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MARTIN AND THE MAGICAL FOREST (2021)

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ABOUT THE FILM

The adventurous story about an young geek city boy Martin, who has to overcome himself and stay two weeks in the summer camp without his comfort and any technology. Here he will be challenged to help the forest creatures to save their forest of being destroyed by greedy developers.

The family film by Petr Oukropec based on the screenplay by Kateřina Kačerovská.

The project is realised in co-production of Leitwolf Filmproduktion (DE), BFILM.cz (CZ) and Negativ (CZ). The project was financially supported by the Czech Film Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the film fund Nordmedia, the South Moravian Film Foundation, the programme of European Union Creative Europe MEDIA and the Pilsen Region. The international sales agent of the film is Attraction Distribution.

fiction, CZ/SK/DE, 2021, 80 min.

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TRAILER

Our film is available on these platforms:
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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

The world premiere of this film was held in March 2021 at International Children and Youth Film Festival BUFF in Malmö.

You could have seen Martin and the Forest Secret at these festivals:

International Children and Youth Film Festival BUFF 2021, Malmö, Sweden
Goldener Spatz – Deutsches Kinder Medienfestival 2021, Gera, Germany
Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival 2021, Seoul, South Korea
Motovun Film Festival 2021, Motovun, Croatia
Cinemagic 2021, Dublin, Ireland
Dytiatko – Int. Children’s Media Festival 2021, Charkov, Ukraine
61st Zlín Film Festival 2021, Zlín, Czechia
Dětský festival Oty Hofmana 2021, Ostrov, Czechia
Zurich Film Festival 2021, Zurich, Switzerland
15th Buster Copenhagen Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth 2021, Copenhagen, Danemark
8th Kids Kino International Film Festival 2021, Warsaw, Poland
LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers 2021, Frankfurt, Germany
BFI London Film Festival 2021, London, Great Britain
SCHLiNGEL International Film Festival 2021, Chemnitz, Germany
Sharjah International Film Festival 2021, Sharjah, UAE
35th Cinekid International Children’s Film Festival 2021, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Riga International Film Festival 2021, Riga, Latvia
39th KinderFilmFest Münster  2021, Münster, Germany
Filem’On – Brussels Children’s Film Festival 2021, Brussels, Belgium
31st FilmFestival Cottbus 2021, Cottbus, Germany
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2021, Chicago, USA
Oulu Int’l Children and Youth Film Festival 2021, Oulu, Finland
Athens International Children’s Film Festival 2021, Athens, Greece

AUTHORS

Director: Petr Oukropec
Screenplay: Kateřina Kačerovská
Story: Kateřina Kačerovská
Script Editor: Marcela Pittermanová
Producer: BFILM.cz – Peter Badač
Co-producers: Leitwolf Filmproduktion (DE) – Anette Unger, BFILM (SK), Negativ (CZ)
Executive Producer: Pavel Vácha
D.O.P.: Lukáš Teren
Production Design: Henrich Boráros
Costume Design: Tereza Kopecká
Make-up Artist: Helena Bermak
Animation:
Michal Struss, Magdalena Hejzlarová, Martin Búřil, Aleš Baumgartner, Martin Máj, Pavla Dudová, Jan Bohuslav, Zdeněk Durdil, Vojta Sysel, Anna Paděrová
VFX Supervisor:
 Tibor Meliš
Editor: Dana Klempířová
Sound Design: Anders Wasserfall, Richard Muller
Music: André Feldhaus, Carsten Rocker

Cast: Sebastian Pöthe, Josefína Krycnerová, Tobiáš Rímský, Václav Hubka, Johana Horváthová, Kristýna Boková, Ester Geislerová, Vasil Fridrich, Anna Schmidtmajerová, Tomáš Bambušek, Aleš Petráš

PETR OUKROPEC

Petr (1972) was born in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1994 he made his production debut with Saša Gedeon’s feature, Indian Summer. In 1995 he founded Negativ, that has produced more than 40 feature films, that were awarded on many international festivals. In 1999 he won the Czech Lion Award for The Idiot Returns. He is a member of European Film Academy. His long term work with children and non-actors in the theatre “Zmrzlík“ from the village of Těchonice, located in the foothills of Šumava, has gained a wide following and earned acclaim.  He made his directorial debut in 2012 with children’s adventure film, Blue Tiger, which won several international awards. His second film, In Your Dreams, was screened in the Generation 14+ Competition at Berlinale 2016 and was screened in more than 25 countires of the world.

Filmography:

Blue Tiger (feature fiction, 2012)
In Your Dreams (feature fiction, 2016)
Martin and the Magical Forest (feature fiction, 2021)

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CONTACTS

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Producer
BFILM – Peter Badač
peter(at)bfilm.sk

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Festivals
BFILM
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Sales
Attraction Distribution – Xiaojuan Zhou
xiao88(at)attraction.ca