Dandelooo to Produce TFOU d’Animation Contest Winner

Haut Perché! (English working title High Perched), the winner of TF1 Group’s annual TFOU d’Animation Contest, is set to be produced by Dandelooo.

After the prize was awarded to the scriptwriter of Haut Perché!, Laetitia Salsano, a call for talent directing was launched among young animation school graduates. Emeline Penet, a graduate from Ecole des Métiers d’Art et d’Animation, Angoulême, won the call and will direct the one-and-a-half-minute film.

The theme of this year’s TFOU d’Animation Contest was “Nature, Our Greatest Adventure!,” encouraging children to drop their screen activities and go outside and play, create their own games and experience adventures that instill a love of nature and the need to protect it for the future.

Co-financed by TF1 Group and Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, the completed Haut Perché! will be screened at MIFA 2022, Annecy and broadcast on all of TF1’s linear and digital screens from June 2022.

“We were charmed by the originality and freshness of Emeline’s proposal, which reflects her talent and enthusiasm,” said Jean-Baptiste Wery and Emmanuèle Pétry Sirvin, Dandelooo’s co-producers. “We are delighted to support Emeline in the creation of this ode to nature and proud to have the renewed and continued confidence of TF1 for the fourth year.”