Blackie & Kanuto

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Blackie & Kanuto
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Film poster
Directed by Francis Nielsen
Written by Angel E. Pariente, Segundo Altolaguirre, Gorka Sesma
Produced by Fabio Massimo Cacciatori, Eduardo Barinaga, François Cohen-Séat, Davide Tromba, Karmelo Vivanco
Music byXavier Berthelot
Production
companies
Baleuko
Lumiq Studios
Film Investment Piedmont
Art'Mell
Talape
Release dates
  • May 2012 (2012-05)(Cannes Film Festival)
  • February 15, 2013 (2013-02-15)(Spain)
Running time
81 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
Spain
LanguagesBasque
Spanish
French
Italian

Blackie & Kanuto (also titled Head over Hooves, Black to the Moon 3D, and Pup) is a 2012 animated comedy adventure film directed by Francis Nielsen and produced by Baleuko, Lumiq Studios, Film Investment Piedmont, Art'Mell and Talape. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

The production was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012. [6]

In Italy, Turin, Blackie & Kanuto's preview was on December 4, 2013. [6]

Premise

Blackie is a black sheep who lives, flawed and proud, on a farm where she is famous for combining everything. But this is not enough for Blackie: she wants to go to the Moon. Blackie and Kanuto, a sheepdog in love with the sheep, set off on an adventure where they meet many curious characters, including two birds known for the singing TV reality show they come from, an opera-singing cow, and a fashion designer wolf with a high level of fashion.

Production

The film project is a production of Baleuko, Lumiq Studios in Turin, [7] Film Investment Piedmont, Art'Mell and Talape.

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  7. Blackie & Kanuto/Black to the Moon 3D – the newest European animation film - interview with Franco Bevione and Francis Nielsen - European Animation Magazine - http://www.animationmagazine.eu/blackie-kanuto-black-to-the-moon-3d-the-newest-european-animation-film-video/ Archived 2013-04-06 at the Wayback Machine