Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Foothill Ent. is traveling to Cannes next month with a bunch of new animated kids shows for the MIPCOM Jr. and MIPCOM markets. The company’s expanded catalogue includes Snapper, Milton the Monster, Rarg, Bubble Town, DigiSquid, Microbe Patrol and Solar Ice.
An animal adventure set in the Amazon, Snapper is created by U.K.’s Phew!! and produced by Malaysia’s POV Studio. Milton the Monster is an animated cult classic from legendary producer Hal Seeger and Rarg is a new show from award-winning U.K. studio Collingwood-O’Hare, whose Animal Stories is also distributed by Foothill.
Through a strategic alliance with Malaysian producer Vision Animation, Foothill will act as the exclusive worldwide (exept Asia) distributor for Vision’s Space Clowns (26 x 30′), and animated comedy a zany group of intergalactic circus clowns who find themselves battling The Villainously Evil Ringmaster. Foothill will also be distributing four additional Vision series. Bubble Town Club is an underwater adventure series portraying the everyday life of adorable sea creatures living in the South China Sea’s Coral Reef. DigiSquad follows Net, a computer whiz kid who unknowingly unleashes the most devastating computer virus ever and must band with his anti-virus friends to keep our networks free of threats. In the CG series Microbe Patrol, four brave surgical soldiers who allow themselves to be shrunken in order to use quantum science to cure the world’s most deadly diseases. Finally, Foothill will be seeking pre-sale partners for the Vision series Solar Ice, a fantasy comedy-adventure about a pair of superhero twins, a wise guru and a motley group of monstrous villains who clash in a surreal, medieval setting.
Foothill was founded in September of 2000 by former DIC Ent. exec VP of business and legal affairs Gregory Payne and former Link Television Ent. senior VP of U.S. operations Jo Kavanagh-Payne. In addition to pushing its new shows at MIPCOM, the company will continue to generate interest in the comedic adventure movie Toy Warrior. Produced by Seoul Movie, the property has already sold to Jetix in the U.S. and Cartoon Network in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, India and Eastern Europe. It has also been licensed to Germany, Turkey and the Middle East.
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