The Tots

Drobci

This series of short bedtime stories features two small boys who discover the world around them. While playing, two inquisitive kid brothers teem with ideas that take them on unbelievable adventures and bring them to impossible situations; luckily, their compassion, creativity and cooperation always prevail in the end. Creatively, the entire series revolves around child play. The freedom and spontaneity children show when interpreting it as well as imagination, resourcefulness and humour it encourages in them is what the authors were primarily interested in and tried to capitalise on in the first place. Thus The Tots came about, bringing you amusing bedtime stories on what may happen when rascal Ben and know-all Tom play together.

  • Year:
    2016
  • Runtime:
    6x8 min.
  • Country:
    Slovakia
  • Director:
    Vanda Raýmanová, Michal Struss
  • Screenplay:
    Vanda Raýmanová
  • Animation:
    Vanda Raýmanová, Ivana Šebestová, Michal Haruštiak, Ivana Laučíková, Jozef Mitaľ, Dávid Štumpf
  • Music:
    Michal Novinski
  • Editor:
    Marek Šulík
  • Cast:
    Petra Polnišová, Michal Fajnor
  • Production:
    objectif, RTVS, plaftik
  • Sales:
    objectif, RTVS
  • Festivals:
    TOFUZI 2016 (Best TV serie), New York International Children‘s Film Festival 2016

Schedule:

13.11.2016 11:00 Gorila.sk Urban Space (free admission)

About the Director:

Vanda Raýmanová

Vanda Raýmanová (1973, Nová Baňa, Slovakia) completed her studies of animation at the Department of Film and Television of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where she currently works at the Animation Studio. She specialises in scriptwriting, illustration and animation. Her award–winning short film, Who Is There? (Kto je tam? 2010), has made it to international commercial distribution.

About the Director:

Michal Struss

Michal Struss (1975, Handlová, Slovakia) graduated from the Department of Film and Television of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, majoring in animation. His stop–motion animation picture, In the Box (1998), was nominated for a Student Academy Award. He worked on animation, visual effects and post– production of Blind Loves (Slepé lásky, 2008), Blue Tiger (Modrý tiger, 2011) or Deadly Stories (Smrteľné history, 2016). He was nominated for the Czech Lion for Blue Tiger in the category of best production design.