DeAPlaneta Entertainment Picks Up Mitch-Match

DeAPlaneta Entertainment has acquired the worldwide rights to the animated series Mitch-Match, produced by Hungary’s KEDD Animation Studio (Berry and Dolly, KUFLIS).

The series, aimed at families and young adults, follows a playful piece of matchstick as it pops out of its box and goes on adventures. It is written, scripted and designed by Géza M. Tóth (Maestro), founder of KEDD Animation Studio.

“Playfulness lies in the fact that the eternal childlike fantasy is capable of imagining anything in objects and able to create a complex world from the simplest things—wooden cubes, pebbles,” Tóth said. “The Mitch-Match series makes an attempt to trigger this ability from everyone. We decided to use the most basic object—a matchstick—to create a story. The [series] delivers a highly creative and playful animation style with a simplest gesture by bringing matchsticks to life and tries to encourage the audience to put together the pieces of the puzzle. In this filmmaking gesture, I wanted to find a way to bring out the eternal child from everyone.”

Carlos Biern, content and distribution director at DeAPlaneta Kids & Family, said, “It is unusual to find such innovative talent as the creative team behind KEDD Animation Studio. Including in DeAPlaneta Entertainment’s catalog an animated series as groundbreaking, original and imaginative as Mitch-Match allows us to reach a young adult and family audience interested in animated productions that fuel their imagination in a unique and unconventional way. We have been working closely with our team at DeAPlaneta Entertainment’s Eastern European office to select and distribute projects that have been produced locally. We are absolutely delighted that the first of these projects comes from Hungary and from such a prestigious company as KEDD Animation Studio.”

“We are proud to be a professional partner of a successful company with a large international distribution experience like DeAPlaneta Entertainment,” Tóth added. “We have already done much to ensure that KEDD Animation Studio’s in-house developed and produced brands, festival films and animated children’s series have achieved many international professional festival and distribution successes in the studio’s 22 years of operation. This agreement is an important and honorable milestone in these efforts. I am convinced that the international recognition of KEDDs productions will reach a new level with this partnership with DeAPlaneta Entertainment.”