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.

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.

Jack and Pedro in Canada

New Adventures with Jack and Pedro - Papa Pedro Papa Jack has just been screened at REELKIDS festival in Petersborough, Canada. "Wonderfully amusing" to quote the description in their programme... :D

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.

Child talking about Papa Pedro Papa Jack at Sprockets

This kid at the Sprockets Film Festival in Canada talks about what part he likes the best in Papa Pedro Papa Jack:

"I like when the penguin sang, and when the elephant went outside and sang with him."
"Would you recommend this to your friends?"
"Yes, I would!"

Watch the clip at:
http://www.sprockets.ca/player.aspx?video=LootBagPedro.flv

Sweet! :D

Jack and Pedro at Variety's blog

Last year New Adventures with Jack and Pedro was screened at Redcat International Childen's Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA. This blogger at variety.com commented our film at two of his "five top things" from the festival... :)

Published February 17, 2008:

Top five things about Redcat's kid's fest

Top five things about the 3rd annual Redcat International Children's Film Festival in downtown LA, running now through March 2:

5. You can cry and laugh as loud as you want and not be asked to leave.

4. You don't have to be high to watch animals talk, and to understand them. (see #2)

3. Wearing diapers to save a bathroom run is okay.

2. No one questions the domestic partnership between a turtle and a snake in "New Adventures with Jack and Pedro" (Sweden). They both like tea. Why wouldn't they live together? I mean... Duh!

1. Five bucks!

Michael Jones is the film festival editor atVariety.com.

http://www.variety.com/blog/1390000339-33848.html

Papa Pedro Papa Jack in Toronto

New Adventures with Jack and Pedro - Papa Pedro Papa Jack has been selected to be part of the Sprockets International Film Festival for Children in Toronto, Canada. The festival will be taking place from April 18th to April 24th 2009.

For more information on the festival visit the sprockets website

Watch the trailer for New Adventures With Jack and Pedro here.

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/