iPRODUCTNEWS ATOMIC CARTOONS
VANCOUVER-based Atomic’s MIPCOM slate includes: Minimum Wage (26 x 22 mins/in development), a mixture of live action and animation, about two 15-year-olds with ambitious life plans; Max Mashup (52 x 11 mins/in development) about a boy who discovers a Mash-Up ray that causes havoc; and Sprig (1 x 92 mins) a futuristic tale about a young woman who fights against a dictator ruling an Earth with no plant life.
CYBER GROUP STUDIOS
FROM France’s Cyber Group comes: Mademoiselle Zazie (78 x 7 mins), about inseparable friends Zazie and Max and their friends who have fun trying to understand the world of adults; Mia (39 x 11 mins), about a six-yearold mouse who lives in the depths of a large house, with her Granny Mimi, friends and neighbours; and adventure comedy series Mini Ninjas (52 x 11 mins) about the young warriors who defend the Land Below The Clouds.
ZODIAK KIDS
AIMED at boys and girls, Extreme Football (39 x 26 mins), from Zodiak Kids’ Tele Images Productions, follows five teams of teenagers who compete every weekend in a spectacular extreme football tournament. The series adds to other sports-themed series from Tele Images, Street Football (78 x 26 mins) and The Basketeers (52 x 26 mins).
Extreme Football (Zodiak Kids)
Mademoiselle Zazie (Cyber Group Studios)
ZDF ENTERPRISES (ZDFE) Minimum Wage (Atomic Cartoons)
NHK
DESIGN Ah! II, from Japan’s NHK, encourages children and adults to discover the world of design. The programme covers many areas, including building, product, costume, character and music design.
SAM FOX: Extreme Adventures (26 x 26 mins) is a comedy adventure series based on books by Australian author Justin D’Ath. In the animation genre from Germany’s ZDFE comes Q Pootle 5 (52 x 11 mins), about the adventures of a little alien and his friends.
Sounds For Mazin (NPO Sales) 16 I
ELIAS is a little rescue boat that first gained popularity in a Norwegian picture book, and now HIP (Henson Independent Properties), The Jim Henson Company’s third party distribution and licensing banner, has acquired rights from Norway’s Animando for both global consumer products and media distribution for the property. The Jim Henson Company debuts the 52 x 11-minute episodes of the CGI preschool series, Elias: Rescue Team Adventures, currently in production at Caoz Animation in Iceland, at MIPCOM. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) will air the series early next year. Elias: Rescue Team Adventures (The Jim Henson Company)
NPO Sales
YOUTH documentaries from NPO include: Sounds For Mazin (1 x 90 mins), about a boy facing an operation to allow him to hear for the first time; When I Look In The Mirror (1 x 18 mins), about a young girl with severe burn scars; and Jan’s Mom (1 x 16 mins) about a boy coping with his mother’s imprisonment. From the drama catalogue of The Netherlands’ public broadcaster comes Mimoun (1 x 26 mins) about a boy so desperate to buy his girlfriend a gift that he gets dragged into his elder brother’s criminal world; Sweet Love (1 x 25 mins); A Wooly Good Cause (1 x 25 mins); and The Westwick Four (10 x 30 mins).
THE JIM HENSON COMPANY
Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures (ZDFE)
FUTURIKON
FUTURIKON is highlighting new series Trolls Of Troy (78 X 8 mins) at MIPCOM, set in the medieval fantasy world of the Troll village of Phalompe, where a young human girl has been adopted by Trolls. When you’re a Troll, everything that is forbidden elsewhere, is allowed — eating too much, rolling around in the mud, or speaking with your mouth full. Adapted from a French comic-book series, the Paris-based company expects the series to be completed early next year.
Trolls Of Troy (Futurikon)
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