World Screen

World Screen and TV Kids are teaming with Reed MIDEM to present the fifth-annual Kids Trendsetter Awards at MIPJunior, this year honoring Iginio Straffi, Marc du Pontavice, Bronagh O'Hanlon and Rajiv Chilaka.

Bionic Max, a 2D buddy comedy aimed at kids in the 6-to-11 set, leads Gaumont’s slate of offerings at NATPE Budapest this year.

The Studio 100 Media and m4e series Heidi is touting 26 new adventures of the happy orphan girl who handles the challenges of everyday life with a smile.

Monster Entertainment’s The Day Henry Met…?—which is currently broadcasting on free-TV channels in Poland, Latvia and Estonia—follows the titular character on a different adventure each day, as he befriends everything from animals to the Moon.

Mondo TV Group’s highlights, including MeteoHeroes, center on the theme of respect for the environment.

Among the new children’s titles that Cisneros Media is developing is AnimalFanPedia, a wildlife program shot exclusively in HD that will take young viewers around the world and introduce them to giraffes, sharks, tigers and more, exploring how they live and what they need to survive.

With highlights such as The Athena and The Bureau of Magical Things, ZDFE.junior is “the number one address when it comes to successful live-action series,” according to VP Peter Lang.

Leading the slate of titles Cyber Group Studios is taking to the marketplace is Taffy, the company’s first Boomerang original series.

Green Gold Animation is focusing on its preschool series Mighty Little Bheem, Netflix’s first original animated series from India, at Licensing Expo.

Panda and Krash, a Russian-Chinese co-production, is among the highlighted properties in FUN Union’s catalog.