Stor Fisk's 'Fungi' goes Awol

BARCELONA -- Stor Fisk has licensed most worldwide sales privileges on toon series "Fungi" to Julie Fox's Paris-based Awol Animation. Mango Distribution, that is co-possessed through the Philippines' Top Draw Animation and Australia's Sticky Pictures, is selling Australia, Nz and Asia, outdoors Japan. Awol will handle Europe, U.S. and Latin America. A Barcelona-based pre-school and youngsters toon studio, Stor Fisk is creating "Fungi" with Catalan pubcaster TV3 and Top Draw. First program sales to Latin America and Germany have been in the whole shebang, stated Stor Fisk's Pablo Jordi. Directed by SF partners Jordi and Veronica Lassenius, the 26-seg "Fungi" narrates the mystery-fixing adventures of two kids -- Max, a music performer, and also the imaginative Frida. Both of them live at Fungihouse, an ebullient community of Undergrounders, where everyone uses fungi -- truffles -- for food, clothing, medicine as well as hats. Targeted at 4-8s, "Fungi" mixes fantasy with realism along with a Scandinavian style -- Lassenius is really a Finn Jordi acknowledged the influence of Scandinavian picture books -- having a cosmopolitan air. One family's accents vary from American to British to Scandinavian. "This mixture is original, but quite realistic. 'Fungi' is occur an illusion setting but offers realistic situations," Jordi told Variety. First full episodes is going to be ready by next Feb. A flagship toon production from Catalonia, "Fungi" comes off energetic condition financing within the North-east The spanish language region from both pubcaster TV3 and also the ICIC Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries, stated Jordi. TV3 plows about 3 million ($4.a million) each year into local animation production annually. It's co-creating 24 productions, stated TV3 animation co-producer Oriol Sala Patau. Five Catalan TV toon projects tested at September's Cartoon Forum: "Funghi," "The Mint Fairy," "Perfect Teeth," "Evening Breeds" and "Wilbur Willmore." "Fungi" has attracted lower a motivation from Spain's ICAA The spanish language Film Institute, plus development gold coin in the EU's Media Program. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com