News 2013

Richard receives funding!

Richard receives funding!

We received an early christmas gift from Eurimages. Richard gets 480.000 Euro Eurimages funding.

Thank you very much!

 

European Film Awards

European Film Awards

Ari Folman's "The Congress" won "Best European Animation Feature Film" in Berlin on December 7th. Congratulations also to Studio Rakete, who produced parts of the animation in Hamburg.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Ulysses wishes everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year 2014!

Award for Igor

Award for Igor

We are pleased to report, that Evgeny Ruman won the award for best director for "Igor and the Cranes' Journey" at the Minsk International Film Festival! Congratulations!

Niko 2 won...

Niko 2 won...

the hearts of the young jury (the CineSeekers) of the Cinemagic Children's Festival in Belfast. They voted "Niko 2 - Little brother, big trouble" the winning film in the 6+ age category and so the film won the Emerald Star Award for best feature for a children's audience. Congratulations!

Richard receives funding!

Richard receives funding!

On the 21. August 2013 our new project Richard the Stork received funding from the FFA in the amount of 300.000 €. Now the production will start, as planned, next year! Our team is already looking forward to the work on this touching, exciting and adventurous film.

Niko 2 wins in Tokyo!

Niko 2 wins in Tokyo!

Great news from 21st Tokyo Kinder Film Festival. Niko 2 - Little Brother, Big Trouble won the Grand Prix of the best film in feature section! The award was selected by their kinder jurors.

This also means that Niko 2 will be screened at the upcoming big event Tokyo International Film Festival (17.-25.10.), as it is the winner of the Grand Prix.

 

Richard the Stork gets production funding

Richard the Stork gets production funding

In the last meeting of the FFHSH, we have been awarded with 400.000 €  production funding for our new film “Richard the Stork”. We are very pleased , because the little stork nowvalso has a nest in Hamburg!

Noah - It's going ahead

Noah - It's going ahead

Global Screen reports more sales of our film “Ooops! Noah is gone…” at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film is in production at the moment and the currently developing storyboard promises a really funny entertaining and touching story.

Richard the Stork in Global Screen Line-Up

Richard the Stork in Global Screen Line-Up

Now it's official: Global Screen took over world sales for our animation feature film "Richard the Stork", which we produce together with Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur in Berlin. For the first time the film is in the Global Screen Line-Up at Cannes Film Festival!

Cinema release Thor

Cinema release Thor

On April 11th 2013 „Legends of Valhalla – Thor” is coming to german cinemas!
We are looking forward to the release of our exciting animation feature film about the Icelandic saga about the young hero Thor.
The German Distributor is Koch Media.

Rating for Thor

Rating for Thor

Our project Thor got the "rating particularly valuable" from the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden. We are very happy about that and can't wait for our exciting animation feature film, about the icelandic saga around the young hero Thor, to be released in german cinemas on April 11th.



The Distributor in Germany is Koch Media.



The film won two national Edda awards (Icelandic Oscar) for Best Editor (Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir) and Best Production Design (Gunnar Karlsson). It was nominated for 6 Edda awards.

And the Jussi goes to…Niko 2?!

And the Jussi goes to…Niko 2?!

Great news from Finland! Niko 2 is nominated in four categories for the finnish Oscar, the Jussi:



BEST PICTURE - Antti & Petteri & Hannu

BEST SCREENPLAY - Hannu & Marteinn
BEST MUSIC - Stephen

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN - Mikko

The award is taking place on the 3rd Febuary, 2013.

We are excited!

Happy new Year!

Happy new Year!

We wish everyone a happy and succesfull new year and we are looking forward to 2013!