Nelvana Home Entertainment and Criterion Pictures have entered into a five-year agreement that grants Criterion non-theatrical distribution rights to animated titles from Nelvana’s library. The shows will be distributed in both English and French to such venues as schools, daycare centers, libraries and museums.
Series covered under the deal include Anatole (episodes 1-26), Babar (episodes 1-78), The Berenstain Bears (episodes 1-40), Corduroy (episodes 1-13), Franklin (episodes 1-78), Little Bear (episodes 1-52) and Elliot Moose (episodes 1-13), with other titles under consideration.
‘Nelvana endeavours to strike a balance between educational curriculum and entertaining programming, which has made our library long sought-after in educational markets,’ says Peter Maule, VP of home entertainment and retail distribution for Nelvana. ‘We have finally entered this burgeoning market with a partner that continues to set the benchmark for content distribution and emerging technologies.’
Criterion Pictures, in association with the Visual Education Centre, is the principal provider of audiovisual learning resources to Canadian schools.
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