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Production Notes junglebeatthemovie.com Sandcastle Studios and Sunrise Productions present Production Notes Writer/Director: Brent Dawes Producers: Jacqui Cunningham, Phil Cunningham, Tim Keller, Rita Mbanga, Joe Pistorius Executive Producers: Stuart Baxter, Jacqui Cunningham, Phil Cunningham, Ralph Kamp, Fred Kritzinger, Sanet Kritzinger Run time: 1:28 Asset Links: Jungle Beat: The Movie Press Assets Website https://junglebeatthemovie.com Social Media Links https://www.instagram.com/junglebeatthemovie https://www.facebook.com/junglebeatthemovie https://www.youtube.com/user/SunriseJungleBeat https://twitter.com/JungleBeatMovie Press Contacts: Hayley Porter, [email protected] Fumi Kitahara, [email protected] 2 Logline A homesick alien crash-lands his spaceship near the colorful African Jungle. His new animal friends need to get him back to his ship and teach him about friendship and fun before his Space-Conqueror father can take over the planet. Short Synopsis Jungle Beat: The Movie is a charming, family friendly adventure of epic proportions. One morning, the animals of the jungle wake up to discover that they can speak. They’re even more amazed when they learn the reason why: There’s an alien in the jungle! Little FNEEP has come to conquer the planet and has brought some crazy tech with him, including a translation device that lets them talk for the first time. Unfortunately for the intergalactic Scaldronian empire, but fortunately for the jungle, Fneep is a terrible conqueror: He’s homesick, he’s crashed his ship, and he’s no match for the antics of MUNKI, TRUNK and the gang. Our heroes won’t let a little alien conquest get in the way of a good time or a new friend! As the animals help him on his journey home, he learns that friendship could be the greatest force in the universe. But is it a match for a spaceship full of aliens? 3 Full Synopsis Another fun morning in the African Jungle is interrupted when best friends MUNKI the monkey (David Menkin) and TRUNK the elephant (Ina Marie Smith) discover that they can talk for the first time in their lives! They soon stumble on the cause: A translation device belonging to a purple alien called FNEEP (Ed Kear). Fneep was sent to conquer Earth, but he crash landed his ship and is in desperate need of a pick- up. MUNKI, TRUNK and their animal friends band together to get him back home, and to teach him a bit about fun and friendship on the way. After a narrow escape from a musical wildebeest stampede led by the prima donna LEAD WILDEBEEST (Jason Pennycooke), they arrive back at the ship to witness the arrival of Fneep’s mean father GROGON THE CONQUEROR (David Rintoul) who plans to seize Earth for himself. FNEEP sides with the Jungle Beat animals against his father and the other aliens. Armed with compassion and confidence in his friends, FNEEP must use what he’s learnt from the Jungle to save the Earth. With the world at stake, he wins Grogon over with the most powerful weapon he has ever encountered… a hug. 4 Producer’s Note “Sandcastle Studios is an animation studio based on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Launched in 2018, Sandcastle’s first feature film, Jungle Beat: The Movie is based off the highly successful Jungle Beat brand. Sunrise was founded on a passion for storytelling, and believes that this story is made for such a time as this. In a world that is putting up walls, suspicious of others and their belief and intentions, this brave story shows how positivity and love are the most powerful weapons we actually have. The Jungle Beat brand was built over a decade, and this film epitomizes the essence of what the brand stands for. It is without doubt the brand’s flagship property and we are excited to share it with all our fans worldwide. Sandcastle loved the idea of producing Jungle Beat: The Movie as a first project, which was done in collaboration with Sunrise. Watch this space!” -Phil Cunningham and Sanet Kritzinger, executive producers of Sandcastle Studios 5 Director’s Note “I am thrilled to have made this feature film. It is a good dose of delightful, innocent family fun which champions friendship, acceptance and believing in one another despite the circumstances. Any screenwriter will tell you that your main characters need to go on a journey that they must learn and change by the end of the movie. I don’t believe that has to be the case. What if they are innocent and fun-loving at the beginning of the movie, AND at the end… and all the way throughout? With this movie I wanted to show consistency in character. That, despite difficult situations, remaining consistent in character is also possible and admirable and attainable! Does a friendship need to crack under pressure? Of course not! What if its strength can resist whatever is thrown at it? Our visiting character, Fneep, is the one who undergoes a change, as the unwavering purity and spirit of the Jungle Beat animals wins him over and conquers his heart. This is not an epic roller coaster ride of a movie. It is a fun, endearing movie that is intended to leave viewers with silly smiles on their faces, from its toe-tapping intro to its heart-warming ending, and beyond.” - Brent Dawes, Director 6 The Origins of Jungle Beat The Jungle Beat TV series has found international success, and has been broadcast in over 200 countries around the world. It also can’t be forgotten how successful Jungle Beat is on YouTube, with more than 3 million subscribers, and over a billion channel views! “For those who’ve grown up with the show and watched it for years and years, we are so delighted to bring a new dimension to the characters and the brand that you love.” - Jacqui Cunningham, executive producer “It has been amazing watch the Jungle Beat brand grow with the years, from one 5 minute pilot episode in 2005, to now almost 8 seasons of the show, plus spin off series and a feature film!” - Rita Mbanga, producer Adapting a beloved cartoon Jungle Beat has bounced across the world for years on Television and online. In 2020 the gang will finally swing by the silver screen in their feature film debut! “Having the room, space, and time to tell a bigger story, I found it came naturally. It was easy and quite liberating to break away from the original time constraints of the television show and tell a larger story.” - Brent Dawes, writer and director Sandcastle and Sunrise are delighted to be able to build on the success of the tv show in new and exciting ways. And this is just the beginning. “The Jungle Beat franchise has always been a growing universe. Every season we’ve gone to new places, met new characters and made the creative choices that interested us. Every opportunity we had to zig, we zagged away from the expected path. I hope that the audience enjoys exploring this ever-expanding world with us, so we can go to a lot more wild and fun places in the future!” - Sam Wilson, writer 7 Swinging for the stars This isn’t just a big step for our furry friends, but also a giant leap for the studios and team. “Legitimately, just getting to make it was such a great honour. As a company, we have been aiming to make feature films for the last 12 years, and the fact that we finally got to working on one is amazing. I’ve been working on the tv show and the shorts for more than 12 years. I’ve been operating on non-dialogue characters for so long that making a long-form film where the characters talk is so fun and fresh and liberating.” - Brent Dawes, writer and director “I’ve enjoyed the challenge of it, doing something on a scale that we’ve never done before. The series is one thing, but whenever you’re doing a movie, you need to step it up a level.” - Lynton Levengood, art director “This saying of Orson Welles’ really resonates with me, “The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.” Jungle Beat: The Movie had significant limitations on all fronts and this birthed beautiful creativity, team collaboration and fun. It was a real privilege to see such a wonderful group of people unify to solve problems, find solutions and push each other to be better.” - Phil Cunningham, executive producer 8 Who is this film for? Jungle Beat has always been a franchise for all cultures and all ages. A great time for any kind of family... This movie was created so we could take our families to a film that wouldn’t be packed full of unnecessary violence, mean humour or pop culture references that will be forgotten in 2 years. It is an incredibly good hearted, sweet, witty film that anyone can feel very happy bringing their children to see. “I wrote and made this movie so that anyone who watches it will enjoy it. It was important to me: As a father of four, I always try to find a movie that we can all watch. I’ve got a range of ages too, 5 to 15 years old, so finding a movie we can all watch, where a 5 year old isn’t too scared and the 15 year old isn’t bored, is tricky. This movie is definitely for a broad audience.” - Brent Dawes, writer and director Following in the grand tradition of wholesome animation classics, this film is for fans of animation and good storytelling: “We are a family company and we believe that people are more important than process.
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