iPRODUCTNEWS 9 STORY ENTERTAINMENT
ECHO MEDIA
INCLUDED in the 9 Story Entertainment preschool slate is: Peg + Cat (80 x 12 mins); Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (80 x 11 mins/40 x 22 mins); and Guess How Much I Love You (52 x 11 mins), the first adaptation of the best-selling picture book that has sold more than 22 million copies worldwide.
TASTE Buds features two very different characters, Suggy and Curry, who live in a world of spices. The simple humorous stories are targeted at kids aged six to 12. The Montreal based Echo Media also brings Toopy And Binoo Vroom Vroom Zoom, which combines liveaction characters and animated images in the fun-filled universe of a cat and mouse team.
Guess How Much I Love You (9 Story Entertainment)
Taste Buds (Echo Media)
ARTE
FRANCe’s ARTE brings a slate of youth-focused HD
documentaries to MIPCOM, including: Geolino (20 x 13 mins), portraying the daily lives and animal stories of children around the world; cooking series Sarah Wiener And The Kitchen Kids (10 x 43 mins); and Budding Stars (6 x 26 mins +1 x 20 mins/HD), which follows the 130 pupils aged eight to 18 who attend the Paris Opera Ballet School, all driven by the desire one day to dance on the Paris Opera stage.
PGS ENTERTAINMENT
PGS entertainment brings a catalogue of over 1,000 half hours of programming to MIPCOM, including: Heroes United, Robin Hood – Mischief In Sherwood, The Little Prince, Chaplin And Co, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, all titles from Method Animation; Stan Lee’s Mighty Seven, Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab, Secret KidVenture Club, Martha And Friends, Gisele And The Green Team from A Squared Entertainment; The Jungle Bunch and Spike from TAT Productions; League Of Super Evil from Nerd Corps Entertainment; Marsupilami Hoobah Hoobah Hop! From Samka; Leon and Gees from Studio Hari; One Minute Before from Prod Par 4; and Mister Otter from La Station Animation.
MOVIOCA CONTENT HOUSE
BRAZILIAN producer Movioca is highlighting two animation titles at MIPCOM. Tiny And The Umbrella is about a little girl who feeds her carnivore plant daily with ants who come up with a plan to protect themselves. The Zoonets is about a diverse group of young animals who work together to start a soccer championship.
Heroes United (PGS Entertainment)
PICTURE BOX DISTRIBUTION
CANADA’s Picture Box brings the new stop-motion animated series Guardians (6 x 30 mins) to MIPCOM. Produced in association with APTN in Canada, the series follows five youths fighting to survive after a mass extinction event, 41 million years in the future. These Guardians must now rebuild civilisation.
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LADY Bug [26 x 26 mins/3D) features youngsters Marinette and Adrien who have been chosen to save Paris and capture the evil creatures called Akumas by transforming into superheroes — however, they don’t know each other’s true identities. The series is commissioned by TF1 and SK Broadband.
Tiny And The Umbrella (Movioca Content House)
SATO COMPANY
RONALDINHO Gaucho’s Team is a series of cartoons
based on a comic character created by Mauricio de Sousa. Ronaldinho is a quiet and cheerful boy who loves samba, funk and rap, and also happens to be a magician on the football pitch. The show, brought to MIPCOM by Brazil’s Sato, is aimed at kids aged four to seven.
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Ronaldinho Gaucho’s Team (Sato Company)
Guardians (Picture Box Distribution)
DHX MEDIA
CANADIAN producer and distributor DHX Media brings to MIPCOM the story of a young man who mysteriously receives a pair of magic pants. Young Kyle puts on the glowing pants and is transformed into Dr. Dimensionpants, a superhero with powers of space, time — and a moustache, though he must still cope with homework, girls, and his annoyingly smart sister. Dr. Dimensionpants (26 x 30 mins) is currently in production. Dr. Dimensionpants (DHX Media)
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