We’re very happy to hear that Soi’s “The Little Boy and The Beast” will be awarded with a “Robert Geisendörfer Preis” this year. Read more here.
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“THE BEAST” AWARDED AT HIROSHIMA 2010!
We’re delighted to hear that Johannes Weiland’s and Uwe Heidschötter’s “The Little Boy and The Beast” was awarded with a Special Price at the International Animation Festival Hiroshima 2010!
BEAST WINS AT MUNDOS DIGITALES!
We’re very happy to hear that Johannes Weiland’s and Uwe Heidschoetter’s “The Little Boy and the Beast” has been awarded as “Best Animation / Short Film” at Mundos Digitales in A Coruña, Spain.
BEAST WINS IN SHANGHAI!
Production Manager Sabrina Schmid has returned from China and brought home the Golden Magnolia Award in the category “Best Foreign Animation” for “The Little Boy and the Beast”!
Double Victory in Annecy: Cristals for Beast and Gruffalo!
Both our latest productions have been awarded at this year’s 50th anniversary of the “Festival international de film d’animation, Annecy“.
“The Little Boy and the Beast” took home “The Cristal for Best TV Production”, whilst “The Gruffalo” was awarded as the “Best TV Special”. We are happy.
“SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG” ON SOI
There’s a nice little piece on Studio Soi in today’s (June 8th) “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. (Panorama, pg.9). Link
GRUFFALO & BEAST: TRIPLE VICTORY AT PRIX JEUNESSE
Last Wednesday Studio Soi was awarded an amazing three “Prix Jeunesse” with “The Gruffalo” and “The Little Boy and the Beast”.
“The Little Boy and the Beast” was awarded in the category “Up to 6, Fiction”, “The “Gruffalo” won both the Prix Jeunesse in the category “7 – 11 Fiction” and the “Prix Jeunesse of the Children’s Jury”. We’re very happy and would like to thank the fine people of Prix Jeunesse for a wonderful evening.
Big Festival Round-up: China, Japan, Korea, Brasil, USA, Pakistan
“The Little Boy and the Beast” (together with our producer Sabrina Schmid) will be visiting China, where the film is in competition at the 16th Shanghai TV Festival (June 6th to June 11th) next week. “The Gruffalo” is going West then, to compete at Siggraph in LA (July 25th to July 29th). Both “The Gruffalo” and “The Little Boy and the Beast” plus its predecessor, Jakob Schuh’s and Saschka Unseld’s “Angel Afoot” are competing at 3rd Lahore International Children’s Film Festival 2010 (Sept 1st to Sept 12th). We’re very happy to hear that “The Little Boy and the Beast” will also be competing at Hiroshima 2010 (Aug 7th to Aug 11th) and Brasil’s Anima Mundi (July 16th to July 25th) and will be screened at SICAF (July 21st to July 25th).
SOI SCREENINGS IN ANNECY
If you want to catch two of our films in Annecy next week, here's where and when: "THE GRUFFALO" ( TV programme n°2 ) Decavision 1 08/06/2010 10h30 MJC Novel 09/06/2010 14h00 Decavision 3+4 0/06/2010 21h00 Salle Pierre Lamy 11/06/2010 16h00 "THE LITTLE BOY AND THE BEAST" ( TV programme n°4 ) Salle Pierre Lamy 07/06/2010 16h00 Decavision 3+4 08/06/2010 21h00 Decavision 1 10/06/2010 10h30 MJC Novel 11/06/2010 14h00
“THE BEAST” AWARDED AT ARS ELECTRONICA
The jury of the Computer Animation/Film/VFX category of Prix Ars Electronica 2010 has selected “The Little Boy and the Beast” for an Honorary Mention! The Festival takes place in Linz, Austria, from Sept. 2nd to Sept. 7th 2010.
CANADA!
We’re happy to hear that both Soi’s “The Gruffalo” and “The Little Boy and the Beast” will be going to Canada shortly. Both productions are competing for a World Television Award at the prestigious Banff Television Conference this year.
ANOTHER CHANCE TO SEE “THE BEAST”
For those who missed it at ITFS: This coming Sunday, May 23rd, German Broadcaster Ki.Ka will be showing our short “The Little Boy and the Beast” again. The six-minute piece is scheduled for 03:25 pm. Be sure to switch in a little earlier as smaller programm changes might occur.
OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTS “THE BEAST”
Johannes Weiland’s and Uwe Heidschoetter’s “The Little Boy and the Beast” was awarded with an honorary mention in the Children’s and Youth Competition at the prestigious “Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen“.
“The Little Boy and the Beast” wins “Best Script”.
Marcus Sauermann, writer of Soi’s “The Little Boy and the Beast”, has won the award for the best script for a children’s movie at this year’s “Goldener Spatz“. The German text of the jury’s statement can be found here. Congratulations Marcus!