Tuesday 7th June: 10h30 Décavision / Salle 1

Wednesday 8th June: 14h00 MJC Novel

Thursday 9th June: 16h00 Décavision / Salles 3&4

Friday 10th June: 14h00 Salle Pierre Lamy

And catch up with Soi’s director Klaus Morschheuser who will be present at the festival!
Nous vous souhaitons une bonne projection!

Soi at ITFS.

April 19th, 2011

Our latest shortfilm “Princess’ Painting”, directed by Klaus Morschheuser and Johannes Weiland, will be screened at this year’s ”International Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart” on the following five occasions:

May, 4th
11:00 am at Metropol 1, KinderSpezial
May, 5th
10.00 am at Metropol 1, KinderSpezial
May, 6th
08.30 & 10.00 am at Metropol 1, KinderSpezial
May, 7th
01.00 pm at Gloria 2, BW-Rolle

May, 7th
02.30 pm at Metropol 1, competition T.F.K

Both the film’s directors will be present at the festival and we’re all looking forward to the event. Hope to see you all you all in Stuttgart!

New York, New York.

March 30th, 2011

We’re delighted to hear that “The Little Boy and the Beast” has been awarded as Best Animated Short Film at the New York International Children’s Film Festival. The NYICFF states as its mission “to promote intelligent, passionate, provocative cinematic works for ages 3–18 and to help define a more compelling film for kids.” We’re very happy  to have been been a part of this. Thanks to the audience and the jury!

Also the film won the German Emil Award for outstanding TV programmes for children and got the special jury commendation at the Heart of Gold Gold Festival, Australia.

Upcoming events that will screen the film are:

Dresden Filmfestival (Germany, April, 12th to 16th)

Aspen Shortfest (USA, April, 10th to 15th)

Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival (Canada,  April, 5th to 17)

Citrus-Cel-Animation (USA, April, 8th to 10th)

Anirmau (Spain, April, 26th to 30th)

“The Amazing World of Gumball” is coming! (to CARTOON NETWORK, Mai 2nd 2011.)

March 10th, 2011

A first sneak peek of CN’s upcoming show “The Amazing World of Gumball” has just been released on youtube. Created by Ben Bocquelet, Gumball was produced by Dandelion Studios Ltd , Boulder Media Ltd and Studio Soi.