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.
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.
The next chance to see “The Little Boy and the Beast” will be this Sunday. The broadcaster KIKA will show “The Beast” on September, 26th at 08.55 as well as on Monday, 27th at 09.25 am as part of the preschool TV-show “Siebenstein”.
Currently airing live in the Commerzbank-Arena is Studio Soi’s third commercial for Fraport/Eintracht Frankfurt. Once again directed by Michel Sieber, with design by Michael Sieber and Sebastian Koch.
“The Gruffalo” has been nominated for the prestigious “Rose d’Or” at the 50th International Television Festival, Lucerne.
Soi’s Torben Meier recently went to Portugal to accept the “Prémio Curtinhas” at the 18th Curtas International Film Festival. See snapshot above.
We’re delighted to hear that Soi’s “The Gruffalo” has been awarded ‘Best Short for Children’ at Anima Mundi, Sao Paulo, and was a runner up for the same award at Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro. Soi’s “The Little Boy and the Beast” won ‘Best Short’ in Sao Paulo and again was the runner up for the same award in Rio. The Professional Jury also awarded Marcus Sauermann’s script for “The Little Boy and the Beast” as ‘Best Script’.
Soi’s Michael Sieber recently completed two ads for Maggi, leading in (and out of) everyone’s favourite daily soap “Verbotenen Liebe”. Characterdesign was done by Sandra Brandstaetter.
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.
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!
We´ve given it a try and now you can as well. See what we’ve built during the production of “The Gruffalo”:
All you need is a beamer and a digital camera and this neat little software Florian Schreck programmed for us. See how it works:
You can download the programme and the source code here .There’s also a rudimentary instruction included.
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.
A moment ago, we opened the June issue of Digital Production to find this very lavish spread on “The Gruffalo”. Something for the blog.
“The Gruffalo” was voted runner up for the Audience Award at this year’s Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. We’re very happy that the film was well received.