DANDELOOO TO PRODUCE WINNING SHORT FILM “HAUT PERCHÉ!”

Emmy Award-winning French animation production and distribution company Dandelooo is set to produce “Haut Perché!” (English working title ‘High Perched’), the winner of this year’s TFOU d’Animation Contest, TF1 Group’s annual European animation short film competition.

After the TFOU d’Animation Prize was awarded to Laetitia Salsano, scriptwriter of the “Haut Perché!”, a Call for Talent Directing was launched among young animation school graduates trained in the 2D technique.

Emeline Penet, a graduate from l’EMCA (Ecole des Métiers d’Art et d’Animation, Angoulême), won the Call for Talent Directing and will direct the one minute thirty second film “Haut Perché!”, based on the award-winning script.  This year’s theme “Nature, Our Greatest Adventure!”, encourages children to drop the all-consuming screen activities to go out to play, create their own games and experience an invigorating adventure filled with laughter and to love nature and protect it for the future.

Co-financed by the TFI Group and SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques), “Haut Perché!” will be produced by Dandelooo.  The completed short film will be screened at MIFA 2022, Annecy, and broadcast on all TF1’s linear and digital screens from June 2022.

“We were charmed by the originality and freshness of Emeline’s proposal, which reflects her talent and enthusiasm.  We are delighted to support Emeline in the creation of this ode to Nature and proud to have the renewed and continued confidence of TF1 for the 4th year”, commented Dandelooo’s co-producers Jean-Baptiste Wery and Emmanuèle Pétry.

About Dandelooo

Dandelooo is a French award-winning creative company based in Paris dedicated to the development, production, and distribution of original and ambitious animated programs.

Dandelooo’s productions include the hybrid pre-school series The Treehouse Stories (three seasons on air, a 4th in production and two theatrical films), which won an International Emmy Kids Award in 2017, Chico Chica Boumba commissioned by M6 and the animated feature film Houdini.

The company has just delivered Stinky Dog (52 x 11′) to France Televisions and TV3 Catalunya, and the wonderful TV Special Mum is pouring rain (winner of a Jury Award for a TV Special at Annecy 2021) to Canal+, is now in production for the pre-school series Billy the Cowboy Hamster (52 x 11′) and is about to start production for The Upside Down River (8 x 26′) a serialized series for kids based on the cult novel by Jean Claude Mourlevat.  Dandelooo is also developing loguis, an original project to initiate yoga for preschoolers.

On the international sales front, Dandelooo is very proud to distribute Shooom’s Odyssey (Annecy Cristal 2020 as best TV Special), the preschool series Jasmine & Jambo and the new meaningful Dounia.

Dandelooo has its own studio, Ooolala, in la Cartoucherie (Valence, France) and a sales office in Barcelona, Spain.

About TFOU

TFOU, TF1’s youth section, is the favorite TV program for children aged 4-10 in France.  Each year, TFOU offers more than 750 hours of youth programs on its antenna.  In 2021, TFOU achieved excellent performance, reaching an average of 35% pda among children aged 4-10 (Source Médiamétrie: since January 2021 outside school holidays

About SACD

Chaired by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, author, and directed by Pascal Rogard, General Manager, the SACD is the oldest society of authors in the world, founded in 1777 by Beaumarchais, it belongs to the authors who are its members.  It represents more than 55,000 audiovisual, cinema, digital creation, and live performance authors.  It collectively manages and defends their rights, provides them with a large number of services, accompanies them in their professional life and supports, thanks to the remuneration system for private copying, contemporary creation, and the distribution of works.  The SACD is also very involved in the defense of cultural diversity and is present in national and international bodies to protect authors and their works, defend their status and their conditions of remuneration.  Since the start of the health crisis, the SACD has been managing sectoral emergency funds for the authors of its directories.  More information on www.sacd.fr