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).
RENÉ AUBRY CELEBRATES WITH “THE GRUFFALLO”
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!
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 GRUFFALO” IN CHINA
Today we received an issue of “CG magazine” from China with a few great looking pages about the making of Soi’s “The Gruffalo”. We have no idea what it says, but it looks very nice. Have a look at the rest of the pages here… Continue reading
GRUFFALO WINS AT ITFS!
We had a great time once again at the ITFS this year, crowned by the “The Gruffalo” winning first prize in the Children’s Competition. We thank the lovely jury (see above) and the fantastic audience who made the screenings a very special experience for us.
“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!
SOI AND FRIENDS AT ITFS + FMX
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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).
SOI IN OSLO
Studio Soi was kindly invited by Grafill, The Norwegian Organization for Visual Communication, to come to Oslo this month and present some of our work both at “Visuelt 2010” as well as Norwegian animation conference “Frame by Frame“.
Soi’s Torben Meier will give an overview of the studio’s work on Friday, May 7th at 12:30 at “Visuelt” and on Saturday, May 8th at ” Frame by Frame“. We are looking forward to meeting a lot of artists and animators in Norway and grant a glimpse behind the curtains of our more recent productions.