I heard the news today, oh boy...

Well actually yesterday. RTL news came to take a look in our studio for a small item about the Holland Animation Festival and Dutch animation.

Click on the image below to watch the item (we come in at 0:50):

Anikey @ HAFF 2009

Tomorrow the Holland Animation Festival 2009 starts and our film 'Paul and the Dragon' will feature in 2 competitions; the competition Commissioned films 1 and the competition Dutch Animation Audience Award 3.
If you want to catch the film, it will be shown in different theatres every day of the festival:

5 november, competition commissioned films, 14:30 in Kikker
6 november, competition Dutch Animation Audience Award, 20:30 in Movies 1
7 november, competition Dutch Animation Audience Award, 14:30 in Movies 2
8 november, competition commissioned films, 14:30 in Hoogt 2

We are the children...

While this picture may look like we recorded a Christmas single to raise money for a good cause this Monday, we actually had a lot of fun recording some temporary scratch voice acting at Bob Kommer for the feature film we're currently setting up.

il Luster & Anikey in the press

This weeks VPRO TV guide brings an interview (in Dutch of course) with our producer Michiel Snijders from il Luster with some nice pictures and info on films produced by il Luster, including Paul and the Dragon. Then there's also a nice small article about Anikey in business magazine ZJournaal:

Cinekid 2009

We had a great screening and a nice short Q&A of Paul and the Dragon at Cinekid. Afterwards we got a nice Cinekid Certificate and a pile of chocolate.

That's a wrap!

Yesterday we wrapped up the final audio mix for Little Quentin at Bob Kommer Studios. Now it's ready to go on film! Couple of weeks ago we already did a little test at Cineco, it looked great and so we got our very first filmroll! Bonus: the final final poster of the film:

Anima Mundi award

The beautiful Anima Mundi award from Rio de Janeiro! The character even walks when you pull the small lever on the globe. Obrigado, Brasil!

Festivals update!

Paul and the Dragon will be shown at quite a few festivals in Holland the upcoming months.
First, we have the KLIK animation festival in Amsterdam. This Saturday the film will play in the Hollandse Nieuwe (Fresh animation from the Netherlands) shows at 14:00 in De Balie Small and on Sunday at 16:30 at the Kriterion.

Later this month the film will play at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht. It will play on Friday the 25th of September at Hoogt 2 at 14:00 and on Wednesday the 30th of September at Hoogt 3 at 22:15.

Then in October, the film will play at the Cinekid festival in Amsterdam, on Friday the 23rd at Ketelhuis 1 at 14:00.

Finally the film will play at the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) in Utrecht. It will enter the commissioned shorts competition and the audience award for Dutch animation.

Little Quentin poster

The official film poster for our new short film 'Little Quentin'. Voila.

Sweet Sounds!

Here are some photos taken at the Bob Kommer Sound Studios where we recorded the sound effects for our new animated short, 'Little Quentin':

Paul & The Dragon wins Brazil

Paul & The Dragon did well at the Anima Mundi festival in Brazil
We won 1st prize for Best Short for Children in Rio de Janeiro.
Click HERE to see a list of all the winners:

We also came in 2nd at the festival in Sao Paulo.
A big shout out and thank you to all the local Brazilian people who voted for the film.
Hope to be there in Rio next year!

'Paul & the Dragon' wins Divercine!

Last week Paul & the Dragon won the price for 'Best Animated Film' in Montevideo, Uruguay, at the the 18th International Uruguayan Film Festival for Children and Teen-agers, DIVERCINE. The film also got a Special Mention on the festival. Excellent!

This is what the jury had to say about it:

"Por el excelente guión que, sin diálogos, logra transmitir lúdicamente la visión y las emociones de un niño ante el diagnóstico de cáncer en su cuerpo. Logra encontrar humor donde habitualmente sólo hay drama y logra encontrar vida donde se cree que solo hay muerte"

Roughly translated by Google:

"Its excellent script, without any dialogue, manages to convey the vision and playful emotions of a child before the diagnosis of cancer in his body. It finds humor where there is usually only tragedy and finds life where it is believed that there is only death"

Interview Digital Movie Magazine

A couple of weeks ago we got interviewed by Digital Movie Magazine. Here's the result with a whoppin' four pages interview (in dutch) full of 'Paul and the Dragon' goodness:

'Floyd'...falling soon!

This week we got the most excellent news that the National Film Fund has granted us financial support for the pre-production of our new animated shortfilm
'Fallin' Floyd'.
This means after wrapping up 'Little Quentin' this summer, we can start the pre-production of two new film projects: a short and a feature film. Excellent.

The End is Nigh

As we are slowly approaching the final scenes, here are a couple of stills from our upcoming new animated short film noir 'Little Quentin'.