Gruffalo & Beast: Triple Victory in Chicago.

November 16th, 2010

“The Gruffalo” and “The Little Boy and The Beast”, together with Soi’s Jakob Schuh, recently visited The Windy City to find that our films had won three awards at the wonderful “27th Chicago International Children’s Film Festival“. “The Gruffalo picked up “The Best of the Fest” and a Second Prize for “Best Animated Short”.  “The Little Boy and The Beast” was awarded as “Best Animated Television Production”.  We’re very happy, we had a great time there, thank you, fine people of CICFF.

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Gruffalo awarded in Ottawa

November 2nd, 2010

We are delighted to hear that “The Gruffalo” was awarded at this year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival as the 2010 Best Television Made for Children. Once again many thanks to the team with directors Jakob Schuh and Max Lang. Besides that, “The Gruffalo” has also won the CIFEJ-Prize at the Biennial of Animation in Bratislava where “The Little Boy and the Beast” was awarded with the UNICEF-Prize. Uwe Heidschötter’s and Johannes Weiland’s short “The Little Boy and the Beast” has also received the Award for the Best Short Film in the Minmest section of the Anim’est Festival in Romania. Many thanks to the juries!

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Hooray

October 18th, 2010

We just received wonderful news from Sapporo:
“The Little Boy and The Beast” was awarded for the Best Children Short and the half hour special we did with Magic Light pictures for the BBC “The Gruffalo” received the Best Children Choice Award Silver!

We are extremely honoured and happy for both the awards and would like to give our thanks to the festival and the juries.

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Sometimes it’s hard to stay at home

October 8th, 2010

Unfortunately, we hadn’t got the chance to attend this year’s Animadrid Festival. We thank the jury for awarding “The Little Boy and the Beast” as the Mejor Cortometraje Infantil.

Our short “The Little Boy and the Beast” was also awarded at the KROK Festival as the Best Film for Children and received a Special Distinction in the Short Film Competition at CICDAF in China. In Amsterdam at the KLIK Festival the short got an honourable mention, it was runner up at the Erich-Kästner-Award in Berlin.

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Gruffalo nominated for a “Rose d’Or”

September 21st, 2010

“The Gruffalo” has been nominated for the prestigious “Rose d’Or” at the 50th International Television Festival, Lucerne.

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Gruffalo wins at Curtas, Portugal

September 13th, 2010

Soi’s Torben Meier recently went to Portugal to accept the “Prémio Curtinhas” at the 18th Curtas International Film Festival. See snapshot above.

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