Big Festival Round-up: China, Japan, Korea, Brasil, USA, Pakistan

June 6th, 2010

“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).

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René Aubry celebrates with “The Gruffalo”.

June 1st, 2010

On April 19th René Aubry gave an anniversary concert in Peter Brooks’ legendary “Bouffes du Nord” to celebrate a carreer that started on that very stage 30 years prior. Here’s a clip of René and his ensemble playing a sweet version of the “Mouse Theme” to a packed house that night, one of René’s many beautiful compositions for “The Gruffalo”.  Thanks for everything, René!

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Soi Screenings in Annecy.

May 31st, 2010



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

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“The Beast” awarded at Ars Electronica.

May 25th, 2010

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.

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Another chance to see “the Beast” (on TV).

May 20th, 2010

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.

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Soi and friends at ITFS + fmx

April 27th, 2010

Next up: ITFS and fmx. Here’s a sum-up of Soi related activities you can partake in should you be in Stuttgart next week:

Both “The Little Boy and the Beast” and “The Gruffalo” will be on show at the ITFS as part of the TRICKS FOR KIDS competition, on Sunday, May 9th (more here). “The Little Boy and the Beast” will be screened a second time as part of the “BW Reel” on Friday, May 7th (more here). One of the film’s directors, Johannes Weiland, will be giving a talk about his work at Soi and elsewhere on Wednesday, May 5th (more here) at fmx. Also at fmx, on Tuesday, May 4th, directors Jakob Schuh and Max Lang, Setbuilding Supervisor Klaus Morschheuser and Head of CGI Mathias Schreck will grant an in-depth look into the making of “The Gruffalo” (more here). Soi co-founder and longtime compatriot Saschka Unseld will be giving an account of his life at Pixar, on Friday, May 7th (more here) and our friend and collaborator Harald Siepermann will share some of his secrets in a workshop on Character Design on Sunday, May 9th (more here). Also, Philip Hunt’s wonderful ”Lost and Found”, produced at our longtime partners and UK reps studio aka will be on show Saturday, May 8th (more here).

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