​The Amazing World of Annecy: Awards for “A Morning Stroll” “Gumball” and “Princess’ Painting”.

June 15th, 2011

Great news from France: “A Morning Stroll” by our friends at studio aka (directed by lovely Grant Orchard) won the JUNIOR JURY AWARD for a shortfilm, Ben Bocquelet’s “The Amazing World of Gumball” was awarded with the CRYSTAL for BEST TV PRODUCTION for the episode “The Quest” and Studio Soi’s “Das Bild der Prinzessin” was crowned as BEST TV SPECIAL! Congratulations to the teams of all three projects!

For everyone in Germany: “Das Bild der Prinzessin” will premiere this weekend on KI.KA. Watch the film as part of the children’s series Siebenstein at 11:35 a.m. on Sunday, June 19th!

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Goldener Spatz

June 1st, 2011

“Princess Painting” and the “Gruffalo” were very well received at the “Goldener Spatz” German Children’s Film and Media Festival in Erfurt and Gera. At the closing ceremony last Friday this lead to a special “award for innovation” for Studio Soi. Klaus Morschheuser and Jakob Schuh proudly accepted the award and felt very honored by the jury’s words:

http://www.goldenerspatz.de/fileadmin/dokumente/festival/preistraeger_2011/Innovation.pdf

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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)

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“The Gruffalo” is nominated for an Oscar.

January 26th, 2011

Magic Light Pictures’ and Studio Soi’s ”The Gruffalo” has been nominated for an Oscar. We couldn’t be happier and we would once again like to thank all the fine people who worked so hard on this.

(The picture above we nicked from one of these people, matte painter Alex Lindner.)

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Hat trick for the Beast!!!

December 17th, 2010

We take our hat off to salute “The Little Boy and the Beast” for winning three times at festivals in November: The short was given the Audience Awards at Bradford as well as at the kuki 3rd International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth in Berlin, and it was awarded as Best Short Film at the Festival Internacional de Animación Expotoons in Argentinia. In December, the Beast was awarded as the Best Animation Film at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg. Yippee!

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“The Beast” awarded at Animated Encounters.

November 26th, 2010

We’re delighted to hear that Studio Soi’s “The Little Boy and The Beast” continues to find friends whereever it goes. The film, directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschoetter, has recently been awarded the Grand Prix at the “Animated Encounters” festival in Bristol. Thank you, Bristol!

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