Dandelooo, Vivi Film Partner in 'The Upside Down River'

Dandelooo, Vivi Film Partner in 'The Upside Down River'


French Emmy Award-winning animation production and distribution company Dandelooo and Belgian independent film production company Vivi Film have announced a partnership from Annecy to co-produce and co-finance the new animated series The river upside down (9 x 26 ′).

The animation studio of Dandelooo Ooolala a la Cartoucherie, Valence (France) will produce the new 2D animation in collaboration with Canal + Family. Directed by Paul Leluc (The wolf, the long vacation), the series aimed at children ages eight to 12 will begin production later this year. Delivery is scheduled for mid-2023, with Dandelooo in charge of worldwide distribution.

The river upside down is based on the fantastic children's novel La rivière à l'envers by leading French children's author Jean Claude Mourlevat, winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2021 (ALMA). Jean-Claude Mourlevat is the first French winner to receive this year's award, the largest prize in the world for children's literature.

Published by Editis Group, La rivière à l'envers has sold over one million copies in France and numerous countries including Japan, China, South Korea, Russia, Spain and Germany. The English version will be published worldwide by Andersen Press in 2022.

Veerle Appelmans, Producer of Vivi Film, said: "We have a heart for authentic images and touching stories. That's why we have lost sight of each other. Upside down river! We look forward to co-producing this poetic and beautiful training series. "

Emmanuèle Pétry Sirvin, co-founder of Dandelooo, added: "My partner Jean-Baptiste Wery and I are so excited to be able to bring this wonderful book to the screen, the kind of story you will always remember for a lifetime. That's it. it is rare to find a magical composition of adventure, friendship, fantasy, nature and strong emotions and we feel privileged that Jean Claude has accepted our desire to adapt his masterpiece and to collaborate with Vivi Film on this fantastic project ".

The river upside down is an adventurous quest in a poetic and fantastic world that follows Hannah's search for water drops from the Qjar River to heal her sacred bird. In her hunt she is followed by Tomek, a shy boy whose world is turned upside down when she walks into his shop.

Dandelooo's productions include the hybrid preschool series The stories of the tree house (in production in season 4, with two stage films), which won an International Emmy Kids Award in 2017; Chico Chica Boumba, commissioned by M6; and the animated feature film Houdini. The company has just delivered smelly dog (52 x 11 ') to France Televisions and TV3 Catalunya, and TV special Mom is raining heavily (WIP in Annecy) at Canal +, is now in production for the preschool series Billy the cowboy hamster (52 x 11 ′). Dandelooo is also developing loguis, an original yoga initiation project for preschool children.



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