Fabrique Fantastique

Most recently that includes Interstellar Ella, co-produced with Apartment 11 in Canada, and season two of Sir Mouse, co-produced with Avalon films in Ireland.

Ella in the animated series Interstellar Ella is a young girl who lives in space with her friends and family. In each 11-minute episode she goes on an adventure and the audience learns something new about space.

The series won multiple pre-sales deals, a substantial minimum guarantee from distributor Aardman Animation, and a grant from the EU’s Creative Europe programme. This investment allowed Fabrique Fantastique to leverage the Belgian tax shelter system and Screen Flanders funding.

Next up for Fabrique Fantastique is Juul, a magic realist 3D animation feature for young adult and adult audiences. The title character is a 17-year-old girl who performs as an acrobat in her father’s circus. When a terrible accident leaves her locked into her own mind, her father decides to make the girl a living puppet in his freak show. In silent protest at this indignity, and at the loss of her free will, Juul slowly turns to porcelain.

Fabrique Fantastique is the lead producer on this five-country co-production, with support in Belgium coming from Screen Flanders, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund and the Belgian Tax Shelter. Van Gestel directs, from a script by An de Gruyter. The international co-production partners on Juul are Kepler Film (The Netherlands), Mr Miyagi Film (Spain) & Toon2Tango (Germany).

Fabrique Fantastique is currently developing new series concepts, such as Gardener Gavin, for very young kids, and working on a new hybrid feature film called Crash Test Donny.