The Gruffalo is a 2009 British-German short animated film based on the picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
Directed by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang, the film was produced by Michael Rose and Martin Pope of Magic Light Pictures, London, in association with the award winning Studio Soi in Ludwigsburg, Germany, who developed and created the film.
The cast includes Helena Bonham Carter, Rob Brydon, Robbie Coltrane, James Corden, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson.
9.8 million people watched the UK premiere on BBC One, Friday December 25, 2009 and the film went on to receive both an Academy Award
and a BAFTA nomination.
The short will be screened in US theaters, where it will be distributed by Kidtoon Films. Also, a The Wiggles feature will be screened alongside it. In December 2012, the film and its sequel The Gruffalo's Child premiered on television in the United States on PBS Kids Sprout.
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^ "Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
^ "Film Awards Nominations". BAFTA website. 21 January 2010.
^ Sarto, Dan (December 7, 2012). "Gruffalo’s Child to Premiere on Sprout". Animation World Network. Retrieved January 1, 2013.Synopsis
The Gruffalo tells the tale of a mouse who takes a walk though the woods in search of a nut. Encountering three predators who all wish to eat him - a fox, an owl and a snake - the plucky mouse has to use his wits to survive. He announces that he is meeting a monster with terrible features, a ‘Gruffalo’, and the three predators are each panicked into running away.
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