Xilam Animation Assembles European Broadcasters for Piggy Builders
April 29 2024 - 1:30AM
Business Wire
France Télévisions, BBC, ZDF Board New CGI
Preschool Series
Regulatory News:
Academy Award®-nominated French animation studio Xilam
Animation (Paris:XIL) has secured a wave of European public
broadcast partners for its upcoming CG preschool proprietary series
“Piggy Builders”, with France Télévisions (France), BBC (UK) and
ZDF (Germany) on board as commissioning broadcasters. The 52 x 11’
series was first pitched by Xilam Animation at Cartoon Forum in
2021 and is now set to be delivered in Q3 2025 with Romain
Villemaine as the director (Ricky Zoom, Maya the Bee, Valiant). The
first episodes will be released at the upcoming MIPCOM (October
2024).
“Piggy Builders” is created by Marie Manand, Julien Hazebroucq
and Emmanuelle Leleu and follows Cornelia, Cesar and Charlie, a
trio of charismatic and curly-tailed piggy siblings who live in
Fine Forest. Whilst they are very different to one another in
nature, they have many things in common: they all love building,
they all love solving problems, they all love their community and,
most importantly, they all love each other. There’s one more thing
they have in common: they all have a lot to learn about working
together. When these three little piggies don’t function as a team,
the projects they’re working on go wrong in very silly and funny
ways. But when they manage to work as a team, the impossible
becomes possible!
As the piggies embark on their building projects, they also must
face a lazy and selfish wolf, Vern, who thinks he’s bigger and
badder than he really is. Vern interferes with piggies’ projects
and rubs his paws in glee at the prospect that his meddling will
mess things up for them.
Marc du Pontavice, Chairman and CEO at Xilam Animation
said: “As we continue expanding our offering of CG content, “Piggy
Builders” makes the perfect addition to our slate of proprietary
content as it brings so many endearing characters and humorous
stories of teamwork, while also highlighting the importance of
family. “Piggy Builders” received a fantastic response at Cartoon
Forum, and we’re now honoured to have such strong national
broadcast partners in France Télévisions, BBC and ZDF joining us on
this adventure. We look forward to collaborating with each of these
broadcasters and to introducing our wonderful little piggies to
audiences, who we’re sure will charm and entertain preschoolers and
families around the world.”
About Xilam
A major player in animation, Xilam is an integrated studio
founded in 1999 that creates, produces and distributes original
programmes in more than 190 countries for both children and adult
audiences. Xilam content is broadcast on television, and is also
available on SVoD platforms including Netflix, Disney+, Amazon and
Universal+ and AVoD streaming platforms including YouTube and
Facebook.
With its creativity and capacity for innovation recognised
worldwide, its unique expertise in CGI, as well as editorial and
commercial expertise at the cutting edge of its industry, Xilam is
positioned as a key player of the market. Each year, Xilam builds
real successes and capitalises on its powerful historical brands
including Oggy and the Cockroaches, Zig & Sharko and Chicky, as
well as new properties such as Oggy Oggy for a preschool audience,
Mr Magoo and Karate Sheep, and Academy Award® nominated adult
feature film I Lost My Body. Xilam’s expanding and strong catalogue
now consists of over 2,800 episodes and three feature films.
Xilam employs more than 500 individuals, including 400 artists,
across its studios in Paris, Angoulême in France and Ho Chi Minh in
Vietnam. Xilam was ranked France's leading animation studio for the
2018-2022 period in a report by the French national centre for
cinema and animation (CNC).
Xilam is listed on Euronext Paris Compartment C - PEA - SRD long
Eligibility. ISIN: FR0004034072, Symbol: XIL
For more information, visit www.xilam.com
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Marc du Pontavice – Chairman and CEO Cécile Haimet - CFO Phone:
+33 1 40 18 72 00
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7726 901 129
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Relations) – Phone +33 1 53 70 74 81 Laurent Poinsot (Investor
Relations) – Phone +33 1 53 70 74 77
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