A REINFORCED BRAZILIAN DELEGATION ARRIVES AT KIDSCREEN SUMMIT 2020

Brazilian Content and Brazil Games will support the presence of 29 companies that will participate in business meetings for co-productions and international associations.

7 FEB 2020

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The official Brazilian delegation will represent the national kids’ content production industry, which grows every year in the country and attracts more and more investors from abroad. The group is led by Brazilian Content, the audiovisual content export project promoted by BRAVI, and Brazil Games, carried out by the Brazilian Game Companies Association, Abragames, both in partnership with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil).

Brazilian production companies have robust projects. Gabriel Garcia, CEO of Hype, says that one of the highlights will be the animated series ‘Guitar&Drum’, a co-production with Chilean studio Punkrobot that is currently on air on the Disney Junior channels in Latin America. In addition, they will announce a new partnership with Punkrobot and Peruvian company Red Studios. “Our goal is to join forces to offer more services to larger, more specific projects. We are expecting excellent results”, he says.

For Split Studio’s Cid Makino, Kidscreen is one of the main events in the sector and offers a cozy environment for closer networking. “We will, as always, look for partners for our projects, in addition to selling works already finished and offering animation services. This year we are taking the projects in-development ‘Kurgala’, ‘What’s up, Bud?’ and ‘A Tale of Sabbath’, in addition to our newly produced series ‘WeeBoom’”, he says.

Mary Morita, Executive Manager of Brazilian Content, ensures that Brazil has great opportunities in this market. “The production of children's content is one of the highlights of the current independent Brazilian production. We have produced hits in live action like ‘Gaby Estrella’ and ‘Blue Building Detectives’ and, of course, in animation for children and preschool audiences. This year, the delegation is taking to Kidscreen consolidated IPs like ‘Earth to Luna!’, ‘Jorel’s Brother’ and ‘Any Malu’, to name a few, and new projects like the international co-production ‘Holocards Warriors’. Our studios will attend the event in search of co-production, licensing and to attract international productions”, she says.

The companies that are attending Kidscreen in the Brazilian Content delegation are: 2DLab, Alopra Estúdio, Animaking, Apiário Estúdio Criativo, Belli Studio, Boutique Filmes, Bromelia, Chatrone América Latina, Combo Estúdio, Content Blue, Copa Studio, Dogs Can Fly, Druzina Content, Forest Comunicação, Ghost Jack Entertainment, Hype, Mono Animation, Petit Fabrik, Pinguim Content, PushStart, Sato Company, sBusiness, Split Studio, Story Productions, UP! Content Co., and UP Voice

Games in action

With the goal of strengtheningthe Brazilian industry of digital games, the project Brazil Games is taking the companies Akom Studio, Rockhead Studios, Webcore Games, Petit Fabrik and PushStart. The last two are also members of Brazilian Content.

“We will highlight the transmedia cases from Rockhead Studios, which at the 2019 Kidscreen Summit closed a co-production deal with Sardine Studios from Canada to make an animated series of the game ‘Starlit Adventures’; and the Timo case, from Webcore Games, a game based on a Brazilian comics. Timo was one of 4 Brazilian games selected for Google’s Indie Games Accelerator program in Singapore in 2019”, explains Eliana Russi, Manager of Brazil Games.

Rockhead intends to expand its commercial partnerships this year. According to Christian Lykawka, the company’s CEO, the goal is now to open new possibilities of co-production with studios from different countries, apart from prospecting buyers for their content, such as TV and VOD channels.

Camila Malaman, Partner and Director at Webcore Games, says the company already has many meetings scheduled and is looking for partners interested in producing an animated series in partnership with “Timo The Game”. The games studio will also be looking for partnerships for transmedia content.

The production of children's content is one of the highlights of the current independent Brazilian production” Mary Morita Executive Manager of Brazilian Content