The 2017 TFOU ANIMATION prize was awarded to Zhéva Bloud and Laetitia Gau

Boulogne, 14 December 2017

2017 TFOU ANIMATION COMPETITION
Zhéva Bloud and Laetitia Gau
Winners of the 2017 competition, for Babou envers et contre touffe!

The 2017 TFOU ANIMATION prize was awarded this evening at the SACD Maison des Auteurs to: Zhéva Bloud and Laetitia Gau, co-writers of the Babou envers et contre touffe! screenplay.

Based on the theme “Listen to your heart, not what others say”, this year’s prize goes to the screenplay for an animated film for 6-10 year-olds designed to make children aware that they can have their own thoughts, ideas and values and encouraging them to exercise their critical faculties.

In this fourth year of the competition, the jury comprised Jean-Philippe Robin and Éric Rondeaux (writers and Associate Directors - Animation from SACD (the French society of authors and composers); Patricia Chalon and Danièle Ikidbachian from the “Enfance Majuscule” child protection charity; Hélène Wadowski from the French publishers’ association (SNE); and TF1’s artistic team of Ségolène Basso-Brusa, Pierre Doublier, Stéphanie Fourneraut, Stéphanie Gerthoffert, Yann Labasque, Sonia Le Caillec, Caroline Maret and Anne-Sophie Perrine. From a shortlist of 124 top-quality submissions, this year the jury awarded the prize to Zhéva Bloud and Laetitia Gau’s screenplay for Babou envers et contre touffe! because it treated 2017’s theme with humour and sensitivity.

In addition to the prize of €2,000 donated by SACD for the winning screenplay, the TF1 group and SACD, which is partnering the TFOU ANIMATION prize, have agreed to co-finance production of a 1’30’’ film to the tune of 15,000 euros and to distribute it from the summer of 2018 throughout the TFOU ecosystem and on the competition’s partner platforms.

The writers Zhéva Bloud and Laetitia Gau dreamed up the story of “Babou, a little girl with a crazy mop of hair who comes to understand that by being her own person she will get on better with others”. The two screenwriters “wanted the story to appeal to as many children as possible”. They say that “writing for children was a real challenge.” They tried “as far as possible to make the smallest gesture and description come alive so that the story could be told mainly in pictures – through gaffes, facial expressions, smiles and colours. Bringing the story to life was a real joy from start to finish”.