Fourth Season Set for DQ Co-Pro

HYDERABAD: DQ Entertainment has signed a co-production agreement with Gruppo Alcuni for a fourth season of the animated series And Yet It Moves.

Both the companies also have certain exclusive territories for exploitations of all rights. The series will be broadcast on Rai Fiction in Italy and other networks. Each episode features a different story line or theme that tackles important issues such as water resources, waste, pollution, climate change, the extinction of animals species and plants, intercultural exchange, food, alternative energy sources, urban planning. At the end of every episode there is a segment dedicated to scientific experiments that can be easily recreated at home by the young viewers.

Tapaas Chakravarti, the chairman and CEO of DQE Group, commented: "I am delighted to be extending our relationship with Italy’s biggest animation and children’s entertainment Group to over five years, as And Yet It Moves goes into its fourth season. Our relationship with Gruppo Alcuni also includes our first season of Leonardo and four very successful, seasons of Pet Pals."

Chakravarti continued: "These co-productions have been so well received that Gruppo Alcuni now operates The Talking Tree Park, a beautiful interactive theme park based on Pet Pals Characters, located in Treviso, Italy."

Francesco Manfio, the CEO of Gruppo Alcuni, said, “We are delighted at this new opportunity for collaboration with DQ Entertainment. We are convinced that in order to work together in this sector there must be a ‘feeling’ between companies which goes far beyond the financial aspects. We believe that the relationship between Gruppo Alcuni and DQ Entertainment is based on a shared vision of the fundamental role which animated productions represent in children’s development. Pet Pals, Leonardo and especially And Yet It Moves, are very much focused in this direction."

Manfio added, "We are sure that the success which these series enjoy around the world springs from the research which has been carried out by Gruppo Alcuni over the years, with the support of DQ Entertainment, both in relation to content as well as graphics."