“Nuts & Robbers” and “The Beet Party: Beet Gymnastics” have been selected to be screened at the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI), July 26th-28th at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, ON. 

For more information please contact:

Nahleena Tye
Marketing Manager
n.tye@toonboxent.com

And the Award of Excellence goes to….

Awards of Excellence

 Ace Salisbury, Ctrl Shift, short film
Beautiful Movements Productions (United Kingdom), Tea for Two, entertainment/drama/dance/variety
Blue Lobsters Media, LLC, Lost Boy Home, short documentary
Chasing Frames Productions (India), Gawah, short documentary
Grayscale Productions (United Kingdom), Godless Nights, short film
Hugo Cierzniak (France), Dip N’ Dance, animation
Imaginarium EG, Guarding Charlie, short film
Inspirit Creative, Harvesting the High Plains, short documentary
Jacob Vincent – Piedmont College, Rendezvous, action/adventure
Jimmy Makes Movies, Inc., Libman/So You Think You Can Dance Finale, music video
Julie Kreuzer – University of Television and Film Munich (Germany), Bumpy Night, gay/lesbian/transsexual
Nick Dixon, Mr. Bellpond, short film
Noblesfilms (Mexico), Flight of the Hummingbird, Latin American/Latino/Hispanic
Nostra Casa Films (Canada), Zoey’s Hill, children/family programming
Ogilvy Entertainment, DuPont Mini Documentaries – Stories of Inclusive Innovation, documentary series
Peacock Productions (Canada), Milk Bath, women filmmakers
Questus, The Naked Brand, short documentary
Radio Television Hong Kong (China), Love • Zero AIDS, special purpose films
Studio Pat (Martinique), Traditional Dress, From Slavery to the Gran’Rore, short documentary
The Wild Blue Yonder, Gigantomachia, short film
ToonBox Entertainment (Canada), The Beet Party, children/family programming
Triple Horse Studios, A Cry for Justice, movie trailer
Yevgeniy Vaskevich, Daydream of the Sleepwalker, experimental

 To find out more about the Best Shorts Competition click here: http://www.bestshorts.net/index.html

For more information please contact:
Nahleena Tye
Marketing Manager
n.tye@toonboxent.com

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Congratulations!

For more information please contact:

Nahleena Tye
Marketing Manager
n.tye@toonboxent.com

BREAKING: Open Road Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Nut Job, a 3D animated family film. The distributor has set a January 17, 2014 opening date. The film features the voices of Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon and Jeff Dunham. It’s a comedy focusing on a squirrel and his rat friend as they plan a nut store heist.

The film is directed by Peter Lepeniotis and scripted by Lorne Cameron and Lepeniotis, and based on the latter’s 2005 short film Surly Squirrel. It’s produced by Graham Moloy and WK Jung and the exec producers are Mike Karz and Bill Bindley of Gulfstream Pictures, Jay Ahn, Daniel Woo, Hong Kim and Tom Yoon, in a co-production between ToonBox Entertainment, Redrover Co, Ltd. and Gulfstream Pictures. The distribution deal was made between Open Road CEO Tom Ortenberg and Redrover president Hoe-jin Ha. Ortenberg called it “a smart, fresh and funny movie that family members of all ages will certainly enjoy.”

Here’s a look at Lepeniotis’ original short Surly Squirrel that got this whole thing started:

To read the article click here:  http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/open-road-acquires-3d-animated-feature-the-nut-job-sets-january-17-release/

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For more information please contact:

Nahleena Tye
Marketing Manager
n.tye@toonboxent.com

In the episode Baby Carrot, The Off puts on his “Daddy Hat” to try and stop the little baby carrot from crying.

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In the episode Sink-opation, the Beets take some time off of their busy schedule to relax and enjoy some time in the pool (the sink). Unfortunately, Aneek Neek isn’t quite old enough to swim with the big-beets yet.

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In this episode, Clash of the Beets, Boom-Cha has all the power of Zeus after a Greek food platter is recombined into a towering throne!

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Synopsis of The Beet Party:

Five of the coolest Beets around are chilling in the fridge when something new arrives on their shelf. Curiosity piqued, the Beets explore, experiment, and play in original ways that lead to hilarious results. Then it’s time to celebrate with some serious beat-boxing and a party!

If you would like more information about The Beet Party please contact:

Nahleena Tye
Marketing Manager
n.tye@toonboxent.com

To read the Press Release: http://ymamj.org/communique/en/13-03-27-en.pdf
To learn more about the YMA’s: http://ymamj.org/index_en.html

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For more information regarding ToonBox Entertainment and The Beet Party please contact:
Nahleena Tye
Marketing Manager
n.tye@toonboxent.com

Press Release:

Toronto, ON: Redrover Co. Ltd and ToonBox Entertainment Ltd. have recently inked a deal with Disney Junior Latin America for the interstitial series The Beet Party. The 104 x 2’ series follows five of the hippest Beets as they celebrate with eccentric beat boxing sounds when they discover a new item in their fridge home.

“We are delighted to have Disney Junior bring The Beet Party to its Latin American viewers,” says series creator Thom Chapman, “it is a fun little series that will bring the amusement and skill of beat boxing to a young new audience.”

The show is currently airing on BBC Kids Canada, SVT, KBS, and was rated the number one show on YOOPA during its initial release late last year.

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For further information, please contact:

Nahleena Tye                                                                      Suwon Ahn
ToonBox Entertainment                                                Redrover Co., Ltd
n.tye@toonboxent.com                                                ahnsuwon@redrover.co.kr
416-362-8783                                                                  +82 70 7605 3233

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Our press release has been featured in the following online magazines:

http://www.awn.com/news/places/beet-party-lands-disney-junior-latin-america

http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/category/1111/article

http://ani.dev.pcomms.ca/the-beet-party-lands-on-disney-junior-latin-america/

Established Toronto 3D animation studio is looking for kids in Grades 4 -8 to be part of a focus group to screen it’s new animated blockbuster feature in it’s earliest stages.

What’s involved?
Getting a tour of a 3D animation studio in downtown Toronto, watching a movie, eating popcorn, and answering a few simple questions about the film. Plus, when the movie comes out you get to tell your friends you were the very first to see it!

Type of movie:
An action adventure set in outer space. In this animated film, a 13 year old boy, with the help of his friends, battles against the bad guy who’s taken over his planet. His journey is to restore peace to the Kingdom and be reunited with his family.

How tough are the questions? They’re easy! Kinda like this:
Who was your favourite character in the film?
What did you like about them?
Who didn’t you like?

If you’re interested in being part of this focus group, please email us at: toonboxent@toonboxent.com
stating your age and your parent’s contact information. We’ll contact them and make sure we have their permission and to schedule a time with them.

As shown on Craigslist: http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/eve/3657734932.html

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The World’s Premier Conference for 3D Innovation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SD&A 3D Theater Best of Show 3D Content Winners Announced

Burlingame, California (USA) – March 1, 2013 – Experts in stereoscopic cinema at the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference – the world’s premier conference for 3D innovation – announced the winners of the annual 3D Theater session held February 4, 2013. The SD&A conference is held as part of the annual Electronic Imaging Symposium coordinated by the professional societies IS&T and SPIE.

The large audience at the two-hour SD&A 3D Theater session were treated to a varied selection of 42 different 3D content segments highlighting a wide range of styles from 3D content producers from around the world.

This year’s judges of the SD&A 3D Theater session were: Eric Kurland, stereographer on the Oscar nominated “Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare” from 3-DIY and president of the Los Angeles 3-D Club; Jason Goodman, stereographer on “The Amazing Spider-Man” from 21st Century 3D; and Lenny Lipton, founder of StereoGraphics Corp. and former CTO of RealD. The judges were impressed with the high quality and inventiveness of the content, and had a challenging task to choose the winning entries from among a strong field. Two Best of Show prizes were awarded at the SD&A 3D Theater session:

The Best of Show award for 3D live action went to “Ninety Three Million Miles” from Site-Eye Time-Lapse Films (directors: Brian McClave and Gavin Peacock) (UK).

The Best of Show award for 3D CGI went to “Nuts & Robbers” from ToonBox Entertainment Ltd. (Canada) and Redrover Co., Ltd. (South Korea).

The full list of 3D content segments screened during the SD&A 3D Theater session was as follows:

Competition Category

• Ninety Three Million Miles – Site-Eye Time-Lapse Films (directors: Brian McClave and Gavin Peacock) (UK)

• Nuts & Robbers – ToonBox Entertainment Ltd. (Canada) and Redrover Co., Ltd. (South Korea)

• 3D Clouds Throughout the Day – Masuji Suto (Japan)

• The Art Of Flight 3D – Red Bull Media House in association with Brain Farm Digital Cinema (USA)

• Cosmic Encounters – Jürgen Hansen & Simone Stripp (France)

• Bolts & Blip: Battle of the Lunar League – Movie Trailer – ToonBox Entertainment Ltd. and Redrover Co., Ltd. (Canada)

• The Best of 3DGuy – Al Caudullo (USA)

• Fugaku Hyakkei – 3D Converted Ukiyo-e Japanese Woodblock Prints – Waseda University, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd (Japan)

• Get Lost in 3D – Andrew Woods (Australia)

• Anvil – Per Nyman (Sweden) • Prometheus Cave – Zaza Lomidze (Georgia)

• Moonglow – The Lives – Chang Hae-Rang (South Korea)

• Stereoscopic Memories from Catalonia – Lluís Dubreuil (Spain)

• Transmutation – Volker Kuchelmeister
(Australia)

• Balloon in the City – Cheers Elephant (band), Ryan Suits (director) (USA)

• The Charlatan – Ray Zone (USA)

• Canals of Amsterdam – Masuji Suto (Japan)

• China Cup International Regatta 2012 – Film Magic Limited (Hong Kong)

• Sawdust Teaser – Wayne Schoenfeld and Anthony Coogan (USA)

• Dream Defenders – Tiny Island Productions Pte Ltd (Singapore)

• The Collection – Andrew Murchie (UK)

• The Chopin Shorts Collection: 3D; Papa’s Boy – BreakThru Films (producer: Hugh Welchman) (Poland)

• The Chopin Shorts Collection: 3D; Spirits of the Piano – BreakThru Films (producer: Hugh Welchman) (Poland)

• Make Every Second Count: Jim Dellevalle’s Chapter – Nat Bartholomew (USA)

• The End of the Dark Ages of the Universe – Ralf Kaehler (SLAC), Marcelo Alvarez (CITA) & Tom Abel (SLAC) (USA)

• Eastern State Penitentiary – Terry Wilson (USA)

• Soulmates 3D – The S3D Centre (Canada)

• Storm Surfers 3D – 6ixty Foot Films (Australia)

• Digital Darkroom: The Art of 3D – Steven Kochones (USA)

• Skyscrapers – OK Go (USA) Demonstration Category

• Finding Nemo 3D – Pixar Animation Studios (USA)

• Flying Swords of Dragon Gate – Bona Entertainment Company Limited (China)

• A Day in the Life of an Audi Driver – Audi Le Mans – Chris Curtis for Passion Pictures (UK)

• Karatchi Scramble – Chris Casady (USA)

• Hooked – Parus Studio in collaboration with Tritone Studio (Latvia)

• James Stewart 3D – GoPro Media Team (USA)

• London 2012 Olympic Games – Olympic Broadcasting Service (UK)

• Titans of the Ice Age – Giant Screen Films (USA)

• Mapping Change in Sierra Nevada Forests – Steven McQuinn (USA)

• Intel 3D-TRI-GATE Trailer – KUK Filmproduction Munich (Germany)

• The Last Reef – Giant Screen Films (USA)

• La Luna – Pixar Animation Studios (USA)

Two other prizes were awarded at the 2013 SD&A conference:

The prize for the best use of 3D during the technical presentations was awarded to Jim Defillipis for his keynote presentation “Coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games in 3D” which included a behind-the-scenes documentary which showed the 3D cameras used at the 2012 Olympics in 3D action.

The prize of the best demonstration at the conference was awarded to John Toeppen and Jason Buchheim for their “Giga-pixel Immersive Stereoscopic Panoramas”. Congratulations to all our award winners.

About SD&A

The annual Stereoscopic Displays & Applications (SD&A) conference is the world’s premier conference for 3D innovation. It is the largest and longest running technical conference dedicated to the discussion of technical stereoscopic imaging topics. The next conference runs February 3-5, 2014 in downtown San Francisco.

The SD&A conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium held in San Francisco, California. The conference program includes a range of exciting and useful special sessions, as well as research-based oral and poster presentations dedicated to stereoscopic imaging topics. Special sessions include the 3D Theatre, showing the latest stereoscopic footage; and live demonstrations of stereoscopic displays and applications.

Further information about the SD&A conference is available here: http://www.stereoscopic.org

The SD&A conference was gratefully supported by its 2013 Gold Sponsors: IMAX Corporation, DepthQ by Lightspeed Design, and Volfoni; Silver Sponsors: ELDIM, and Google Chrome; Projection Sponsors: Christie, Fakespace Labs, and Tekamaki; and Media Sponsors: Veritas et Visus, 3D Roundabout, and Display Central.

Contact Gregg Favalora – SD&A Co-chair
favalora@gmail.com
(Massachusetts, USA)

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For more information about ToonBox please contact:
Nahleena Tye
Marketing Manager
n.tye@toonboxent.com

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