THURISTAR was invited this year, together with La Cabane Productions, to take part to the MIFA conferences program, on the topic: Ostriches, Skeletons, Robots and Mushrooms… How to Animate the Inhuman?
Mush-Mush was in good company alongside Coco from Pixar presented by Alonso Martinez, the work of Alexander Williams Head of Escape Studio, and the hyper-realistic work of Nicolas Deveaux at Cube Productions.
“My Knight and Me” is selected for the Best children’s animated series award (international category) by the Trickfilm / ITFS festival in Germany!
The winners will be announced at the award ceremony taking place in Stuttgart on April 27th.
The episode entitled “Cat’s in the bag”, written and directed by Joeri Christiaen, will be shown at the Festival in the Tricks for kids series programme 2 on Sunday, April 29th at 5 PM in Metropol 1.
(Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Films : https://www.itfs.de/en/)
Animation Production Day has invited THURISTAR for its “Enable!” conference program, taking place in Stuttgart on Thursday April 26th from 2PM.
Producer Perrine Gauthier and creator/director Joeri Christiaen will speak about a very epic journey, from the creation of the short film “850 meters” to the production of the series “My Knight and Me”.
During the event’s Financing Market taking place on Friday April 27th, THURISTAR will also present its latest series “Mush-Mush and the Mushables” which is part of this year’s selection of projects.
UK distributor CAKE has sold “My Knight and Me“ to several new broadcasters. After the global premiere on Cartoon Network and Family Channel in Canada last year, the series is making way for Hulu (US), UYoung (China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Taiwan), YLE (Finland), SVT (Sweden), Televisio Catalunya (Spain), E-Vision (Middle East) and Showmax (Africa).
http://kidscreen.com/2018/03/19/my-knight-and-me-rides-with-new-global-sales/
“My Knight and Me” (“Mon Chevalier et Moi”), the series created and directed by Joeri Christiaen and coproduced by Thuristar and TeamTO, has been nominated for the European Animation Awards, in two different categories:
Best Writing and Best Soundtrack in a TV/Broadcast Production.
THURISTAR is honored to be a part of the first edition of this exciting new event, which will take place on December 8th in Lille, France.
Big congrats to the whole writing team and to Frederik Segers and Jan Duthoy who composed the soundtrack, and Temple of Tune who took care of the sound design and mix.
Animation Magazine and Cartoon Brew articles
The series “My Knight and Me” (“Ritter hoch 3” in German) has just won an EMIL award, one of the four big German Kids TV awards !
The jury liked the comedy, the lack of gender stereotypes and the expressive animation of the characters, and called the series “fast-paced, clever entertainment”.
Joeri Christiaen, founder of Thuristar and creator-director of the series “My Knight and Me”, was awarded “Director of the year” (in the animation category) by the Directors Union in Belgium.
A big thank you to the Unie Van Regisseurs and Joeri’s peers!
http://www.vaf.be/nieuws/sectorprijzen-scenaristengilde-en-unie-van-regisseurs-bekend
The series “My Knight and Me” is selected for Cartoons on the Bay, in the International Panorama category.
The festival will take place April 6th-8th in Italy.
http://www.cartoonsbay.rai.it/en/
The series “My Knight and Me” wins the “Golden Plaque” prize at the Chicago Film Festival, which took place in March 2017.
The new series of Joeri Christiaen (creator and director of “My Knight and Me”), entitled “Roger Flambé : (animated) actor” (52×11′) is in development with Disney Channel EMEA.
The show, coproduced by Thuristar in Belgium and La Cabane in France, follows the bigger-than-life journey of Roger Flambé, an animated actor who moves Cartoon City to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a cartoon actor.
