Mediawan Youngsters & Household, a European unbiased multi-genre manufacturing studio and international distributor of youngsters’s and household content material, has introduced its first worldwide acquisition for the Youngsters & Household division with the acquisition of a majority stake in UK-based manufacturing firm Wildseed Studios. The brand new partnership will enable the division to counterpoint its catalogue with new animation and live-action content material and prolong its community of worldwide expertise. It’s going to additionally present a powerful and complementary addition to its present portfolio of studios.
Multi-award profitable Wildseed Studios has produced worldwide hits such because the household live-action sequence The Final Bus (Netflix), multi-award-winning characteristic movie Hungerford, kids’s animation sequence Dodo (Sky Youngsters), children’ 8-11 animated comedy Counterfeit Cat (Disney Channel) and soon-to-be-screened Particular Ama’s Story (Sky Youngsters).
Inventive director Jesse Cleverly, former Head of co-productions and acquisitions at BBC Youngsters’s, and managing director Miles Bullough, former Head of broadcast at Aardman Animations, based Wildseed Studios in 2013.
“I’m delighted to welcome Jesse, Miles and their crew to Mediawan Youngsters & Household,” stated Julien Borde, Mediawan Youngsters & Household President. “Wildseed is a famend and well-established UK producer with a powerful community of worldwide expertise and companions. They’ve a novel tackle innovation and an actual know-how on expertise incubation. We’re thrilled to start out working with them to permit new expertise to deliver new tales and universes to children, younger adults and households. Wildseed will pursue the event of its personal slate of content material but in addition accomplice with our studios in Europe to deliver new co-productions to the market.”
Cleverly added, “We’re excited to be a part of the Mediawan household and massively admire their fashionable, agile strategy to creativity and partnership. With Mediawan’s assist, we stay up for discovering extra award-winning creators and their unique properties, producing extra world-class content material for audiences beneath 30 and rising Wildseed inside the Mediawan group. One of many points of interest of Mediawan for us was the flexibility to proceed to drive our personal various slate of exhibits, in addition to working with different studios within the group to develop co-productions with a very worldwide focus.”
“We’re thrilled with this new partnership,” stated Elisabeth d’Arvieu, Mediawan Footage Managing Director. “After Italy and the event of an Animation department inside our studio Palomar, it’s a new institution in a territory the place animation is vital, matching completely with our European studio technique we’re creating on all our genres.”
Supply: Mediawan Youngsters & Household
Whitney is a contract author specializing in VFX-driven fantasy movie & TV in addition to preschool animation.
