A&N Productions (founded by animator/producer Adam Yaniv), Aircraft Pictures (producers of the Academy Award-nominated animated feature film The Breadwinner and Emmy-nominated series Holly Hobbie) and Yeti Farm Creative (Pete the Cat, Hotel Transylvania: The Series) announced today the start of key animation on the new 2D-animated series, Summer Memories. Commissioned by WildBrain Television’s Family Channel, the 20 x half-hour episode series is distributed internationally by WildBrain Ltd.
Created by Yaniv, Summer Memories began as a short film produced as part of the Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program. The series follows the time-and-space-bending adventures of best friends Jason and Ronnie as Jason looks back on the most pivotal summer of his life (which was just a few weeks ago).
The series voice stars Tricia Black (Second City, Baroness Von Sketch), Yaniv, Jonathan Langdon (No Tomorrow, Utopia Falls), Dani Kind (Workin’ Moms, Wynonna Earp) and Rakhee Morzaria (My Spy, Note to Self) and features guest stars including Jason Priestly (Beverly Hills 90210).
“Wholly original, yet full of relatable themes, Summer Memories is a wonderful take on childhood through the unbelievably talented and inventive lens of Adam Yaniv,” said Anthony Leo and Andrew Rosen, co-founders of Aircraft Pictures. “We are incredibly excited to be partnering with A&N Productions, Yeti Farm Creative and WildBrain Television in bringing this new series to life.”
Yaniv served as an animator and animation supervisor on such family features as Night at the Museum, Hop and The Chronicles of Narnia, and currently serves as supervising producer on Nickelodeon’s Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks television series.
“I’m so proud to share our authentic and hilarious characters and their seriously massive totally the best you’ve ever seen life-changing friendship with everybody. I think kids and their families everywhere will get a kick out of it,” said Yaniv.
Production on the series is currently underway in Kelowna, Toronto and Jerusalem. Summer Memories is a Canada-Israel treaty co-production with Yaniv, Paul B. Cummings (Adult Swim, Comedy Central), Irene Weibel (Moon & Me, Hotel Transylvania: The Series), Oded Turgeman, Aircraft’s Leo and Rosen and Yeti Farm’s Ashley Ramsay and Jay Surridge serving as executive producers. Production services in Jerusalem provided by The Hive Studio.
“Summer Memories is a unique and endearing series, equal parts funny and heartwarming,” said Katie Wilson, VP Channels and Curation, WildBrain Television. “We’re thrilled to have partnered with A&N Productions, Aircraft Pictures and Yeti Farm to commission this primetime animated series for Family Channel. I can’t wait to introduce Canadian families to Ronnie, Jason and the rest of the Summer Memories cast of characters.”
Summer Memories is produced with the financial participation of the Canada Media Fund, Shaw Rocket Fund and the Jerusalem Film & Television Fund at the Jerusalem Development Authority. The series is slated to debut in Canada on Family Channel in Summer 2022.
Watch the original short below:
Summer Memories – Short from WildBrain on Vimeo.
