L'OLÍVIA I EL TERRATRÈMOL INVISIBLE

Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile

Animation

Olivia, 12, her little brother Tim and their mother are forced to leave their apartment and move to a new neighborhood. To shield Tim from this upsetting situation, Olivia makes him believe that this is all part of a film in which he's the main character. Through laughter, tears, magic and the solidarity of new friends, they will find out that they are the heroes of their own life.

Directed by: Irene Iborra Rizo
Written by: Irene Iborra Rizo, Maite Carranza, Júlia Prats
Produced by: Mikel Mas Bilbao, Ramón Alòs, Irene Iborra Rizo, Eduard Puertas Anfruns, Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Hugo Deghilage, Vincent Tavier, Nicolas Burlet, Bernardita Ojeda
Cinematography: Isabel De La Torre
Editing: Julie Brenta
Production Design: Morgan Navarro
Costume Design: Alicia Velasco
Make-Up & Hair: Costanza Baj
Original Score: Laetitia Pansanel-Garric, Charles De Ville
Sound: Charles De Ville
Visual Effects: Sylvain Lorent
Animation: César Díaz
Casting: Núria Rodríguez

Statement of the director:
OLIVIA AND THE INVISIBLE EARTHQUAKE is a full-length stop-motion animated feature film. The story is an adaptation of the book The Movie of Life by Catalan author and screenwriter Maite Carranza.

The target audience for this film comes determined by Olivia (12 years old) and her brother Tim (7 years old), protagonists of Maite Carranza’s book. And not only for them, but for the readers of the novel, which already has five editions in Catalan and two in Spanish (24,500 sold copies approximately). It has also been translated into Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Korean and French.

Despite the main audience being children and youth, there is another type of public that will also enjoy this film. They are the adults that educate children and also the ones that have found themselves in delicate situations that they have had to explain to their children.

After the publication of the book, Maite Carranza has received hundreds of emails from adults thanking her for addressing the issue of child poverty in a respectful and delicate way. One of these emails came from the PAH association (Platform of Affected by the Mortgage), an association and social movement for the right to dignified housing, established in February 2009 in Barcelona and present throughout the Spanish territory. They told the author that the book was a magnificent tool to help break the social taboo that exists around child poverty and evictions. If the book is a useful tool, you can only imagine how a film would be received.

Irene Iborra is the director and scriptwriter of the project. She is a close friend of Carranza’s. After reading the book, she proposed the cinematic adaptation. The duo has already collaborated in different projects: a series of children’s books (Los 7 Cavernícolas, Ed. Planeta) and its adaptation to an animated feature film script (for the Motion Pictures production company).

The next step was to propose the project to the other half of Stop-Motion Citoplasmas, Eduard Puertas, who did not doubt for a moment that stop motion animation would be the best way to create Olivia, Tim and company.

We want to make social animation for children and adults. We believe this is the best way to talk to the adults of the future about how to construct a more equal, fairer society, crossing borders and respecting differences. We hope to do this with a little story that will touch each and every heart, because we have all been children once.

Production:
Cornelius Films
https://corneliusfilms.com/

World Sales:
Pyramide
http://www.pyramidefilms.com/