Yeti Farm Creative & Surprise Bag Pact

Yeti Farm Creative has inked a strategic partnership with Surprise Bag to collaborate on original IP from their development slates.

The partnership will utilize Yeti Farm Creative’s 2D/3D animation facility and corporate infrastructure and Surprise Bag’s global sales, development, live-action and financing experience. The companies will collaborate on projects such as Sweet Tweets, Kick Flip, Schnarg, and Me, Myself and My Selfie.

The companies will also jointly pursue opportunities to acquire, develop and produce new IP and co-productions. They will cooperate to expand production services in the Okanagan Valley region of British Columbia, creating up to 200 new jobs with support from local government initiatives and tax incentives. Surprise Bag principals Frank Saperstein and Jack Saperstein will serve as executive producers and finance managers, alongside Yeti Farm partners Ashley Ramsay (CEO), Todd Ramsay and Jay Surridge. Frank Saperstein will join former Studio B partner Blair Peters as Yeti Farm Creative’s co-chairman of the board.

Yeti Farm Creative’s Ashley Ramsay said, “The strategic partnership we have formed with Surprise Bag fits with our growth strategy of expanding our studio’s reputation globally for high-caliber animation services and ambitious intellectual property pursuits. Frank Saperstein and Surprise Bag bring unparalleled experience to our corporate team and I could not be more excited to collaborate with him on new strategic initiatives we have underway.”

“Jack and I are excited to partner with the talented team at Yeti Farm in Kelowna,” commented Frank Saperstein, Surprise Bag’s CEO. “SBI will work with YFC’s physical and human resources utilizing regional tax incentives to grow the collective companies’ global service and development footprint while maintaining the highest standards of creative excellence.”