nWave studios, Octopolis and A Contracorriente will present the world premiere of their upcoming animated feature The Inseparables at the Annecy Festival animation super event in France (June 11-17). The studio partners have also unveiled the teaser trailer for this imaginative new buddy adventure written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (Toy Story).
Producer Matthieu Zeller and director Jérémie Degruson (The House of Magic, Bigfoot Junior, Bigfoot Family) will attend the festival to introduce audiences to a new duo of original characters — a runaway puppet with boundless imagination and an abandoned stuffed animal toy in need of a friend — who cross paths in Central Park and pair up against all odds for an epic adventure of friendship in the big city.
With The Inseparables, nWave studios return to Annecy three years after the festival hosted a screening of Bigfoot Family as part of their 2020 edition.
“We couldn’t dream of a better launchpad for The Inseparables than Annecy, a high-end festival that fosters the very same diversity and vitality of animation we’re thriving on at nWave,” said Zeller, who is also CEO of nWave studios. “It feels like the perfect place for us to share with audiences this imaginative, ambitious and audacious project of heart, which we feel reflects our European roots and our ability to tell universal stories.“
Degruson added, “I can’t wait to be back and present our new movie in person in Annecy to animation-loving crowds from all around the world, who are gathered by the same passion for quality animation and for creativity which is the soul of Annecy and the spice of my work as a director.”
The Inseparables has already secured theatrical distribution for this year in territories including Spain, Benelux, Portugal, Scandinavia, Poland, Eastern Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Vietnam and Korea.
Budgeted at about $25 million, the France-Belgium-Spain coproduction is a story by Cohen and Sokolow, adapted into a screenplay by Bob Barlen & Cal Brunker (Bigfoot Family, PAW Patrol: The Movie, The Nut Job 2).
