Boo and Baa around the world...

Boo and Baa Have Company (2008) is going to festivals in 2011 too! It has now been selected to be part of the 6th Annual Children's Film Festival Seattle, the 6th annual REDCAT International Children’s Film in Los Angeles, Freeze Frame 15th annual Festival in Winnipeg, Canada, and International Children's Film Carnival, Hong Kong.

Seattle and Los Angeles are also screening Sixten, Bedtime, a short film that was animated by Röda Roboten Animation and directed by Liselotte Blomberg of the Swedish Television.

So far Boo and Baa Have Company has been screened at and accepted to festivals in Sweden, Japan, Norway, Germany, Mexico, Uruguay, Indonesia, Brazil, Great Britain, Iran, Slovakia, Bangladesh, Czech Republic, India, China, Canada and USA!

Röda Roboten wishes to thank the fantastic Renate Zylla for helping us with contacts to many of these festivals! You can read an interview with this experienced and committed festival agent and festival director at ECFA's website. Her support and her appreciation of our films Boo and Baa Have Company and Sixten, has meant a lot to us!

Two Röda Roboten-films at Divercine Festival in Uruguay.

Boo and Baa Have Company and Sixten have been selected to be part of this year's Divercine Festival for Children and Youth in Uruguay. The festival takes place from 12'th to 18'th of July 2010.

To see a short clip from Boo and Baa Have Company click here. For Sixten click here.

Short report from Stuttgart Animation Festival

Boo and Baa Have Company was screened in the "Tricks for Kids" section of the Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart a couple of weeks ago. I went there for the weekend to watch some great new animation and to attend my screening of course.

The weather had been bad with lots of rain during the festival week, but when I got there on the saturday the sun was shining and it was almost summer compared with cold, cold Stockholm!

Boo and Baa was screened on the final sunday of the festival in the Metropol 1. This venue has 360 seats and it was full to the last seat! (Watch a clip from Boo and Baa Have Company here!)

There were lots of kids in the audience and they seemed to like Boo and Baa a lot! The film was live-dubbed into German by a voice actor. After the screening I got to answer the children's questions about how the film was made. It was great fun! One of the kids took the mic just to tell me he liked this film! :)

The award ceremony on the sunday evening was a bit boring for me since I don't understand German. But the good part of it was I got to see all the winning short films! Boo and Baa was beaten in the Tricks fot Kids section by the half hour long "The Gruffalo" by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang.

The winner of the short film section A family portrait by Joseph Pierce was excellent! (The image above) Very funny and grotesque! And another brilliant short is the winner of best music award Love & Theft by Andreas Hykade. Hypnotic!

All in all a great weekend in Stuttgart! (written by Anna)

Boo and Baa Have Company goes to Uruguay and Brazil!

Boo and Baa Have Company has been selected to be part of the Divercine Film Festival of Children and Youth in Montevideo, Uruguay. The festival takes place from 12'th to 18'th of July 2010. Click here for the Divercine website (only in Spanish).

It has also been selected to be in the competitive Shorts for Children-section at Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The festival takes place from 16'th to 25'th of July in Rio de Janeiro, and 28'th of July to 1'st of August in Sao Paulo. Click here for a comlete list of selected films at the Anima Mundi website.

Three Röda Roboten-films at Goelali Children's Film Festival!

Boo and Baa Have Company, Papa Pedro Papa Jack and The Ballerina Frog has all been selected to be part of the Goelali Children's Film Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia!

The festival will take place from June 12th - 20th at the Miniapolis & Multifunction Hall, Plaza Indonesia, Jakarta. If you are in the neighbourhood go and check it out! For more info about the festival visit their website.

Bu och Bä i Midsommarkransen

Nu på söndag den 25 april kan du se barnfilmspaketet Bu och Bä och Jaguaren på biografen Tellus i Midsommarkransen, Stockholm. Filmpaketet visas kl 15.00 och kostar bara 30 kr!

För att hitta till Tellus-biografen klicka här.

Boo and Baa in Germany and in the Czech Republic!

Boo and Baa Have Company has been selected to be part of the competitive programme "Tricks for Kids" at this year's Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany. The festival takes place from May 6'th to 9'th, 2010.

It has also been selected into the competitive section of animated films for children at ZLÍN 2010 – 50th International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlín, Czech Republic. The festival takes place from May 30'th to June 6'th, 2010.

See you there!

Boo and Baa in India

Boo and Baa Have Company has been selected to be part of the Short Animation Competition Section of the 2nd CMS International Film Festival in Lucknow, India. (6 - 12 April 2010)

For more information about the festival visit their website.

Röda Roboten-filmer på bio

På Fyrisbiografen i Uppsala visas nu Bu och Bä får besök på lördagar och söndagar kl. 14.00. Filmpaketet fick fyra kajor i Uppsala Nya Tidning i förra veckan. "Ibland kan man känna abstinensen efter små barn att gå på biomatiné med. Extra mycket känns det när jag ser ett så utmärkt program som dessa tre små animerade filmer..." (Björn G Stenberg, UNT)

På Södran i Lund visas Ballerinagrodan (fram till den 25 februari) och Jack och Pedro på nya äventyr (den 28 februari till 18 mars).

Tellus bio i Midsommarkransen, Stockholm, visar Bu och Bä får besök söndagen den 18 och sändagen den 25 april.

Bu och Bä får besök - gratis på Filmhuset!

På söndag den 6 december har Svenska Filminstitutet barnfilmsdag med gratis visningar av svenska animerade barnfilmer. Bu och Bä får besök visas i det första filmpaketet för dagen.

Andra filmer som visas är den underbara Dunderklumpen av Per Åhlin och Beppe Wolgers, Prick och Fläck snöar in av Lotta och Uzi Geffenblad och Vem ska trösta Knyttet? av Johan Hagelbäck.

För program och tider klicka här

November update

Röda Roboten has just finished making two new opening credits for the SVT children's programmes En stund med and Ella och Viktor. The programmes will be broadcasted in the spring 2010. The opening credits we made will be posted on our website soon.

We are also making animations for an educational DVD. More information about that shortly.

Other news are that Boo and Baa Have Company has just been screened at Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway.

Boo and Baa at Tokyo International Film Festival

Although Boo and Baa Have Company did not get the award for best film at Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival in Tokyo last week, it still won a new audience in Japan. It was very well recieved by the audience and the festival staff.

At the festival Boo and Baa Have Company was selected to be screened as part of "Best of Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival Tokyo at TIFF". Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) takes place from 17th - 25th of October 2009.

Galapremiär på Zita

I väntan på att vi själva får upp några bilder här från premiären på Zita kommer här en länk till Lars Epsteins blogg på DN där han lagt upp ett par fina bilder från evenemanget.

Bu och Bä premiär på bio

Nu är det dags för nästa premiär! Bu och Bä får besök kommer att visas av Folkets Bio i ett knattepaket tillsammans med Jaguaren av Mattias Gordon och Schack av Pernilla Hindsefelt.

Lördagen den 4 april är premiären på biografen Zita i Stockholm. För tider och visningar i andra städer klicka på "biografer" på www.folketsbio.se

Bu och Bä på SVT

För er som (liksom vi själva) missade TV-visningen av Bu och Bä får besök på SVTB för ett par veckor sedan kommer nu en chans till:

Lördagen den 21 mars kl. 08.35 kommer den att visas i Barnkanalen (SVTB). Så masa er upp ur sängen och bänka er framför Bolibompa!

Boo and Baa in Gothenburg

There is still a chance of watching Boo and Baa at Gothenburg Film Festival! It is screened in the programme "Svenska Bilder 5" on friday 30 january.

The premiere screening was great fun! The festival audience was giggling most of the time, and laughing out loud sometimes too. We are looking forward to watching the film with more kids in the audience to see if they giggle at the same jokes!

Boo and Baa world premiere

The world premiere for Boo and Baa will be at the Gothenburg International Film Festival 2009.

Screenings on january 23, 26 and 30.

The festival also have an extra focus on animation this year, so go there!

http://www.filmfestival.org/filmfestival/

Behind the scenes - Boo and Baa have company

Here are some images from when we built the sets for Boo and Baa.

If you take a look at the book Boo and Baa, Have Company (Bu och Bä får besök) by Lena and Olof Landström, you will see that the models we built is looking very much like the original illustrations. We wanted to keep the world for Boo and Baa very close to the world kids already recognize from reading the books. But we also wanted to give Boo and Baa a more real world for the film. We wanted to give the picture more depth, so we choose to build models instead of using illustrations for the backgrounds.

Here is a collage I made to find the feeling of the garden.

Then I made a simple mock-up in the studio, to get the size and perspective right.

I put the picture in the computer to pick colours for the houses.

Then we started building the houses. Here is Annika Bergström painting.

The houses in place in the studio. Annika at the camera.

The photo for the background turned out like this (after some adjusting in photoshop).

And the image from the finished film.

(written by Anna Erlandsson)

Bu och Bä får besök / Boo and Baa have company

We have just finished making an 8-min short film for children, Bu och Bä får besök / Boo and Baa have Company, based on the book with the same name by Lena and Olof Landström.

Working with us on this project was Annika Bergström (inniki) as model maker and animator. Producer was Francy Suntinger (Speedfilm), narrator Sissela Kyle, music by Markus Jägerstedt (Monster och maskiner, Cirqus Alfon), sound and mix Torsten Rundqvist (ljud & form).

The film will be screened at Folkets Bio and broadcasted on the Swedish Television in the beginning of 2009. Dates will be posted on this page later so check back with us soon.