YELLOW GIRAFFE
Yellow Giraffe´s Animal Stories
Poets and short storylines 1 -7 - 8 -14 - 15 -26
The Sun is a Yellow Giraffe - Poets and short storylines 1- 5 , 6 -10
YELLOW GIRAFFE'S ANIMAL STORIES
Animated television series 26 x 7 minutes with stories inspired by poems about animals
Genre: enchanting stories • Age-group: 4 – 8 years • Animation technique: cut-out/computer
Concept: Stories inspired by famous poems from different countries. The Yellow Giraffe narrates the films and shares the adventures of her friends.
The internationally award-winning series, The Sun is a Yellow Giraffe is now followed by an independent sequel of 26 Animal Stories with the same bright, artistic, magical appearance, on subjects that every child can relate to. Each part tells about a different animal and includes a poem. The tales tell of wild animals from the tiger to the seal, and about familiar pets like a cat and a dog. The films move from the jungles of Borneo to the glaciers of Greenland. Yellow Giraffe is in all the stories, looking after her friends, be they animals or people, and sharing their adventures.
These enchanting stories are inspired by such writers as William Blake, Heinrich Hoffmann, Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle and Federico Garcìa Lorca, and are set in different cultures and social environments. Each episode is humorous and surprising and deals with feelings and experiences familiar to children. The themes are important emotional items that occur in the everyday life of each child: freedom, love, death, friendship, family life, jealousy, sorrow and happiness.
Animals are the main actors in these stories. In her role as spectator, Yellow Giraffe looks after her friends and shares their adventures. She recites poetry and wields magic powers and is an ideal fantasy friend for the children who will love these stories.
Jaana Wahlforss wrote the scripts and the graphics are designed by Antonia Ringbom, who also draws the images, and both have together directed the films. Animation by Reetta Neittaanmäki, Maija Rajala, Lotta Rapeli, Karri Aronen and Antti Remes and Jyrki Kanto The music has been composed by Toni Nuotio and Ville Hukkinen. Jarno Sipilä and Tomi Nikulainen made the sound design. The series has been produced by Epidem ZOT/Mikael Wahlforss.
The series about animals follows a first successful series based on poems, The Sun is a Yellow Giraffe, 10 x 5 minutes, about children in different cultures.
Script: Jaana Wahlforss • Directors: Jaana Wahlforss/Antonia Ringbom • Graphic design: Antonia Ringbom • Production: Epidem ZOT
The series has shown on TV in the Nordic countries by YLE (TV2 and FST), Finland, SVT, Sweden and NRK, Norway.
Distribution outside the Nordic countries: Telescreen
DVD distribution in Finland by FS-Film and in Sweden by SF
Festival distribution handled by The Finnish Film Foundation. Please contact Ms. Marja Pallassalo
Supported by:
The Nordic Film- & TV fund,
The Finnish Film Foundation,
AVEK and Swedish Cultural Fund
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Yellow Giraffe's Animal Stories
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Links:
Yleisradio (www.yle.fi)
FS-Film (www.fs-film.fi)
SF Svensk Filmindustri (www.sf.se)
Telescreen (www.telescreen.nl)
The Finnish Film Foundation (www.ses.fi)
Copyright©Epidem ZOT 2006
Epidem ZOT
Sepänkatu 15 B, 00150 Helsinki, Finland
Tel +358 9 6846612 Fax +358 9 6846614 E-mail: wahlforss@epidem.pp.fi
Copyright©Epidem ZOT 2006