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‘Flow’ Producer Sacrebleu Productions’ Upcoming Feature ‘The Bird Kingdom’ Acquired by Lucky Number (EXCLUSIVE)
The animated anti-violence fable is produced by French 'Flow' producer Sacrebleu Productions and Brazil's Lupa Filmes.
Set in a fantasy version of the Brazilian Sertão, an arid wasteland where men can shapeshift into birds of prey, protagonist Assum Preto is taken as a child by Carcara, an outlaw who aspires to be a local legend. Launched last year by former mk2 films acquisition and sales agents Barbier and Ola Byszuk and ex-Orange Studio exec Lenny Porte, Lucky Number is making its EFM debut this year, where it is also repping Thierry Machado’s Greenland-set dog-sledding adventure “Pipaluk” and Annemarie Jacir’s “Palestine 36,” starring Jeremy Irons. The Steampunk series, which drew tremendous buzz at last year’s Cartoon Forum, begs the question: “What if Marie Curie had created the first superheroes by experimenting with radium on the battlefields of World War I?”
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