MIFA 2020 - version anglaise

Animation 2020 - 2021 English version

Editorial For France TĂŠlĂŠvisions, reaching out to children, and maintaining and nurturing our connection with the next generation is a key objective, which is clear in our strong commitment to animation.

This is why I have undertaken to increase our investment in animation until 2022 and pledged in January to ensure that the number of hours dedicated to animation remains very high as part of our linear broadcasting.

In both our linear and digital spheres, this connection is fostered chiefly through the success of Okoo – the benchmark brand for children’s programming. With a plentiful digital offer suitable for the whole family, we have risen to the challenge of becoming the best digital platform for children and parents alike. We owe our success to the youth programming team at France Télévisions and to our digital teams. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them and thank them for their hard work. I would also like to thank the producers and writers who put their trust in us and helped us to achieve this feat.

Our commitment to animation does not stop at children’s programming. I firmly believe that it is a genre for everyone. With the support of public service broadcasting, French animation continues to stand out as a leader in the field worldwide. It is a clear testament to French editorial creativity and enhances the influence of our creative industry.

Nothing should be taken for granted and much remains to be done if we are to continue upholding our editorial vision and adapting to new viewing habits, but it is undeniable that with your talent and imagination, we will go on achieving great things in animation.

More than ever, you can count on France Télévisions.

Delphine Ernotte Cunci CEO of France Télévisions

Number

1

Number

broadcaster

investor

of animated programmes

65 % French animation on 6,400 hours of animated programming shown in 2019

1

in the production of original French animation

21 16

new productions developments in 2020

Success of animation for adults and the general public

Culottées

La Petite Mort

viewers on France 5 and 1,3 M videos watched

videos watched, all seasons included

10 M

(from March to May 2020)

22.3 M

Monsieur Flap

16.6 M

videos watched, all seasons included

5.5 M viewers under 15 years old

(weekly coverage without a viewing threshold) *(figure for 2019 – specification report 2019)

A rich and diverse offer

120

7.2 M

brands

videos watched per week

3,000

(december / week 23 – with a peak to 9m during lockdown)

titles

Already a strong brand among 3-12-year-olds

780 000 app downloads

A highly rated and recommended brand

4.3

App score on Androïd and Apple

97 %

60%

of children aged between 6 and 12 who already watch Okoo content say they will continue to do so and recommend it to their peers

of children between 6 and 12 who have already watched Okoo say they are very satisfied with the programmes (98% are satisfied or very satisfied)

(popularity and satisfaction scale, February 20/ Médiamétrie)

Productions 2020

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France Télévisions is very much involved and continues every year to uphold its commitment to the animation sector, supporting artists, writers, directors, technicians and producers.

As the leading investor in the sector in France, we are creating animated shows which are both educational and fun in order to enhance the diversity of our offer, our role-models and the worlds depicted. Our line-up speaks for itself.

Tiphaine de Raguenel Director of Youth and Animation

Every story provides an opportunity for experience and learning, and it would be wrong not to see fiction as perhaps the most important way in which children learn about the world around them.

Pierre Siracusa Head of Animation

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Preschool Pompon ours 39 x 7 min Produit par Supamonks Pompon is a six-year-old cub, in bear years. He is mischievous, cheerful and playful. But above

all things, he has an incredible and precious talent that his best friend Rita and his parents enjoy tremendously: he can make the ordinary

extraordinary. Thanks to his imagination and creativity, which take him on countless detours, growing day by day is child’s play.

Anna et ses amis Edmond et Lucy

Edmond et Lucy 52 x 11 min Produit par MIAM !

Animation

Anna et ses amis

Edmond the squirrel and Lucy the bear cub are raised as brother and sister in a majestic chestnut tree they call home - a kind of radiant city of the forest.

Playing and growing up in the heart of nature, unravelling its mysteries and living adventures in the great outdoors... what a wonderful life!

78 x 7 min Produit par Superprod Animation Anna, a little girl, Froga the Frog, Bubu the Dog, Ron the Cat and Christopher the Earthworm are inseparable buddies. Like a circle of children playing “grown-ups”, every day our five heroes start a new project. Their clumsiness, eager enthusiasm and impatience often work against them… but thanks to Anna’s kindness, every adventure offers the chance to learn together and strengthens their friendship.

Ernest & CĂŠlestine Season 2 26 x 13 min Produit par Folivari After a first collection and a feature film, Ernest and Celestine are back for original adventures punctuated by laughter, travel and new encounters!

Ana Filoute

SamSam

SamSam Season 3 52 x 11 min Produit par Folivari et Bayard

PJ Masks

Parents, friends, a teddy bear, a school... SamSam is living an ordinary kid’s life, but in an extraordinary world, full of superheroes!

After two seasons and a feature-length film, SamSam is back for a brand-new third season, along with a whole group of new friends, ready to fly off on original and incredible adventures!

PJ Masks- Season 5 52 x 12 min Produit par Frog Box The PJMasks encounter two new villains: Orticia, a strange girl who makes spooky plants grow, and Pirate Robot, who has been accidentally programmed to search for buried treasure, just like a real pirate! But most of all they will discover more about their own powers, linked to their spirit animals.

Kids

Jade Armor

50/50 Heroes

26 x 30 min Produit par TeamTO The mystical Jade Armor is a legendary superhero.

And now, it is Cho’s turn to be Jade Armor. Even she can’t believe her destiny is to be this epic hero! With the help of her friends and the mystical Beasticons that accompany the armor, Cho is thrust into a series of action-packed adventures. Each day, she must contend with both an evil array of super villains and the very real trials of teenage life.

50/50 Heroes 52 x 11 min Produit par Cyber Group Studios

Moi à ton âge

Mo and Sam have inherited some powers.

But, being half-siblings, they’re going to have to share these powers down the middle. Upshot: these two “sorta superheroes” run half as fast, turn half invisible, and shoot threads half as far! All they have to do is make their daily lives as kids half-liveable.

Moi à ton âge 52 x 11 min 30 Produit par Monello Productions Paul, 10, is a typical little boy. He goes to school, plays sports, is secretly in love, confuses his parents to get what he wants and feels old enough to do things on his own! Except that he has a strange gift.

As soon as someone says the words, “When I was your age” Paul is hurled back to the time when the person was 10 years old.

Dogmatix & the Indomitables 52 x 11 min D’après une création de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo Produit par Studio 58 – Lagardère

The enchanted village of Pinocchio

The year is 52BC. As we know, all of Lutetia was under Roman rule… well, not quite all. After their daily life is disrupted by the decisions of a new Roman prefect in the City of Lights, a group of irrepressible four-legged Gauls, led by Dogmatix, resists invasion by the packs of Roman dogs and their terrible leader, the Goth Arquebus.

They all lived happily ever after and had lots of children… The end?

Not at all! This is just the beginning of the story of Pinocchio and the Enchanted Village! ...Just imagine! A charming little village nestled between a mysterious forest and a shimmering lake. But this isn’t just any old village, no it’s enchanted!

52 x 13 min produit par Onkids & Family (Mediawan)

The enchanted village of Pinocchio

Tobie Lolness 13 x 52 min Produit par Tant Mieux Prod Tobie Lolness is just one and a half millimetres tall, and he’s the most wanted person in his world, the Great Oak Tree. When Toby’s father makes a ground-breaking discovery,

tapping into the very heart of the Tree’s energy, he also realizes that exploiting it could permanently damage their world.

Mystery Lane 26 x 22 min Produit par Studio Hari

Mystery Lane

Strange things are going on in London. Clever – a young guinea pig with extraordinary skills of analysis – and her little brother, Bro, lead investigations. Will they be able to solve the most unusual cases, ones that even leave Scotland Yard baffled?

Tobie Lolness

Foot 2 rue Season 4 26 x 22 min Produit par Zodiak Kids Studio France et Monello Productions Qualifications for the next Street Football World Cup are about to start in Port Mary. Little Dragon, an 11-year-old boy, dreams of taking part. But who would accept him as teammate… after all, he’s “too young and too small…”. Nobody takes him seriously. So, Little Dragon creates his own team: The Blues! He is more determined than ever to win the championship and prove to the world that neither age nor size matters; only the street football spirit.

Gigantosaurus Season 2 and season 3 104 x 11 min Produit par Cyber Group Studios

Gigantosaurus

Rocky, Bill, Tiny and Mazu are four young dinosaurs growing up in the Cretaceous period. Life is always an adventure: new volcanoes are popping up all the time, long-necked brachiosauruses and enormous triceratopses roam free, meteor showers light up the night sky and…

Gigantosaurus, the biggest, fiercest dinosaur reigns over it all! Upcoming seasons 2 & 3 of Gigantosaurus, will be full of surprises, brimming with brand new songs, adventures and comedy with cool new sets and characters.

Oscar et Malika season 2 52 x 11 min Produit par Watch Next Media Every morning, Nate and Malika leave home 30 minutes early to go to school, and yet every morning they arrive late!

That’s because every morning, something AMAZING happens on the way. But even though their stories are always true, Principal Prudence never believes them…

A comedy ahead of its time!

Adults

Some Of Us

Atomu (en VR)

Pandas in the Mist season 3

Pandas in the Mist

Some Of Us 10 x 10 min en linéaire 10 x 6 min Produit par Bachibouzouk

Atomu

Some of us is an interactive, mobile series. Ten stories of international athletes who have shown the world that SOME OF US can also fight for ideals, stand up for what is right, and face up to a world where white able-bodied heterosexuals are the norm.

30 x 2 min Produit par Melting Productions It’s a cute panda, it eats bamboo, it’s easy-going and it’s very telegenic.

The problem is that there are only 1,600 left and they do not know how to fight against their disappearance...

To survive, they need to use their imagination and fight as best as they can (with humour and sarcasm) against the destruction of their environment.

20 min Créé par Shariffa Ali et Yetunde Dada Produit par AtlasV, France Télévisions, POV, SundanceLab, Electric South, National Theatre et Digital Lab Africa Atomu uses virtual reality, dance and music to create a sacred space where seven users can cooperate in order to explore different versions of themselves. This creation places the user at the cyclical centre of a myth of the Kikuyu tribe from Kenya, where a man can become a woman, and a woman can become a man, while they dance around the sacred Mugumo tree.

Short films

Flatastic 8 min Écrit par Léa Perret Dessiné et réalisé par Alice Saey Produit par Miyu Productions Having been forced into a corner, the manta rays rise up and take control of Earth. The new Manta Ray era ushers in the systematic flattening of every surface and every object…including humans.

Genius Loci

Competition Selection Annecy 2020 16 min Réalisé par Adrien Mérigeau Produit par Kazak Productions et Folimage One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems to be alive, like some sort of guide.

Genius Loci

Flatastic

I’m late 18 min Écrit et réalisé par Sawako Kabuki Produit par Miyu Productions et New Deer If your girlfriend told you “my period hasn’t come yet”, or if your own period hadn’t come yet, how would you feel and how might you react?

I’m late

Les Mystères de Paris (Christmas 2020) 40 x 3 min D’après le roman d’Eugène Sue Adapté et réalisé par Véronique Puybaret Produit par Amopix et La Curieuse Paris, 1838. Rudolph of Gerolstein is looking for Germain, the son of his housekeeper, amidst the Paris underworld.

He searches among the good and the wicked, colourful characters from the various circles of the working class, the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. But through this quest, he is confronted with an intimate personal secret…

The Ungemach experiment, a eugenics history 52 min Réalisé par Vincent Gaullier Produit par Sancho & Co, Look at Science, France Télévisions, avec la participation d’Histoire TV

The Ungemach experiment, a eugenics history

L’Expérience Ungemach, une histoire de l’eugénisme

In 1924, the Ungemach house and garden complex was inaugurated in Strasbourg, designed to accommodate couples of «healthy and fertile stock».

Once selected, they had to start large families and raise them in «good moral conditions».

This eugenicist experiment, which was endorsed by local and national authorities and fascinated many countries, would last more than 50 years.

This film tells its story and inscribes it in the history of eugenics, from its origins to its contemporary resurgence.

Une grande roue au milieu du désert 10 min Écrit et réalisé par Lénaïg Le Moigne Produit par Miyu Productions During an evening with friends, a young woman recounts her experiences as a member of a humanitarian organisation in Iraq.

Acquisitions

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We welcome ambitious projects with strong values and role models, especially female lead characters, demonstrating an innovative range of narration styles, formats and designs.

Claire Heinrich Youth Acquisitions Manager

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Acquisitions Preschool

Claude 52 x 11 min Produit par Sixteen South Claude is a little dog who wears smart shoes, a snazzy jumper and a stylish beret. He lives in a small seaside town with his best friend – Monsieur de la chaussette (a very fashionable odd sock).

Whenever a problem needs solving or a friend needs help, Claude, nose twitching and ears wriggling, is always at hand - “I can do it!”

Remy & Boo 52 x 11 min Produit par Boatrocker This is the story of a special friendship between a little girl called Remy and an amazing robot called Boo. Remy is an adventurous 6-year-old girl with a very special best friend, Boo, a big, pink, spongy robot. Remy’s irrepressible spirit and Boo’s incredible personality make their days at Dolphin Bay a real adventure, tirelessly fuelled by their amazing imaginations.

Corn & Peg 40 x 11 min Produit par Nelvana Corn & Peg follows the adventures of two inseparable friends: a blue unicorn called Maïs and a pink Pegasus called Peg. Classmates and fans of their superhero idol, Captain Thunderhoof, these best friends live in the small town of Galloping Grove and try hard every day to do good deeds and help their friends and family to live better in the community.

Claude

And also…

Hé, Oua-Oua Season 3 52 x 11 min BBC

Remy & Boo

Corn & Peg

Acquisitions Kids

Moomins Valley Season 2 13 x 22 min Produit par Gutsy Animatons, Sky et Yle After another winter’s hibernation, Moomintroll wakes up a year older, keen to exercise the new independence and selfconfidence he has gained.

But an unusually late spring comes with fresh challenges: a brash rival and a volcanic eruption.

Moomintroll bravely triumphs, and impresses his family.

The Snail and the Whale 26 min Produit par Magic Light A beautiful tale of an unlikely friendship, a round-the-world trip and a heroic rescue. Based on the picture book written

by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

Acquisitions The Strange Chores 52 x 11 min Produit par Boatrocker In order to become the warrior heroes they long to be, two teenagers need to complete several strange and supernatural challenges set by the ghost girl who has the skills they need to replace the world’s greatest and oldest monster hunter.

However, these little tasks are anything but a walk in the park.

The Tiger who Came to Tea

Competition Selection Annecy 2020 26 min Produit par Lupus Films A mysterious tiger arrives at teatime, unannounced.

Sophie and her mother watch it in fascination as it devours not only their tea, but everything else in the house too.

And also….

Ninjago Season 12 32 x 11 min Produit par Wil Film et Lego

PAF Season 2 4 spéciaux et 63 x 7 min + 4 spéciaux de 22 min et 10 courts de 1 min Produit par Superprod Animation

The Tiger who Came to Tea

Developments

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One of our goals is to ensure that every child is offered content which is suitable for their age and maturity. The success of our pre-school offer is largely down to that objective. It is also the cornerstone of our offer for 5 to 7-year-olds. We aim to offer alternatives for these slightly older kids, when they begin to outgrow the rhythm and nature of pre-school programming but are still too young to only be watching pre-teen shows.

Pierre Siracusa Head of Animation

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Mumfie

Mumfie

Audrey’s Shelter

78 x 5 min Produit par Zodiak Kids

52 x 11 min Produit par Watch Next Media

The friendly and optimistic young elephant, Mumfie, and his best friends, Pinkey and Jelly Bean, are the heroes of the whimsical series featuring the adventures of a flying pig, a boastful octopus, and a crocodile who thinks he’s the king! For Mumfie and his friends, no challenge is too great and no flop, failure or fiasco is unfixable.

Have you ever heard of the saiga? Or the kakapo? Or the northern hairy-nosed wombat? No wonder, they are some the rarest animal species on the planet. And yet, 6-year-old Audrey gets to spend her days among them! It’s not always easy, but Audrey is determined to prove that humans and animals can live in harmony, with a little tenderness and empathy!

Audrey’s Shelter

Les Grandes Vacances 26 min Produit par Panique ! et Autour de Minuit

Les Grandes Vacances

Patouille 5 min Produit par Miyu Productions

Patouille

Patouille and his friend Momo set off to discover the dandelion, a flower capable of granting wishes!

School is over. Summer is dragging on. Indian and Cowboy are getting bored.

They go to watch an old pirate movie which will break them out of their slump. They decide to build a boat and go on an adventure. But their first attempt is a disaster. With help from the animals, they finally manage to launch their proud vessel.

Everything is ready for the great departure. But of course, nothing will go as planned .... And things will go from bad to worse.

The Who What

The Who What 52 x 7 min Produit par DoncvoilĂ Productions et Silex Films The Who What are six characters (animals and humans) that evolve together in a world which is all white. One of them in particular, Olive, has the power to draw things that come to life. He creates scenery that comes alive and sets the scene for their imaginary adventures, as well as objects or other characters that help them to get out of sticky situations when they lose their bearings.

The Fox-Badger Family season 2 52 x 12 min Produit par Dargaud Media, Ellipsanime Productions et Philm CGI Mr Badger and Mrs Fox have formed a new family with their respective children, the badger twins, Scoutbadger and Woodsy, and their little sister, Berry, and Miss Fox’s daughter, Rosie. During their adventures, the children gradually overcome their prejudices to create a very special kind of family.

SIMON Season 4 52 x 5 min Produit par GO-N Productions Simon, his little brother Gaspard and his two best friends, Lou and Ferdinand, are four children with an unbridled imagination.

Their games suddenly cross over into their imaginary world as they set themselves challenges fit for superheroes

Little Malabar season 2 26 x 4 min Produit par Tchack et Pictanovo Little Malabar explores space and has extraordinary adventures with huge natural objects which surround us: the Moon, the planets, asteroids, comets, stars, and even galaxies!

Kids

En sortant de l’école season 8 Andrée Chedid 13 x 3 min 30 Produit par Tant Mieux Prod Andrée Chedid is in the spotlight for this 8th season of the En sortant de l’école collection – the first one dedicated to a woman’s work. 13 short animated films offer an original, inventive and astonishing reading of 13 poems, interpreted by the unique graphic universe of young filmmakers fresh out of French animation schools.

ZAK JINKS Season 2 52 x 13 min Produit par Label Anim Zak Jinks is a friendly dunce. With his unbridled imagination, he never runs out of funny ideas to overcome the challenges he has to face in his everyday life (announcing a bad grade to his parents, getting around a television ban, beating a world record…). Unfortunately, the solutions he dreams up with his friends get worse and worse and inevitably become whirlwinds of mischief… and fun!

Coop Troop 52 x 11 min Produit par Technicolor Animation Productions

My Life in Versailles 6 x 26 min Produit par Films Grand Huit, en coproduction avec Miyu Productions Violette, an 8-year-old orphan, moves in with her uncle Régis, who works as a caretaker at the Palace of Versailles. Violette is shy and can’t stand him - she thinks he stinks and decides not to say one word to him. Behind the scenes at the Sun King’s Palace, this stubborn little girl and big bear learn to tame one another as they go through their mourning together.

The coop troop are an unlikely bunch of heroes on high-action missions to help any animal with a problem.

They’re four farm animals (and an egg) who are thirsty for adventure and eager to escape their ordinary life on the farm in their mobile chicken coop.

Coop Troop

My Life in Versailles

Luz y los sonidos 10 x 5 min Produit par Camera Lucida Like Luz, we are all a little bit deaf, and classical music can seem difficult to grasp.

As a result, she sets off on a voyage of discovery to find out about the sounds and emotions of music and to learn to understand the “sonidos”. This genuine visual adventure helps us to appreciate the richness, intensity and emotion of Beethoven’s music.

Luz y los sonidos

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Since the adventures of Kirikou, France 3 Cinéma has co-produced over 40 animated films.

Working at the rate of three movies per year, our films include both successful arthouse productions such as My Life as a Courgette by Claude Barras (César Award for best animated film in 2017) and The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily by Lorenzo Mattotti (Cannes Official Selection in 2019), and movies from successful franchises developed by subsidiaries of the France Télévisions group, including The Jungle Bunch by David Alaux and SamSam by Tanguy de Kermel, released in 2020.

In this year’s official competition at Annecy, the wonderful Calamity: a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary,

by Rémi Chayé, produced by Maybe Movies, looks back at the childhood of Calamity Jane in the American Wild West and depicts a gorgeous, feminist coming-ofage story. This animated wonder will be released in cinemas in October 2020 by Gebeka.

Cécile Négrier Director of France 3 Cinéma

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Little Vampire

In cinemas

Yakari Réalisé par Xavier Giacometti, Toby Genkel Produit par Ellipsanime, Dargaud Média et Bac Films Sortie le 12 août 2020 Just as his tribe is preparing to set off on its migration, Yakari the little Sioux, heads into the unknown to follow the tracks of a reportedly untameable mustang: Little Thunder. During his journey, on his own for the first time in his life, Yakari has a magical encounter with his totem animal, Great Eagle, who will give him a wonderful feather and the amazing power of being able to speak to animals.

81 min Réalisé par Joann Sfar Produit par Joann Sfar’s Magical Society Sortie le 21 octobre 2020 It’s been three hundred years since Little Vampire was 10 years old. He’s getting bored and wants to go to school to make some friends. He meets Michel, an orphan who’s having trouble at school, and they

become friends straight away. Unfortunately, the terrifying moon-faced creature The Gibbus, stands in their way.

Josep Réalisé par Aurélien Froment Produit par Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée Sortie le 30 septembre 2020

Josep

Calamity

Overwhelmed by the influx of Republicans fleeing Franco’s dictatorship, the French government’s only solution is to funnel the incoming Spaniards into concentration camps. The refugees have no choice but to build their own shacks, feed on the very horses which had led them away from their native land, and die in their hundreds... In one of these camps, two men will spark up a special friendship.

One is a policeman, the other is anti-Franco fighter and artist, Josep Bartolí (Barcelona 1910-New York 1995).

Calamity 85 min Réalisé par Rémi Chayé Produit par Sacrebleu Productions et Maybe Movies Sortie le 14 octobre 2020 1863, in the midst of a convoy heading West, Martha Jane’s father gets hurt and she must drive the family wagon and take care of the horses.

And since it’s more practical, she slips into trousers. Dressed as a boy, she discovers a world undergoing change where her tenacious character will shine through.

Find out more:

Filming in progress

Where is Anne Frank ?

Around the World in 80 days

Réalisé par Ari Folman Produit par Samsa Film, Doghouse Films, Purple Whale, Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Walking The Dog et Submarine Animation Sortie en septembre 2020 (à confirmer)

Réalisé par Samuel Tourneux Produit par Cottonwood Media et Studio Canal Sortie en 2021

Set in the modern day, Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend - the one that Anne devoted her entire diary to - magically comes to life at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam.

She believes that if she’s alive, Anne must be alive as well. She sets out on a relentless quest to find Anne.

Passepartout, a wide-eyed but spirited monkey, sees his world turned upside down when he meets the adventurer Phileas Frogg.

Phileas is a great explorer, at least that’s what he likes to think. A show-off who is always ready to take on the slightest challenge with his faithful surfboard, he agrees to a ridiculous bet – to travel around the world in 80 days…with Passepartout as his loyal sidekick.

Where is Anne Frank ?

Around the World in 80 days

Films in preparation Pil’s Adventures Réalisé par Julien Fournet Produit par TAT Productions, SND – Groupe M6 et France 3 Cinéma

Ernest & Célestine

Pil, a young vagabond girl, lives on the streets of the medieval city of Roc-en-Brume, along with her three pet weasels. To survive, she steals food from the castle of sinister regent Tristain. One day, chased by his guards, Pil disguises herself as a princess to go unnoticed....

Thus begins her crazy, delirious adventure, together with her new companions: Crobar, a big clumsy guard who thinks Pil is a noble, and Rigolin, a young loony jester. Their mission: to save Roland, heir to the throne, and victim of a curse. This adventure will turn the whole kingdom upside down and teach Pil that nobility is above all about courage, truthfulness and solidarity.

Ernest & Célestine: A Journey in Charabia Réalisé par JeanChristophe Roger, Julien Chheng Produit par Folivari et Studio Canal Sortie le 5 avril 2021 Ernest and Célestine return to Ernest’s homeland, Charabia, to get his precious broken violin repaired, only to discover that music has been banned in the country for several years.

Accompanied by sidekicks, including a mysterious masked avenger, Ernest and Célestine strive to right this injustice to bring joy back to the land of the bears.

France Télévisions is a partner of the new Annecy Festival Residency

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Writing, reflecting, wavering between different ideas, taking the time to think - we all need to go through this process to allow a creative project to emerge!

France Télévisions is delighted to be involved with this Annecy Festival residency project.

It will give our group the opportunity to meet new artists and perhaps get the ball rolling on new feature-film projects, which are always marathons rather than sprints, in the coming years.

We are supporting French creation now more than ever before, and especially in the animation sector.

Encouraging and meeting new talents remains a central part of the creativity cycle.

Cécile Négrier, Director of France 3 Cinéma, and Tiphaine de Raguenel, Director of Youth and Animation

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Graphic Development for Feature-Length Animated Films From 5 April to 27 June 2021 France Télévisions is supporting the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in the creation of a graphic development residency for feature-length animated films.

A key stage in the filmmaking process, translating a script into images requires a great deal of care and attention. Just like when shooting real images for a film, it is regarded

as an essential part of directing which establishes the coherence and rhythm of the film.

“Graphic development” includes all the steps taken by the filmmaker to construct the graphic universe and the visual progression of the film: shot breakdown and progression, thumbnail sketching, storyboard, animatics, etc. The goal is to produce an accurate framework of all the sequences which will make up the final film.

The residency is therefore positioned between the end of the writing stage and the start of the production stage, a perfect opportunity to dedicate time to creating, reflecting on and cultivating graphic ideas.

As a signatory of the 50/50 Charter, CITIA will ensure compliance with the principles of equality.

A fertile environment The residency will be based at the Papeteries ‒ Image Factory, a flagship venue for digital images

in the Annecy area.

Residents will benefit from calm surroundings conducive to creativity, and the location’s unique dynamism created by the healthy competition among the outstanding animation studios, professionals and teams on-site, including Caribara, Full Story, Gobelins AP3D, Afrika Toon, In the Box, TNZPV Annecy and Les Indiscrets to name but a few.

The residency is awarded to a project. It will be up to the director to decide who in their team would benefit the most from this creative opportunity (the director, the storyboarder, a partner graphic designer, etc.). The mentoring will be provided in French or English only, according to the nationality of the residents.

CITIA will take care of the organisation of the residency beforehand and will ensure that it runs smoothly.

As part of its cultural and artistic work with schools, CITIA may request that the

resident provides assistance during support sessions, meetings or other types of participation.

The Annecy International Animated Film Festival will enable the beneficiaries to take advantage of its network, ensuring that the residents receive high quality support and are teamed up with outstanding mentors: Benjamin Renner, Jérémy Clapin, Florence Miailhe, Sébastien Laudenbach, Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec and Benjamin Massoubre.

Submissions will be accepted from June 2020 until 30 August 2020.

The recipients will be announced in October 2020 for a residency from 5 April to 27 June 2021.

Find out more:

Youth and Animation Team - 2020 Director of Youth and Animation: Tiphaine de Raguenel Head of Animation: Pierre Siracusa Head of France.tv Slash: Antonio Grigolini Head of non-animated programming: Ronan De Longraye Head of Children’s Programming: Patricia Adane Director of operations: Amandine Roussel Management assistants: Tatiana Aderic et Tévi Lawson Pre-school animation manager: Lucile Canault Manager of animation for 6-12-year-olds and programming advisor: Jean-Baptiste Lamotte Manager of hybrid programmes and new formats: Christine Reinaudo Manager of animated programmes: Céline Chesnay Manager of animation R&D: Joseph Jacquet Animated programming advisors: David Jabrane / Martine Baldacchino Acquisitions manager: Claire Heinrich Manager of non-animated programming: Charles-Henri Royer Advisor of non-animated programming: Caroline Marc Youth Programming Acquisitions Manager: Naleka N’Guessan Youth Programming Manager: Catherine Boulogne Youth programming cue sheet managers: François Queste / Delphine Chatton Youth Costumes Manager: Blandine Bidault Digital Project Managers Youth/Animation: Amélie Naux / Catherine Pruvost/ Elsa Krier Community Manager Okoo: Manon Lugas

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