South African Animation the Biggest Winner at Kidscreen Awards
‘Stick Man’, South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios’ collaboration with Magic Light Pictures, won four awards at the Kidscreen Awards last week, making it the most awarded animation on the night.. and bringing its awards total to 11. Stick Man beat Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas and Bruno & Boots: Go Jump In The Pool to […]
‘Stick Man’, South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios’ collaboration with Magic Light Pictures, won four awards at the Kidscreen Awards last week, making it the most awarded animation on the night.. and bringing its awards total to 11.
Stick Man beat Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas and Bruno & Boots: Go Jump In The Pool to win Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie for Kids. The 26-minute short film also took home Best Direction for Jeroen Jaspaert and South African co-director Daniel Snaddon; Best Music; and Best Design.
The Kidscreen wins are just the latest accolades for Stick Man, which has now won 11 international awards on three continents so far, including the Cristal for a TV Production at the world’s leading animation festival, Annecy.
Animated in Cape Town, Stick Man is an adaptation of the bestselling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo). (See trailer below.)
Martin Freeman (The Hobbit) voices Stick Man, with Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) as Santa and Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous) as the narrator.
Stick Man, which premiered on BBC One at Christmas 2015, is currently streaming on Showmax.
Triggerfish’s second BBC One Christmas collaboration with Magic Light Pictures, Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, will have its African premiere in March. The film coincides with the 100th anniversary of Dahl’s birth.
Revolting Rhymes will screen on 2 March 2017 at the Artscape – in collaboration with Cape Town International Animation Festival and Design Indaba – less than a week after its international festival premiere as the opening night film at New York International Children’s Film Festival.
It will also screen on 4 March 2017 at the Labia as part of the Cape Town International Animation Festival.
Established in 1996, Triggerfish Animation Studios is a Cape Town-based film and entertainment company.