Pink Parrot Media announce international partners for animated feature ‘Elli and her Monster Team!’
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Montreal/Madrid-based international sales company Pink Parrot Media (PPM) has secured a wave of deals for its forthcoming and recently completed CG animated fantasy feature, Elli and her Monster Team! – a co-production between Germany’s Zooper Film, Dreamin’ Dolphin Film (Latte and the Magic Waterstone) and Traumhaus Studios alongside Canada’s Carpediem Film & TV (Snowtime!, Racetime, Butterfly Tale). Pink Parrot Media is representing Elli and her Monster Team! at the European Film Market in Berlin, during which the feature will also have its market premiere.
Elli and her Monster Team! (Pink Parrot Media, image via DDA)
The film has sold to Just Entertainment (Benelux), Bim Distribuzione (Italy), NOS Lusomundo (Portugal), Flins&Piniculas (Spain), GPI (Baltics), Pro Films (Bulgaria), Rocket Releasing (CIS), Forum (Czech Republic/Slovak), MCF Megacom Film (Former Yugoslavia), Cinetel (Hungary), Forum (Poland, Romania and Israel) and Front Row (Middle East). Additionally, Elli and her Monster Team! will be released in Germany in June by Wildbunch and by Level Film and Maison 4:3 in Canada.
Based on the best-selling children’s book by Klaus Baumgart, Elli and her Monster Team! is directed by Jesper Møller (Asterix and the Vikings, Spy Cat) and Piet de Rycker (Laura’s Star, Little Polar Bear) and co-directed by Jens Møller (Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures). The feature is co-written by Jesper Møller, Piet de Rycker and Paul Risacher (Racetime). Producers are Lilian Klages and Thomas G. Muller for Zooper Film and Dreamin’ Dolphin Film alongside Marie Claude Beauchamp for CarpeDiem Film & TV and Michael Luda for Traumhaus Studios, with Executive Producers including Marc Gabizon for Wildbunch and Tania Pinto Da Cunha for Pink Parrot Media.
When a homeless little ghost knocks on the door to the eccentric residents of a Ghost Train on the lookout for a place to belong, she accidentally attracts the attention from the “outside world” and must team up with the motley crew of monsters on a crazy quest not only to save their future, but also her only chance to finally have a family of her own.
Elli and her Monster Team! (Pink Parrot Media, image via DDA)
The story of Elli and her Monster Team! couldn’t be more timely as it offers audiences important messages of love, acceptance and inclusion – and it’s fantastic to have partners from all around the world embrace this uplifting story. Jesper and Piet have crafted a hilarious and wonderfully original adventure, which we believe has the potential to capture the hearts of family audiences around the world and to become an instant classic.
-Tania Pinto Da Cunha (Partner/Vice-President and Head of International Sales & Acquisitions, Pink Parrot Media)
Through Elli and her Monster Team!, we wish to show that people can change and that life itself is not a solid block, but a malleable path through a spectrum of experiences from which everyone grows to become a better person.
-Marie Claude Beauchamp (President & Producer, CarpeDiem)
Elli and her Monster Team! is a truly fabulous film for families everywhere, of all ages and all constellations. And just like Elli learns in this unique and heartwarming story: real emotional attachments you choose with your heart – and no matter who and what we are, we’re all part of the same big universal family.
-Lilian Klages (CEO & Producer, Zooper Film, Dreamin’ Dolphin Film)
Pink Parrot Media will be at the Canadian Pavilion at EFM (Stand #151 in the MGB), with the Market Screenings for “Elli and her Monster Team!” taking place on Friday 16 February (dffb-Kino) at 19.05 and Sunday 18 February (CinemaxX 18) at 15.00.