Nordic animation gets sales push
by Annika Pham
Denmark’s Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms and Finland’s Moomin and Midsummer Madness are getting a sales push by their respective sales representatives Sola Media and NonStop Sales.
The German-based sales outfit Sola Media has announced a couple of new sales on Thomas Borch Nielsen’s 3D family film Sunshine Barry, which just screened at Toronto’s Sprocket Family Zone. Territories that have fallen for the spirited earthworm Barry include Brazil (Imagen), Baltikum (AMCE), CIS (Atelje), Czech and Slovak Republics (Dimas), the former Yugoslavia (MFC & Continentals), India (VMI), Poland (Kino Swiat), the Middle East (Shooting Star) and Turkey (Tiglon).
The film produced by Nina Crone (Crone Film) will have a major theatrical release in Denmark on October 10 through SF, with a 100-print run and marketing in line with Hollywood animation films. According to Sola Media, the film will be released on over 500 screens in Scandinavia, Russia and Poland.
Another popular Nordic animation film, Moomin and Midsummer Madness, based on Tove Jansson’s famous children’s book, has been picked up by NonStop Sales for world distribution (except Scandinavia, Poland and Japan). The film directed by Maria Lindberg was recently shown in competition at BUFF-the International Children & Young People’s Film Festival in Malmö, Sweden.
The film was produced by Film Companiet Alpha in Finland, in co-production with Poland and Austria. Nonstop will introduce the animation film at the upcoming MIPCOM in Cannes.
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