Twelve-time Grammy-winning Panamanian musician, actor and human rights activist Ruben Blades has provided an original song for the Spanish-Panamanian animated climate change movie “Black Butterflies” from director David Baute. The film will world premiere in the Contrechamp competition at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival.
Animated in 2D, and painstakingly researched by Baute, “Black Butterflies” is a timely feature about the real-world consequences of global warming as experienced by communities in the areas most impacted by the man-made phenomenon.
The film tells three separate but related stories about Lobuin, Vanesa and Soma, three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. The women and their families are condemned to lose everything because of the effects of climate change and are forced to emigrate to survive.
Explaining why the film was important to him, Blades said, “Climate change as a reason for human immigration...
Animated in 2D, and painstakingly researched by Baute, “Black Butterflies” is a timely feature about the real-world consequences of global warming as experienced by communities in the areas most impacted by the man-made phenomenon.
The film tells three separate but related stories about Lobuin, Vanesa and Soma, three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. The women and their families are condemned to lose everything because of the effects of climate change and are forced to emigrate to survive.
Explaining why the film was important to him, Blades said, “Climate change as a reason for human immigration...
- 6/10/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Ikiru Films, Tinglado Film (“Ona”) and Anangu Grup (“Mummies”) are readying David Baute’s “Black Butterflies” (“Mariposas Negras”), an animated climate exodus film three years in the making that illustrates the journey of three women fleeing uninhabitable terrain towards new lives that prove far from welcoming. The trials and tribulations of each are relayed via 2D renderings.
“I’m thrilled to be producing David Baute’s “Black Butterflies” with Tinglado Film, Anangu Grup and Tunche Films. It’s a global tale necessary to relay, with the focus placed on people whose tragedies are largely unknown to our society,” asserted Ikiru Films founder, Edmon Roch.
Sharing an exclusive first look image with Variety, he adds, “The World Bank projects that climate change will drive 143 million people in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia alone to leave their homes by 2050. Most of them come from poor regions that have contributed little to global warming.
“I’m thrilled to be producing David Baute’s “Black Butterflies” with Tinglado Film, Anangu Grup and Tunche Films. It’s a global tale necessary to relay, with the focus placed on people whose tragedies are largely unknown to our society,” asserted Ikiru Films founder, Edmon Roch.
Sharing an exclusive first look image with Variety, he adds, “The World Bank projects that climate change will drive 143 million people in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia alone to leave their homes by 2050. Most of them come from poor regions that have contributed little to global warming.
- 6/13/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has inked multiple new sales deals for César Zelada’s sophomore feature “Kayara,” an animated teen-empowerment fable produced by Lima-based Tunche Films in co-production with India’s Toonz Media Group via its Canary Islands-based Fortoon Island.
In the latest wave of sales, Mis. Label Aps has acquired “Kayara” for Scandinavia, Films4You for Portugal, Bir for Turkey, Bohemia for Czech and Slovak Republics, Blitz for Ex-Yugoslavia, Five Star for Israel, Muse for Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, Falcon for Indonesia, and Mongol Films Distribution for Mongolia.
“With the continued interest in authentic, indigenous animated stories, we are confident ‘Kayara’ will, like our previous animated hit ‘Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon,’ be licensed to blue-chip independent distributors in every territory around the world for release in 2024,” Cmg President Edward Noeltner told Variety.
The flurry of deals adds to territories already closed led by an eye-turning deal with France to Le Pacte.
In the latest wave of sales, Mis. Label Aps has acquired “Kayara” for Scandinavia, Films4You for Portugal, Bir for Turkey, Bohemia for Czech and Slovak Republics, Blitz for Ex-Yugoslavia, Five Star for Israel, Muse for Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, Falcon for Indonesia, and Mongol Films Distribution for Mongolia.
“With the continued interest in authentic, indigenous animated stories, we are confident ‘Kayara’ will, like our previous animated hit ‘Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon,’ be licensed to blue-chip independent distributors in every territory around the world for release in 2024,” Cmg President Edward Noeltner told Variety.
The flurry of deals adds to territories already closed led by an eye-turning deal with France to Le Pacte.
- 6/9/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Los Angeles and Paris-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has closed major sales to Peruvian-Dutch animated feature “Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon” ahead of its world premiere at this week’s 60th Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Signature Entertainment has snapped up rights to the toon for the U.K. and Ireland while Rialto Distribution has picked up rights for Australia & New Zealand. Signature is releasing the film this year along with the 80-plus other territories which pre-bought the film from Cmg.
“Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon” has been a box office phenomenon worldwide, opening at No. 2 in all of Central America, No. 3 in the Ukraine and Norway and No. 4 in German-speaking Switzerland as well as Iceland and Vietnam.
The toon feature follows the epic journey of Ainbo, a thirteen-year-old indigenous girl and her wise and quirky spirit guides, Dillo, an armadillo, and Vaca, an oversized tapir. Together, they set out...
Signature Entertainment has snapped up rights to the toon for the U.K. and Ireland while Rialto Distribution has picked up rights for Australia & New Zealand. Signature is releasing the film this year along with the 80-plus other territories which pre-bought the film from Cmg.
“Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon” has been a box office phenomenon worldwide, opening at No. 2 in all of Central America, No. 3 in the Ukraine and Norway and No. 4 in German-speaking Switzerland as well as Iceland and Vietnam.
The toon feature follows the epic journey of Ainbo, a thirteen-year-old indigenous girl and her wise and quirky spirit guides, Dillo, an armadillo, and Vaca, an oversized tapir. Together, they set out...
- 6/15/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Fernanda Frick’s “Irl Squad,” the Cinema Management Group-sold “Kayara” and Brazil’s “Bring on the Revolution!” are three of the 16 film and TV animation projects at Animation!, one of the industry highlights at the upcoming Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film market.
Running Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, and available on Ventana Sur online, Animation!’s pitches, organized with the Annecy Animation Festival’s MIFA market, play off a building animation scene in Latin America. Animation!’s pitches received 241 submissions this year, an all-time record.
The projects look set as ever to frame some of the strongest movie market titles at Ventana Sur: A exceptional big animated feature production from Latin America, backed by a reputable sales agent, can now spark seven-figure dollar pre-sales.
An auteur of highly crafted character-driven animation tales, who was cherry-picked by Netflix for development of her last project, “Raise the Bar,” about a stereotype-smashing female weightlifter,...
Running Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, and available on Ventana Sur online, Animation!’s pitches, organized with the Annecy Animation Festival’s MIFA market, play off a building animation scene in Latin America. Animation!’s pitches received 241 submissions this year, an all-time record.
The projects look set as ever to frame some of the strongest movie market titles at Ventana Sur: A exceptional big animated feature production from Latin America, backed by a reputable sales agent, can now spark seven-figure dollar pre-sales.
An auteur of highly crafted character-driven animation tales, who was cherry-picked by Netflix for development of her last project, “Raise the Bar,” about a stereotype-smashing female weightlifter,...
- 10/28/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Previous collaboration Ainbo – Spirit Of The Amazon ready for delivery in September 2020.
As La-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) and Peruvian animation aces Tunche Films prepare for a September 2020 delivery on Ainbo – Spirit Of The Amazon, the partners have announced their latest collaboration, Kayara.
Tunche Films’ Cesar Zelada, who produced Ainbo, will direct the feature and pre-production is under way with a start of animation planned for mid-2020.
Cmg president Edward Noeltner is showing first images at Afm. Like Ainbo, Kayara is a female-led story and follows a young Incan woman who dreams of breaking into the male-only group of Chasqui Inca messengers.
As La-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) and Peruvian animation aces Tunche Films prepare for a September 2020 delivery on Ainbo – Spirit Of The Amazon, the partners have announced their latest collaboration, Kayara.
Tunche Films’ Cesar Zelada, who produced Ainbo, will direct the feature and pre-production is under way with a start of animation planned for mid-2020.
Cmg president Edward Noeltner is showing first images at Afm. Like Ainbo, Kayara is a female-led story and follows a young Incan woman who dreams of breaking into the male-only group of Chasqui Inca messengers.
- 11/9/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Edward Noeltner’s sales company announces slew of Berlin deals led by Ainbo, New Life; horror-thriller Havenhurst sells to Soda Pictures in UK.
Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) announced on Monday it has licensed Tunche Films’ 3D CGI animated Ainbo – Spirit Of The Amazon (pictured) in 12 territories led by a deal with Turbo Films in China.
Company president Noeltner and his team also closed deals in the Baltics (Best Film), former Yugoslavia (Blitz Film & Video Distribution), Israel (Film House), Middle East (Front Row), Poland (Kino Swiat), Portugal (Cinemundo), South Korea (First Run), and Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar (Blue Lantern).
Brothers Sergio Zelada, Cesar Zelada and writer-director Jose Zelada founded Peru-based Tunche Films in 2003 and produced Ainbo and Noeltner acquired sales rights following a trip to Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires last December.
Argentum Entertainment’s romantic drama New Life has gone to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Scandinavia (Bld Media), China (Jetsen), Middle East (Front Row), Portugal...
Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) announced on Monday it has licensed Tunche Films’ 3D CGI animated Ainbo – Spirit Of The Amazon (pictured) in 12 territories led by a deal with Turbo Films in China.
Company president Noeltner and his team also closed deals in the Baltics (Best Film), former Yugoslavia (Blitz Film & Video Distribution), Israel (Film House), Middle East (Front Row), Poland (Kino Swiat), Portugal (Cinemundo), South Korea (First Run), and Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar (Blue Lantern).
Brothers Sergio Zelada, Cesar Zelada and writer-director Jose Zelada founded Peru-based Tunche Films in 2003 and produced Ainbo and Noeltner acquired sales rights following a trip to Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires last December.
Argentum Entertainment’s romantic drama New Life has gone to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Scandinavia (Bld Media), China (Jetsen), Middle East (Front Row), Portugal...
- 3/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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