Serious Kids Picks Up Cloth Cat’s First IP

Serious Kids has picked up the worldwide rights, excluding Welsh-speaking Wales, to Cloth Cat’s first IP, The Ghost of Midwinter.

Funded entirely through S4C, the Creative Wales Skills Fund and Cloth Cat, The Ghost of Midwinter is set in medieval Wales, where a young girl must save her father’s life against all odds.

The special is written and directed by Jon Rennie, with music composed by Brollyman.

“Building on Cloth Cat’s experience producing and animating series like Shane the Chef, Luo Bao Bei and Dave Spud, this is our first original broadcast film and wholly owned IP,” Rennie, managing director of Cloth Cat, said. “We hope this will be the first of many more Welsh stories. This is our first collaboration with Serious Kids, and we look forward to working with them!”

“We fell in love with the classic nature of this special, featuring a strong heroine who achieves everything she set out to do and more,” commented Genevieve Dexter, founder and CEO of Serious Kids. “The star performance of the ghost, coupled with the stirring music and gorgeous background,s makes this an important film for us. Spanning Halloween and winter seasons, it also provides good flexibility for programming.”