Animanimals
by Julia Ocker

Collection, 52 x 4 min, 2D-Animation, aimed at children from four to eight

In each film of the ANIMANIMALS, the audience can get friends with another animal. The stars of the little adventures are lovable characters with certain qualities, that seem to be handicaps first, but turn out to be advantages: a ZEBRA, who’s stripes get confused, an OCTOPUS, who has an argument with one of his arms, an ANT, who opposes to the group pressure, or a SLOTH, who is licking more slowly than the icecream is melting.

The Festival tour proves, that the little quirks lead to success. The collection got 77 awards in 22 countries. It is a phenomenon, that the ANIMANIMALS won reapeatedly at many of these festivals. Most of them were audience awards. The festival success is possible, because every episode works as an individual short film. That’s why the ANIMANIMALS are rather a collection than a series. Nevertheless they conquer TV all over the world. The distributor Meta Media could sell the collection to more than 180 territories already. On YouTube, there were 140 million views. 

Nobody can stop the ANIMANIMALS on their quirky way to fame!

Animanimals
by Julia Ocker

Collection, 52 x 4 min, 2D-Animation, aimed at children from four to eight

In each film of the ANIMANIMALS, the audience can get friends with another animal. The stars of the little adventures are lovable characters with certain qualities, that seem to be handicaps first, but turn out to be advantages: a ZEBRA, who’s stripes get confused, an OCTOPUS, who has an argument with one of his arms, an ANT, who opposes to the group pressure, or a SLOTH, who is licking more slowly than the icecream is melting.

The Festival tour proves, that the little quirks lead to success. The collection got 77 awards in 22 countries. It is a phenomenon, that the ANIMANIMALS won reapeatedly at many of these festivals. Most of them were audience awards. The festival success is possible, because every episode works as an individual short film. That’s why the ANIMANIMALS are rather a collection than a series. Nevertheless they conquer TV all over the world. The distributor Meta Media could sell the collection to more than 180 territories already. On YouTube, there were 140 million views. 

Nobody can stop the ANIMANIMALS on their quirky way to fame!

Script & Direction: Julia Ocker
Design: Julia Ocker, Kiana Naghshineh, Christoph Horch, Paul Cichon
Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Story Advisor: Andreas Hykade
Technical Director: Ralf Bohde
Production Assistance: Bianca Just
Layout: Sveta Yuferova, Ralf Bohde
Rigging and Compositing: Ralf Bohde
Animatic: Anselm Pyta, Elena Walf, Christoph Horch
Animation: Julia Ocker, Jacky de Groen, Ferdinand Engländer, Sveta Yuferova, Urte Zintler, Ina Gabriel, Dirk Reddig
Sounddesign: Christian Heck, Sumophonic
Music: Christian Heck, Sumophonic - Viaphoniker & Orchester der Frankfurter Musikfreunde
Theme Song: Claudia Kaiser, Martin Lickleder
Co-Production: KiKA / SWR
Supervision KiKA: Sebastian Debertin
Production Executive KiKA: Stefan Pfäffle, Anne-Kathrin Becker
Production Executive SWR: Benjamin Manns
Funding: MFG Baden-Württemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Production: Studio Film Bilder, 2018

Awards:
Audience Award, New York International Children’s Film Festival (2015 and 2016)
Best Short Animation, children's jury, Children’s Film Festival Mexico City, (2016 and 2018)
Audience Honorary Award, small children section, Barcelona Children’s Film Festival (2015, 2017, 2018)
Kids Audience Award, Fantoche Animation Festival, Baden (2018 and 2019)
Award of the Young Audience (3-6), Festival Silhouette, Paris (2018 and 2019)
Best Children’s Film, Bamberger Kurzfilmtage (2015, 2018, 2019)
Knax Children’s Film Award, Bayreuther Filmfest (2018 and 2019)
and many more

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