StudioCanal sells stellar animation package to RAI Italy ahead of MIPCOM Junior
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STUDIOCANAL, Europe’s leader in production, distribution and international sales of TV series and feature films, has sold three seasons of the funny and moving children’s animation series Esther’s Notebooks (Les Cahiers D’Esther) to Italian public broadcaster RAI.
Esther’s Notebooks (©2018 FOLIMAGE LES FILMS DU FUTUR LES COMPAGNONS DU CINEMA CANAL, image via STUDIOCANAL)
The deal follows the successful partnership with RAI which has also acquired Emmy® Award-winning animation series The Adventures of Paddington Season 1, as well as securing the second season of this global hit animation franchise.
We are delighted to see these entertaining animation series travel to free TV in Italy. In their original print format Esther’s Notebooks are best-sellers and have already been translated into eight languages with more than one million copies sold to date. The Adventures of Paddington 1 and 2 are heart-warming animation series which take the lead from Michael Bond’s original books. While at the outset both series appear very different, they each deliver a unique take on life as seen through innocent and curious eyes and we are sure that they will have strong appeal to young viewers throughout Italy.
–Beatriz Campos, SVP Global Sales and Production Financing at Studiocanal
Esther’s Notebooks is adapted from the acclaimed books by comic artist and film-maker Riad Sattouf, and looks at life today through Esther’s wide, ten-year-old eyes. Esther delivers an incisive and yet sympathetic take on the world around us, gently mocking our current society with her fresh, innocent and yet very frank observations about her family, friends and the people she meets every day. Created and written by Riad Sattouf and Mathias Varin, Esther’s Notebooks is a CANAL+, Folimage, Les Films du Futur and Les Compagnons du Cinema production for CANAL+.
The Adventures of Paddington (©2021 P&Co. Ltd.SC, image via STUDIOCANAL)
The first series of The Adventures of Paddington has been a global hit, travelling to every corner of the world, and won two Daytime Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Preschool Animated Series and Outstanding Writing Team for a Preschool Animated Program in 2021. The heart-warming, popular children’s series is about being curious, being good to others and being part of a loving family. Each 11-minute episode, within the spirit of the highly successful Paddington movies with a third just announced, tells a brand-new story in an exciting new animated form. The series is written by Jon Foster and James Lamont and produced by Heyday Films, STUDIOCANAL, COPYRIGHTS GROUP with the participation of M6.