22/09/2010

Animation specialist Stefan Fjeldmark, a co-founder of Scandinavia’s most established animation studios A Film, has set up his own shop in Copenhagen, Eye Candy Film, to explore new ways of manipulating reality and telling stories outside the traditional animation world.

The father of Terkel in Trouble [+see also:
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Eye Candy Film is currently working on several film and television projects in Denmark and abroad. Fjeldmark will direct with Kalle Bjerkø the animation project Our House, a satire of the Danish political scene, and the teen movie The Ghost Detective starring Paprika Steen. Both projects are developed for Zentropa’s Peter Engel.

Fjeldmark has also teamed up with Canada’s New Real Films on the children’s fantasy film League of Monster Slayers, written and directed by Aaron Woodley. The “Mary Poppins meets Harry Potter” project in pre-production will be executive produced by David Cronenberg. Fjeldmark is looking for partners in Sweden to join the Canadian-Danish co-production.