Florida animation home Sanu Wara Studios has debuted the trailer for upcoming animated quick Yohance: The Kalfani Job. Billed as a first-of-its-kind “African Area Opera,” the movie is written, directed and animated by Paul Louise-Julie and tailored from his 2015 indie graphic novel of the identical identify.
The quick, on account of premiere on YouTube in Winter 2023/24, will function an introduction to the story world forward of a deliberate function movie trilogy.
The story of Yohance: The Kalfani Job is a swashbuckling journey that takes place totally on the aquatic planet of Kalfani, following an elite operative who has been dispatched throughout the galaxy to get well a sacred artifact. Nonetheless, he’s quickly confronted with issues that shake his religion in all the pieces he believes in.
This extraterrestrial epic imagines a galaxy anchored completely in Afrofuturist aesthetics, conceived and designed by Louise-Julie after dwelling in West Africa and researching pre-colonial African cultures for practically a decade. Manufacturing on the quick was funded by a profitable Indiegogo marketing campaign which secured $13,000 in 2018 (earlier than the pandemic) and an extra $150,000 was dedicated in 2021.
Per the trailer launch announcement, Louise-Julie believes that Yohance will fulfill an unmet want for Afrofantasy content material “that includes the African diaspora in worlds which can be absolutely their very own,” the place Black characters may be the protagonists of their very own tales. He notes that “making a fantasy or sci-fi story with an all-Black solid is now not ample. The world that these characters exist in must additionally be told by Black tradition.”
Written, directed and animated by Louise-Julie, Yohance: The Kalfani Job is produced by Vlad Piverger and Candace Kidd with Chris Johnson government producing. The quick options an unique rating by Joel Santos.
Viewers can try this imaginative and prescient for themselves, dropped at life with photorealistic 3D CGI, within the official trailer under. Study extra concerning the challenge and discover the Yohance comics at sanuwara.com.
