press release: France/Canada feature coproduction announced at TAC

Under the framework of the Cartoon Connection, in conjunction with the International Animation Festival of Ottawa, Florent Mounier, Cofounder of 2d3D Animations (Angoulême/France) and Danny Bergeron, President of Wizzfilms Inc. (Montreal) are pleased to announce their partnership for the coproduction of « The Rise of Zelphire », an animated feature adapted from the 2009 Karim Friha comic book series published by Édition Gallimard. The production will be shared between the two studios, situated respectively in Angoulême and Montréal. The collaborators have announced that they will tell the story through an innovative stop-motion animation technique which has been developed specifically for the project by 2d3D Animation and Montreal-based Mokko Studio.