Sonar in Co-Pro on Mixed-Media Series Bear & Salmon

Sonar Entertainment is teaming up with Like A Photon Creative to produce the new mixed-media preschool show Bear & Salmon.

Bear & Salmon centers on the unlikely friendship between two animals while also answering some of life’s biggest questions from the perspective of young children. Creators Nadine Bates and Kristen Souvlis will produce the 104×3-minute program in their Brisbane studio, with Sonar on board to manage international distribution and formatting rights.

“Bear & Salmon is a truly remarkable and groundbreaking series, both conceptually and technologically,” said Andrea Gorfolova, the president of kids’, family and factual at Sonar Entertainment. “Not only have Nadine and Kristen allowed the content to be ingeniously and entirely created by children, capturing authentic answers to life’s biggest questions, the versioning system they’ve created for the series can track any story in any language and automatically animate it in real time. This allows us at Sonar to provide distributors with a truly universal series, one that can feel completely authentic to any territory in the world.”

“After working with children for the past five years, we’ve experienced the incredible imaginations and magical storytelling ability they possess; coming up with ideas and stories that no adult writer ever could,” added Nadine Bates, the creative director of Like A Photon Creative. “For the first time ever, we wanted to create a show that tapped into that. A show where children can tell their own stories in their own words, to other children. About the world. About their feelings. Engaging their imaginations in a way that is unique for kids’ programming.”