EXCLUSIVE: Studio 100 Film has sold the CGI-animated feature Heidi – Rescue Of The Lynx to numerous territories ahead of its market premiere at
EXCLUSIVE: Studio 100 Film has sold the CGI-animated feature Heidi – Rescue Of The Lynx to numerous territories ahead of its market premiere at Cannes’ Marché du Film on Thursday (May 15).
The Munich-based sales company has secured distribution deals for France (Apollo Films), Baltics (ACME Film), Poland (Kino Świat), Portugal (NOS Lusomundo Audiovisuais), Italy (Adler Entertainment), UK (Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment), Hungary, Moldova, and Romania (ADS Service), former Yugoslavia (Blitz), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Bohemia Motion Pictures), Ukraine (Green Light Films), Turkey (Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi), Greece (Zinos Panagiotidis), Israel (FilmHouse), and Iceland (Myndform).
The project is based on the novels of Johanna Spyri and directed by Tobias Schwarz. It is a co-production between Studio 100 International, 3Doubles Producciones, and Hotel Hungaria Animation, in association with Studio Isar Animation.
Inspired by the original story, Heidi is an all-new adventure about a girl who from the Swiss Alps who must return a newborn lynx back to its family in the mountains.
Schwarz will be making his directorial debut after previously working as a storyboard artist on The Queen’s Corgi, Maya The Bee: The Golden Orb and Richard The Stork And The Mystery Of The Great Jewel, and as a character animator on several features for Disney and Fox Animation Studios.
Heidi – Rescue Of The Lynx will have its world premiere in the competition section of the German Children’s Media Festival – Golden Sparrow in Erfurt on June 4 and be released theatrically in Germany by Leonine on June 26.
Studio 100 Film’s Cannes slate also includes Bente Lohne’s modern retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen in North, Octavio Rodríguez’s tale of biodiversity and conservation On The Edge, and José and Cesar Zelada’s Amazonian adventure Toxic – Miracle Of The Jungle following the exploits of the extraordinary dart frog Dante.
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