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.
GRUFFALO & BEAST: VICTORY AT “CARTOONS ON THE BAY”
We’re delighted to hear that two of of our latest productions have taken home three awards at this year’s “Cartoons on the Bay:
“The Little Boy and the Beast” has been awarded as the “Best Educational and Issues Film”. “The Gruffalo” has won both the “Arleccchino Award” (assigned in cooperation with the Bologna Bookfair to commend the best animated adaptation of a book) as well as the award for the “Best European Production”.
THE BEAST TRAVELS EUROPE
This month “The Little Boy and The Beast” go to Portugal, Germany and Spain. You can watch our short at the IndieLisboa Festival in Lisbon (22.04 – 02.05.2010) and at the “Goldener Spatz” in Erfurt & Gera (25.04. – 30.04.2010) as well as at the Festival Animabisauri in Bilbao (23.04 – 30.04.2010).
RATS & FROGS
Two of our little films for German children’s show “Löwenzahn” are being broadcast on Broadcasters KIKA and ZDF these days. First off, you can catch “Ratten — Der Fänger von Bärstadt” (this coming Sunday April 14th, 08:35 am on ZDF and 04:00 pm on KIKA), followed Continue reading
DAMSELS & DRAGONS
A while ago Sandra Brandstätter suggested a row of lovely dragons, princesses and townspeople for one of our “Löwenzahn” shorts … Continue reading
B_EASTER SUNDAY
You can watch our short “The Little Boy and The Beast” again this Easter Sunday (April, 4th) at 3:55 pm on German Broadcaster KIKA. The film was directed by Uwe Heidschötter and Johannes Weiland.
WHY IS A POLAR BEAR WHITE?
Soi contributed another 2D short to ZDF´s Children TV Series “Löwenzahn”. The episode “evolution of life” is broadcast on March 28th at 08:35 am on ZDF and at 4:00 pm on KIKA.
STUDIO SOI IN ANNECY!
Two of Soi’s films made it into the TV Special category at the Animation Festival in Annecy this year. Come and watch “Der Kleine und das Biest” as well as “The Gruffalo” there, the directors and many of our team will do the same. We are very much looking forward to seeing you all there.
THE GRUFFALO: MAN OVERBOARD!
Some nice drawings below, which Manu did for “The Gruffalo” to illustrate how his design of the stream and rapids would work after the bridge (above) comes loose and falls into the water…
BEASTLY PITCH
Here’s Uwe’s initial piece of artwork used to pitch the look of “The Little Boy and The Beast” to broadcaster ZDF.
“THE STORK” ON KIKA
This Sunday, March 21st, our short “The Stork” will be shown on childrens’ channel KIKA – at 8.35 am.
THE BEAST VISITS OBERHAUSEN
Our short “The Little Boy and The Beast” is selected for the Kids and Youth Competition at this year’s “International Short Film Festival Oberhausen”.