EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Folivari Worldwide has acquired world gross sales rights for hit French animated collection Samuel.
The cope with French manufacturing firm Les Valseurs follows the brief format present’s runaway success in France, Germany and Spain.
Consisting of easy black and white illustrations and a voiceover by creator and director Émilie Tronche, the present follows 10-year-old protagonist Samuel as he navigates the complexities of friendships and crushes whereas transitioning from elementary to center faculty.
The collection is produced by Damien Megherbi and Justin Pechberty at Paris-based manufacturing and distribution firm Les Valseurs, who developed its progressive format bridging linear broadcasting and social media.
Up to now, Samuel has generated greater than 35 million views on Arte and its social channels in France and Germany.
The collection has additionally delivered successful for Spain’s nationwide broadcaster RTVE and the regional Catalan channel TV3, and their respective platforms. It’s also the primary animated collection to be shotwcased on TikTok by these channels.
It has additionally loved excessive ranges of engagement on Instagram and YouTube.
“We’re thrilled to characterize such an progressive and inventive collection as Samuel,” mentioned Folivari Worldwide Head of Gross sales Mélissa Vega, who has introduced the deal forward of the collection being showcased within the screening library of the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-vous in Biarritz.
“The success of Samuel in Europe highlights its worldwide potential, and we’re excited to work with Les Valseurs to carry it to a fair wider viewers.”
For Les Valseurs, the deal represents a big step in its development technique.
The corporate has produced a number of award-winning brief movies, together with Depraved Lady, which received the Jury Prize at Annecy and a César for Greatest Animated Brief, is now actively increasing into function movies and collection.
“We selected Folivari Worldwide as a result of we really feel carefully aligned with Folivari’s DNA and belief their workforce to unlock the worldwide potential of a singular program like Samuel,” mentioned Megherbi.
“This partnership marks a vital step in growing a brand new type of animated collection that can result in the creation of recent IPs with worldwide attain.”
French animation firm Folivari – led by Damien Brunner, Sarah Delmas, and Thibaut Ruby – launched Folivari Worldwide earlier this yr in a transfer to develop its attain outdoors of France.
Its slate additionally options collection Nino Dino and The 4 of Baker Avenue produced by Folivari and in addition to just lately acquired Guitar & Drum (Punk Robotic, Hype).
