After winning at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (Best Animated Series), the Manchester Animation Festival (Best Animated Series), the New York International Film Awards (Best Animated Series), and the Diversity Media Awards (Best Young TV Series), The Sound Collector has recently won the prestigious Banff Rockie Award for Best Animation for Children at the 45th.
The series is an Enanimation/Eagle vs Bat co-production for Rai Kids and ITV, created by Erica Angell and Tom Angell, head written by multiple BAFTA winning Dave Ingham and directed by Chris Tichborne. Narrated by Keira Knightley for the English version and by Carolina Crescentini for the Italian one, The Sound Collector is a stunning combination of beautiful live action, and world class stop frame by the multiple award-winning Mackinnon & Saunders.
The beautiful and heart-warming pre-school series stars a partially deaf little boy with a passion for sounds and nature that spends his days discovering and using new sounds that he finds on his adventures: the blooping and popping of sea anemones, the hissing of the tide drawing back along a pebble beach or even the snores and snuffles of his best friend and pet, Mole.
The tactility of the stop frame is the perfect match for the show’s focus on the tiny nuances of sound – and reminds us to stop and take a moment to indulge in everything that we see and hear around us.
Available as a boxset with all episodes on RaiPlay, The Sound Collector will be broadcast in Italy daily on Rai Yoyo from Sunday 7 July at 11.30 am.
