We’re happy to Partner with Animation Studio, Cinégroupe

Woolf+Lapin is proud to partner with the long-time CinéGroupe animation studio.

CinéGroupe is a Canadian animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec. The company was founded in 1974. Its shows and films have been seen in over 125 countries.

Notable franchises from CinéGroupe include: What’s with Andy?, The Kids from Room 402, and Pig City (all aired on Fox Family, now known as Freeform); the animated Tripping the Rift (Sci Fi, now known as Syfy); and PBS’ Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat. With Sony Wonder, it has produced Mega Babies (also aired on Fox Family), as well as a direct-to-video feature, Lion of Oz (a prequel to both the L. Frank Baum work, and the 1939 movie). In the 2000s, the company produced the animation for a sequel to the 1981 cult classic Heavy Metal for Columbia TriStar Home Video titled Heavy Metal 2000,[2] premiered on Starz in the United States and on Teletoon in Canada from 2001 onwards. In 2004, it made Pinocchio 3000, a sci-fi retelling of the Italian tale.[3] Galidor, a live-action fantasy series for teenagers, has also been produced by the company. The company also cooperated with the toy maker MGA Entertainment in the creation of Bratz: Starrin’ and Stylin’, a 2D-animated direct-to-video film based on MGA’s Bratz line of fashion dolls.

Here’s a trailer to an old favorite, Tripping the Rift, one of CinéGroupe’s most successful shows.

RKSS’s We are Zombies On Cineverse’s Screambox For Fall

image by Julie Delisle

Cineverse has acquired the horror-comedy comic book adaptation We Are Zombies.

The company has said it plans to release the pic this fall across all platforms, including its genre streaming platform Screambox, with a premiere date to be announced soon.

The deal was negotiated out of this year’s Berlin Film Festival by Brandon Hill, Director of Acquisitions, on behalf of Cineverse and Gregoire Melin at Paris-based Kinology on behalf of the filmmakers.

See Zac Ntim’s Deadline article here.

Director Sophia Bierend Joins Woolf+Lapin

Sophia Bierend won for her writing the Degeto Impulse Award and was simultaneously working as an assistant director on the Netflix series Unorthodox and the film I’m Your Man. Both projects were realized by Maria Schrader, for whom she also works privately as an assistant. Inspired by this collaboration, Sophia applied for the talent lab at the War On Screen Film Festival in France. She won and got funding for her short film script The Taster. She wrote and directed the movie, which won the Student BAFTA in 2023 and is now successfully screening at various festivals all over the world. As a screenwriter she is part of various Writers Rooms, wrote among others several episodes for the youth series ECHT (KiKA, ZDF).

Here’s a quick synopsis for the Taster: In a near-future Romania, young Ozana (Silvana Mihai) is chosen to work as a food taster for the leader of forces occupying her country. The sole rule she must follow is that she must never look this man in the eye. Writer/director Sophia Bierend has made a captivating master class in slow-burn tension and world-building, phenomenally well-executed and performed according to Fantasia Film Festival’s Mitch Davis.