A. Film Production

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A. Film Production A/S
Industry Animation
GenreTraditional and CGI Animation
Founded1 August 1988 (1988-08-01)
Founder
Stefan Fjeldmark
HeadquartersDannebrogsgade 1, ,
Website afilm.com

A. Film Production A/S (previously A. Film A/S, A. Film ApS and A. Film I/S) is a Danish animation studio and production company currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Affiliated to the Copenhagen studio are A. Film Estonia located in Estonia and A. Film L.A., Inc. in Southern California. It produces traditional and CGI animation for feature films, television, advertising and games. The studio's notable original features include Checkered Ninja , Help! I'm a Fish , Jungledyret Hugo and Terkel in Trouble . [1] A pig serves as a mascot to said company.

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History

The studio was founded on 1 August 1988 by animators Stefan Fjeldmark, Karsten Kiilerich, Jørgen Lerdam and Hans Perk and producer Anders Mastrup [2] who met while working on the 1986 film Valhalla based on the Danish comics of the same name, and was originally headquartered at Tagensvej 85 in Copenhagen. In 1995, the Danish media corporation Egmont purchased 50% of A. Film and moved A. Film under the umbrella of its film division, Nordisk Film. Stefan Fjeldmark left A. Film in 2008 to pursue a career in live-action. Several animators who began their careers at A. Film became well established at the Disney and DreamWorks studios. Since about 1995, the company's logo is a grinning pig, designed by Finn Skovgaard.

In 2010, A. Film A/S split into two companies: A. Film Production A/S which continues independent film production and is now located at Dannebrogsgade 1 in Copenhagen, and A. Film A/S under Nordisk Film which manages the rights of the earlier productions. The A. Film group of companies, with A. Film Production A/S as its base, includes the independent studios A. Film Eesti in Tallinn, Estonia (est. 1994) and A. Film L.A., Inc. in Los Angeles, California (est. 2008). In Berlin, Germany, A. Film used to be part of the studio Friendly Fritz. It previously owned studios in Riga, Latvia (2002–2010) and Munich, Germany (2006–2009). The A. Film companies also worked as a subcontractor on 28 films including FernGully: The Last Rainforest , Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina , Asterix Conquers America , The Little Punker , The Secret Weapon, Once Upon a Forest , Felidae , Balto , The Iron Giant , The Princess and the Goblin (1993), Tarzan II , The Jungle Book 2 , Curious George , The Pebble and the Penguin , A Troll in Central Park , All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 , Quest for Camelot and Eight Crazy Nights . In 2007, A. Film A/S provided services on Disney's Goofy: How to Hook Up Your Home Theater .

A. Film Production A/S has recently released several feature films including Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble, Albert, Alfie Atkins: Hocus Pocus and the stop-motion film Miffy the Movie .

Filmography

Note: This section lists films produced by the company.

Traditionally animated films

Computer animated films

Television series

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References

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