Dandelooo opens an animated film division

Luna Sirvin has joined the company to head up Dandelooo Cinéma in an international sales and acquisitions manager role.
February 15, 2024

French prodco/distributor Dandelooo has established a new business unit dedicated to animated feature films that will acquire, develop, produce and market movies for kids and families. 

Luna Sirvin (pictured), who joined the company last month, will head up Dandelooo Cinéma as an international sales and acquisitions manager for feature films. She previously spent seven years working in a director of communications and marketing role at French studio Folivari.

The launch of this new Paris-based division is positioned as a “strategic expansion” for Dandelooo, which is looking to broaden its business in the theatrical market, where kids and family titles are performing quite well right now.

According to a Unifrance report published last month, international ticket sales for French movies were up by 38.5% in 2023 compared to the previous year. And this spike was largely driven by animated kids features like Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie (Mediawan Kids & Family and ZAG) and Epic Tails (TAT Productions), which earned US$40 million and US$14 million at the global box office, respectively.

Pictured from left to right: Hola Frida!, Granny is a Tree and Born in the Jungle.

Among the upcoming films that Dandelooo Cinéma will represent in the international market is Granny is a Tree! (70 minutes), which it’s co-producing with French/German studio Laďdak Films and Luxembourg’s Doghouse Films. Currently in development and slated for a December 2025 delivery, this project targets the seven-plus crowd with a story about a young girl on a quest to fulfill the last wish of her late grandmother—whose ghost tags along for the ride.

The new division has also secured international theatrical rights to a pair of third-party animated movies. Hola Frida! (75 minutes, September 2024) from Haut et Court Distribution (France) and Canada’s Tobo Media and Du Coup Studio Production explores the fictionalized childhood of legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo for five- to nine-year-olds. And preschool pic Born in the Jungle (70 minutes, May 2025) from Latvia’s Atom Art, Poland’s Letko and Hausboot in Czech Republic is set in the Venezuelan rainforest, where a nine-year-old girl must venture to find her young brother before their parents get home.

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