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Film animated at Triggerfish in Cape Town wins BAFTA Children’s Award

Revolting Rhymes, produced by Magic Light Pictures and animated at Magic Light’s Berlin studio and Cape Town’s Triggerfish, wins Best Animation at top British Awards ceremony.

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The film, which won Best Animation, is also nominated for three European Animation Awards and Best Animation at the International Emmy Kids Awards.

The two-part special has already won the Cristal for Best TV Production at Annecy in France, the world’s premiere animation festival; Best Animated Short at TIFF Kids; Best Animation at the World Banff Media Festival in Canada; Best Storytelling at Shanghai International Film and TV Festival in China; and the Children’s Jury Prize at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.

Of the accolade, Triggerfish CEO, Stuart Forrest says, “It’s an amazing honour to win at Britain’s most prestigious awards. We’re so proud of the team. This was the second year in a row that we’ve been nominated for our work with Magic Light, so winning is further proof that Africa is producing some of the best animation in the world.”

Revolting Rhymes is an adaptation of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake’s classic book of surprising fairytales. It’s voiced by a stellar cast that includes Dominic West from The Affair as The Wolf; Rose Leslie of Game of Thrones fame as Red Riding Hood, and Gemma Chan from Humans as Snow White.

Also keep an eye out for Magic Light Pictures’ third collaboration with Triggerfish, The Highway Rat, which is coming to BBC One this Christmas. It is an adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s bestseller, The Highway Rat and is a swashbuckling tale of bandits and biscuits.

Stick Man, Magic Light Pictures’ previous Donaldson/Scheffler production animated at Triggerfish, premiered on BBC One on Christmas Day 2015 to record ratings of 9.3 million viewers. With an overall 41 percent audience share, it was the fourth highest rated programme of the day. The film also won critical praise and a series of awards.

Other well-known Triggerfish animations include two of the top five highest-grossing South African feature films of all time: Adventures in Zambezia (2012) and Khumba (2013).