DeAPlaneta Entertainment has signed a deal with Hungary’s KEDD Animation Studio to acquire the innovative animated series Mitch-Match. Under this deal, DeAPlaneta Ent. will manage media rights for the show worldwide, excluding Hungary.
KEDD Animation Studio has produced unique and award-winning series including Berry and Dolly, KUFLIS and Mitch-Match. It was founded by by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Géza M. Toth in 2002; since then, as leader, director and producer of the studio, he has been working on new short films, TV-commercials, music videos and experimental works as well as illustrating children’s books. His short film Maestro was nominated at the 2007 Oscars for Best Animated Short Film.
Mitch-Match (52 x 3’) is an imaginative animated series for young adults and families directed, scripted and designed by Tóth and produced by KEDD. This non-dialog sketch-comedy series follows a single, playful matchstick on whimsical adventures. Each episode starts the same way: the main character, the blue headed matchstick, pops out of the box. At the end of each story, he jumps back into the empty box. The series is aimed primarily at teenagers, and seeks to reflect young people’s curiosity, courage and openness through this tiny protagonist as he steps out of his comfort zone and explores the world around him.
“Playfulness lies in the fact that the eternal childlike fantasy is capable of imagining anything in objects and able to create a complex world from the simplest things — wooden cubes, pebbles. The Mitch-Match series makes an attempt to trigger this ability from everyone,” said Tóth. “We decided to use the most basic object — a matchstick — to create a story. The film delivers a highly creative and playful animation style with a simplest gesture by bringing matchsticks to life and tries to encourage the audience to put together the pieces of the puzzle. In this filmmaking gesture, I wanted to find a way to bring out the eternal child from everyone.”
Carlos Biern, Content & Distribution Director at DeAPlaneta Kids & Family, commented, “It is unusual to find such innovative talent as the creative team behind KEDD Animation Studio. Including in DeAPlaneta Entertainment’s catalog an animated series as groundbreaking, original and imaginative as Mitch-Match allows us to reach a young adult and family audience interested in animated productions that fuel their imagination in a unique and unconventional way. We have been working closely with our team at DeAPlaneta Entertainment’s Eastern European office to select and distribute projects that have been produced locally. We are absolutely delighted that the first of these projects comes from Hungary and from such a prestigious company as KEDD Animation Studio.”
Tóthadded, “We are proud to be a professional partner of a successful company with a large international distribution experience like DeAPlaneta Entertainment. We have already done much to ensure that KEDD Animation Studio’s in-house developed and produced brands, festival films and animated children’s series have achieved many international professional festival and distribution successes in the studio’s 22 years of operation. This agreement is an important and honorable milestone in these efforts. I am convinced that the international recognition of KEDD’s productions will reach a new level with this partnership with DeAPlaneta Entertainment.”
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