“Miffy the Movie” wins at Dutch Cinekid Festival

The children’s animation feature film “Miffy the Movie” (Original title: nijntje de film), based on the successful and beloved children’s books of Dick Bruna, has won the Cinekid Lion Jury Prize for best Dutch children’s film at this year’s Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam. The feature film, directed by Hans Perk and scripted by Fine Trossèl and James Still, was rewarded with this coveted trophy and a prize money of € 7,500. “Miffy the movie” won a Golden Film award for more than 100,000 visitors earlier this year and registered a total of about 175,000 admissions in The Netherlands, grossing about 1.2 million Euro boxoffice.

The 2013 Cinekid audience and jury awards, in the categories film, television and new media, were presented on Friday 25 October 2013 during the awards ceremony at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.

“Miffy the Movie” was produced by Telescreen Filmproducties, a subsidiary of the German m4e Group, in coproduction with A.Film Production, KRO television and Mercis. The film was made possible also thanks to the support of the Dutch CoBO Fund, The Dutch Film Fund, MEDIA for development and i2i. Warner Bros. Pictures distributes the movie in The Netherlands. The film has been sold to various territories, such as UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Portugal, Latin America, Middle East any many others.