GRUFFALO AWARDED IN OTTAWA

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!

SERVING SPOONS

Soi’s director Michael Sieber just has produced the follow-up ad for the Maggi campaign. Leading in and out of Germany’s classic daily soup “Marienhof” a family of spoons gets overexcited.



SOI SCREENINGS

So, if you want to see one of our films there a quite a few screenings coming up:

“The Little Boy and The Beast”  will be screened in Seoul at the Seoul International Family Film Festival that takes place from 27th October to the 2nd of November 2010.

And in December, again in Seoul, at SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 (held from December 15 to 18) there will be a screening of our film “The Gruffalo”, as well as another screening of “The Little Boy and The Beast”.

“The Little Boy and The Beast” is also shown at DOK Leipzig (October 18th to 24th).

The Chicago Children’s Festival will be screening our half hour special “The Gruffalo” as well as the short film “The Little Boy and The Beast” in the time from October 22th to the 31st.

Almost at the same time but further north: The Canadian premier of “The Gruffalo” will be at the Animationfestival in Ottawa (October 20th to 24th).

If you’re in Bristol for the Animated Encounters Festival from November, 16th to the 21st you will be able to watch “The Little Boy and The Beast”.

HOORAY

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.

SOMETIMES IT’S HARD TO STAY AT HOME

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.

SOI FOR FRAPORT


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.

BIG IN BRAZIL: TRIPLE VICTORY FOR BEAST & GRUFFALO

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 FOR MAGGI

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.