A model new thriller sequence The Retrievers by Northern Eire based mostly impartial studio Sixteen South emerged because the winner of MIPJunior Pitch 2025. It’s about a rare woman and her journey together with her particular associates.
The studio’s improvement producer Stephen Coulter who pitched the enjoyable challenge on behalf of Sixteen South fell in need of phrases submit his victory. Nonetheless, he has sturdy hopes for the present’s lead characters Molly and her canine Otis.
The present’s temporary: The sequence is about a rare woman and her loyal canine as they sort out probably the most unusual crimes within the metropolis of Paris with an uncommon bunch of stray animals. On her eleventh birthday, she found she had the flexibility to know and speak to animals, and that features her police canine, Otis. This blew her thoughts as a result of it will be actually helpful for Otis. There have been so many crimes within the metropolis of Paris which were going unsolved and now the canine thinks, lastly, he can talk with a human being and this could be the important thing to unlocking a few of them.
They’re wanting ahead to creating The Retrievers as a 26-episode 11-minute CGI sequence. Together with their pitch bible, they’ve a 22-minute pilot script prepared about Leonardo da Vinci’s well-known portray MonaLisa being stolen. They’re on the lookout for fascinating broadcasters.
The event slate of Sixteen South consists of reveals that can be delivered in 2D, 3D, hybrid animation, dwell motion and fur. They’re a creatively pushed impartial studio focussed on creating, producing and distributing modern, entertaining and significant content material for youngsters and households all through the world. The studio has gained over 50 worldwide awards for his or her work together with two Emmy nominations, the BAFTA Unbiased Youngsters’s Manufacturing Firm of the Yr, the Prix Jeunesse, three IFTAs and a number of different awards, each for his or her work and in addition for his or her enterprise achievements.
The jury panel for the MIPJunior Pitch included M6 / Gulli youngsters content material acquisitions & programming for worldwide youngsters channels director Maud Branly; Disney Branded Tv content material acquisitions and partnerships government director Rick Clodfelter; Tencent Video producer Qing Fan and BBC kids’s commissioning (seven plus) senior head Sarah Muller. It was moderated by Simply B inventive facilitator Justine Bannister.
The opposite finalists who pitched their tasks had been Buddha Studio animation supervisor Simin He; Birdo government producer Luciana Eguti; Digitoonz Leisure president Maria Bonaria Fois and Armada studio sound designer Emmanuel Koukambakana Kouka.
