Brazilian studio Coala Movies has boarded the Portuguese animated characteristic “Una” from Oscar-shortlisted “Percebes” producer BAP – Animation Studios. With the brand new backing, manufacturing is now able to kick off within the new yr.
“Una,” highlighted throughout a Portuguese Initiatives Pitch at Annecy final June, marks the characteristic movie debut of David Doutel and Vasco Sá, producers at BAP – Animation Studios whose personal shorts as administrators, similar to “Soot” (2014), “Augur” (2018) and “Garrano” (2022) have earned the duo plaudits around the globe.
With “Una,” Doutel and Sá deal with more and more pressing social points, linking the riot of younger Una towards a smoke-belching lithium mine in her village mountain valley to different makes an attempt to push again towards the ravages of rampant eco-destructive capitalism around the globe.
‘Una’
Credit score: BAP – Animation Studios
“Una” is being made with the monetary assist of ICA (Portugal), ANCINE (Brazil), PIC Portugal – Money Rebate and MEDIA Artistic Europe, and is produced by Bando à Parte with co-producers BAP Animation Studios, which dealt with the movie’s pre-production, and, now, Coala Filmes.
“The co-production with our buddies from Coala Filmes in Brazil proved to be elementary because it allowed us to lastly begin the manufacturing of the movie at the start of this new yr,” Sá defined to Selection of the movie’s new accomplice.
“We’re actually completely satisfied to know that part of ‘Una’ shall be made in a rustic meaning a lot to us and with whom we now have such an in depth relationship, each when it comes to the language that unites us and the very theme of the movie, by which we share the identical issues,” he added.
Coala Filmes is an animation studio with greater than 20 years of expertise. It’s catalog contains the brief movies “Dossiê Rê Bordosa” and “Tempestade” in addition to the standout characteristic “Bob Spit – We Don’t Like Individuals,” the corporate’s first characteristic which premiered within the Contrechamp competitors at Annecy 2021, the place it received the part’s greatest movie prize. It was additionally the primary Latin American movie to obtain the Grand Prix on the equally prestigious Ottawa Worldwide Animation Movie Competition.
Though most of the most important items of “Una’s” manufacturing puzzle are actually in place, extra collaborators might be on the way in which.
“We’re nonetheless working with some attainable companions to see in the event that they’ll be part of us on this journey, so we’ll actually have extra information quickly,” says Sá.