Brazilian studio Coala Movies has boarded the Portuguese animated characteristic “Una” from Oscar-shortlisted “Percebes” producer BAP – Animation Studios. With the brand new backing, manufacturing is now able to kick off within the new 12 months.

“Una,” highlighted throughout a Portuguese Tasks Pitch at Annecy final June, marks the characteristic movie debut of David Doutel and Vasco Sá, producers at BAP – Animation Studios whose personal shorts as administrators, resembling “Soot” (2014), “Augur” (2018) and “Garrano” (2022) have earned the duo plaudits around the globe.

With “Una,” Doutel and Sá deal with more and more pressing social points, linking the riot of younger Una in opposition to a smoke-belching lithium mine in her village mountain valley to different makes an attempt to push again in opposition to the ravages of rampant eco-destructive capitalism around the globe.

“Una” is being made with the monetary help of ICA (Portugal), ANCINE (Brazil), PIC Portugal – Money Rebate and MEDIA Artistic Europe, and is produced by Bando à Parte with co-producers BAP Animation Studios, which dealt with the movie’s pre-production, and, now, Coala Filmes.

“The co-production with our associates from Coala Filmes in Brazil proved to be basic because it allowed us to lastly begin the manufacturing of the movie at first of this new 12 months,” Sá defined to Selection of the movie’s new companion.

“We’re actually pleased to know that part of ‘Una’ will likely be made in a rustic meaning a lot to us and with whom we’ve got such an in depth relationship, each by way of the language that unites us and the very theme of the movie, by which we share the identical considerations,” he added.

Coala Filmes is an animation studio with greater than 20 years of expertise. It’s catalog contains the quick movies “Dossiê Rê Bordosa” and “Tempestade” in addition to the standout characteristic “Bob Spit – We Don’t Like Folks,” the corporate’s first characteristic which premiered within the Contrechamp competitors at Annecy 2021, the place it received the part’s greatest movie prize. It was additionally the primary Latin American movie to obtain the Grand Prix on the equally prestigious Ottawa Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant.

Though lots of the essential items of “Una’s” manufacturing puzzle at the moment are in place, extra collaborators may very well be on the best way.

“We’re nonetheless working with some doable companions to see in the event that they’ll be a part of us on this journey, so we’ll definitely have extra information quickly,” says Sá.