How is Gruffalo codirector Max Lang doing these days? Here‘s a sweet little article with the answer. (In German.)
“TOTO HOUSE” AT ISH’11.
In March, we finished production of “Toto House“, a corporate film for Japanese sanitary manufacturer TOTO. Directed and designed by Soi’s Uwe Heidschoetter, the film premiered simultaniously on the web and at ISH ‘11 in Frankurt. We rececently received a few photos showing the framework the film was presented in at ISH, and we thought that they looked quite nice. Thank you, Toto.
OH CANADAA
This month “The Gruffalo” won three more awards, all of them in Canada. At the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Shortfilm Festival, the film was given the TELUS Audience Choice Award. At the Toronto International Film Festival for Children and Youth “The Gruffalo” was awarded twice: Audiences declared it Best Short Film and the film also won a Jury Award, again for Best Shortfilm. Thank you very much, Canada!
THE AMAZING WORLD OF ANNECY: AWARDS FOR “A MORNING STROLL” “GUMBALL” AND “PRINCESS’ PAINTING”
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!
ANNECY !
This year we will be showing our latest short “Princess’ Painting” at the Animation Festival
in Annecy. Luckily Ben Bocquelet’s “The Amazing World of Gumball” is part of the same
programme with the episode “The Quest”. Don’t miss the opportunity to watch both at these
dates:
Tuesday 7th June: 10h30 Décavision / Salle 1
Wednesday 8th June: 14h00 MJC Novel
Thursday 9th June: 16h00 Décavision / Salles 3&4
Friday 10th June: 14h00 Salle Pierre Lamy
And catch up with Soi’s director Klaus Morschheuser who will be present at the festival!
Nous vous souhaitons une bonne projection!
GOLDENER SPATZ
“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
FMX & ITFS: SOI AND “PRINCESS’ PAINTING” SAY: THANK YOU!
FMX and ITFS have ended, and we had a blast meeting all you wonderful people and watching some fantastic programmes with you.
Thanks for having us and thanks to all the friendly visitors who managed to drop by the studio and say hello.
The „Princess’ Painting“ received a special mention by the children’s jury. We feel honored and are happy that the film could be screened various times throughout the festival.
See you all again next year!
SOI AT ITFS
Our latest shortfilm “Princess’ Painting”, directed by Klaus Morschheuser and Johannes Weiland, will be screened at this year’s ”International Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart” on the following five occasions:
May, 4th
11:00 am at Metropol 1, KinderSpezial
May, 5th
10.00 am at Metropol 1, KinderSpezial
May, 6th
08.30 & 10.00 am at Metropol 1, KinderSpezial
May, 7th
01.00 pm at Gloria 2, BW-Rolle
May, 7th
02.30 pm at Metropol 1, competition T.F.K
Both the film’s directors will be present at the festival and we’re all looking forward to the event. Hope to see you all you all in Stuttgart!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
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)
MISS FOX OF “TOTO HOUSE”
WELCOME TO “TOTO HOUSE”.
“Toto House”, a five minute corporate film for japanese manufacturer of fine sanitary ware TOTO, is currently premiering on the web and at ISH ’11, Frankurt. Directed and designed by Soi’s Uwe Heidschoetter, the little film follows the lives of rather recent neighbors Mr. Rabbit and Mrs. Fox and their gentle first encounters. Watch “Toto House” here.
“THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL” IS COMING
A first sneak peek of CN’s upcoming show “The Amazing World of Gumball” has just been released on youtube. Created by Ben Bocquelet, Gumball was produced by Dandelion Studios Ltd , Boulder Media Ltd and Studio Soi.
ANNECY 2011
Two projects we’ve been involved in will be part of this year’s competition in Annecy: “The Amazing World of Gumball“, helmed by our friend Ben Bocquelet, will premiere an episode at the festival. Studio Soi was in charge of technical direction, modeling, rigging, parts of the rendering, layout as well as the title sequence. Our latest short film “Princess’ Painting” by directors Klaus Morschheuser and Johannes Weiland will be competing in the TV-special competition. Also this year in Annecy: Studio Aka’s latest short “A Morning Stroll“, directed by the always amazing Grant Orchard and “Daniel, une vie en Bouteille“, directed by our friend and collaborator Louis Tardivier.
STUDIO SOI IN DE STAD VAN TINTIN EN SPIROU
If you are in Brussels for Anima 2011 this week you have several opportunities to take a look at our work: Our shortfilm “The Little Boy and the Beast” will be screened on Wednesday, March, 9th at 5:30 pm in Studio 5 and a second time on Thursday, March, 10th at 9:30 pm in Studio 4. Also there is a special screening that shows only films by studio soi. The screening will include “The Gruffalo“, “Oli’s chance” and “Angel afoot” amongst others. The screening is scheduled on March 11th at 8:00 pm in Studio 4. Soi’s co-founder Torben Meier will be present and happy to answer any questions.