Marta Balaga Picolo Pictures has unveiled exclusive first-look images for their upcoming feature “On the Run” (“La petite cavale”), currently presented at Annecy’s MIFA Pitches.
The film will see a young male blue penguin, Cookie, who dreams of becoming a dad. Cookie can’t lay an egg, but a volcanic eruption turns his New Zealand refuge upside down and sets a curious soft echidna’s egg in his path.
What if this was the little one he had been waiting for? “At the heart of the film is our wish to tell the story of a family bond,” its director Julien Bisaro tells Variety.
Bisaro co-writes with Claire Paoletti. “That’s one of the major issues for our two characters, who belong to completely different species: Making it work!
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