Turkish toon house Fauna Entertainment (Kukuli, Brody Luckystar, Briko) announced a partnership with music label EDZ, owned by Turkish pop star Özgün, to co-produce a new music-led animated series which promotes inclusivity and teaches young viewers the importance of accepting each other’s differences.
“My son, Ediz, is the source of our inspiration for the series,” Özgün shared. “Although we have never seen him different than anyone, Ediz was born with Down syndrome, and he kept on inspiring us every day. We didn’t want to make a show to point out how normal kids with Down syndrome are, but on the contrary wanted to praise how we should accept everyone however they are, feel and want to be.”
The new show called Ediko, from the Turkish diminutive of Ediz, is being produced for a preschool audience with a planned YouTube Kids exclusive launch by the end of March, coinciding with the inspirational boy’s birthday.
Fauna Entertainment’s digital media unit will be taking over and managing the YouTube channel Ediko TV, adding it under the Fauna Channel umbrella.
