John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFortified by top executive appointments, London-based Academy Award winning Passion Pictures is driving powerfully into long-form animation.It has already produced episodes of cult Netflix series “Love, Death & Robots” – “Life Hatch” and “Ice,” which scored three Emmy Awards – as well as Netflix’s “Headspace,” Disney’s “101 Dalmatian Street” and Nickelodeon’s “Lego City Adventures.”Building on that, Passion will unveil two new projects, “Greetings from the Apocalypse” and “Love,” at the MIFA TV Series & Specials Pitches on June 16.
Passion is the only company to have two titles in this category which currently packs a lot of the excitement and innovation at the cutting edge of current animation.
Produced by Passion Pictures Animation and U.S.-based Entertainment 360, “Greetings from the Apocalypse” is directed by France’s Maryka Laudet and Quentin Camus.
Recent graduates from its École des Nouvelles Images their credits include a series of shorts – “Xmas Hold ‘Em,” “Back to Cave One” and “Wild Love” – all knit by chic CG visuals and a dark humor.Written by Summer Plair, the eight-part half hour series is “a futuristic survival story, a story about two women who are trying to survive in a futuristic, apocalyptic wasteland,” said David Park, a Pixar veteran who was appointed Passion Pictures Animation head of production in 2021.One woman is a fugitive freedom fighter, the other an outcast bounty hunter.
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