LevelK Boards ‘Betty Balloon,’ From Puk Grasten, a Cartoon Movie Title

An early lift-off has already been secured for Puk Grasten’s “Betty Balloon,” as the Copenhagen-based worldwide sales and aggregation home LevelK has secured worldwide rights to imminent pre-school animated feature and TV sequence.

The settlement, brokered between LevelK CEO Tine Klint and the movie’s main producer Regner Grasten, was reached just ahead of the project’s work-in-progress presentation at Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux, LevelK told Variety. 

A theatrical release of the animated feature is scheduled for October in Denmark, with Danish public broadcaster TV2 set to premiere the sequence.

A Danish co-production between Regner Grasten Filmproduktion and A. Film Production, “Betty Balloon” follows a fashionable household who just occur to be… balloons. 

At the centre of the story is Betty, a artistic and imaginative four-year-old. Life’s turned the other way up when a cactus household strikes in next door. The Balloon household (Mom, Dad, and Betty’s tremendous tweenie big brother Bobby) must study to attach with their new neighbours. But in “Betty Balloon”, it’s the youngsters who lead the method, as Betty shortly turns into best buddies with four-year-old Kaj Cactus, proving that curiosity and openness can bridge even the prickliest divides. In this colourful universe, it’s the youngsters who present the grown-ups find out how to join.

“In ‘Betty Balloon,’ the unknown is not dangerous,” explained director Puk Grasten, who also wrote the story and tailored it for the big display screen.  “It is an invitation to open up. The film [as well as the series] celebrates openness, imagination and emotional honesty,” in addition to creativity and curiosity in a smooth 2D laptop animation model that will certainly enchantment to the pre-school viewers. 

A European Film College/EICAR/NYU Tisch alum, Grasten obtained the Danish Arts Foundation’s Award for Outstanding Cinematic Work and the Carl Th. Dreyer Award for Visual Storytelling for her debut feature “37.” “Betty Balloon” is her third feature movie, and her first enterprise into animation. 

A female-driven enjoyable, cosy adventure, “Betty Balloon” is also extremely related today, inviting youngsters and fogeys to openness and acceptance by way of the unlikely friendship between a balloon and a cactus. Values that each pre-schoolers and adults can relate to, as producer Regner Grasten underlines. “This dynamic stands out from more traditional family set-ups seen in shows like ‘Peppa Pig’ and ‘Bluey,’ offering an alternative vision of community and empathy.” 

“Teaching through entertainment is indeed important”, added LevelK CEO Tine Klint, “and as Betty Balloon and Kaj Cactus have to navigate the challenges of living next to each other, becoming friends, and simply being who they are. Their creative minds make the journey fun.” 

That’s an method that suits completely with LevelK values and ambitions. A few weeks in the past in Berlin, the company introduced “Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays” (Generation Kplus), “Dust” (main competitors) in addition to such titles as “Chasing Millions” and the animated feature “Mumbo Jumbo”, an A. Film Production project.

Regner Grasten Filmproduktion, one in every of Denmark’s largest manufacturing corporations, boasts a catalogue of 45 movies totalling more than 14 million cinema admissions to this point. The company also produced the hit TV Christmas sequence “The Crumbs’ Christmas” (Krummernes Jul, 1996) and “The Mortensen Brothers’ Christmas” (Brødrene Mortensens Jul, 1998) for TV2 Denmark, and a number of other of the company’s productions have been offered worldwide. 

Besides the feature and the TV sequence, development is also underway on “Betty Balloon” books and merchandising traces, strengthening this modern and heartfelt IP in the making.