Zarafa
- Studio
- Prima Linéa Productions, Pathe Production, France 3 Cinema, Chaocorp, Scope Pictures
- Distributor
- Pathe, Pathe International
Synopsis
Under a monkey-bread tree in the heart of Africa, children listen to a wise old man who tells them the story of young Maki, who runs away from a slave trader and makes friends with a giraffe named Zarafa. Shortly afterward, the giraffe is caught; he is to be given to the French king as a gift. Maki refuses to let this happen. He promises the giraffe's mother that he will bring Zarafa back to her. Accompanied by a desert prince named Hassan and a balloonist named Malaterre, Maki undertakes an adventurous trip by balloon over the Mediterranean and the snow-capped Alps to Paris, where the arrival of the first giraffe on the European continent is a great sensation. It soon transpires that Zarafa doesn't belong in the city. Determined to keep his promise, Maki tries to find a way to save Zarafa.
Characters
Maki, Hassan, Malaterre, Le vieux sage, Charles X, Bouboulina, Mahmoud, Zarafa adulte, Moreno, Saint-Hilaire, Pacha
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie
Producing
- Producer
- Valerie Schermann, Christophe Jankovic
Writing
Animation
Voices
- Voice
- Max Renaudin (Maki), Simon Abkarian (Hassan), François-Xavier Demaison (Malaterre), Vernon Dobtcheff (Le vieux sage), Roger Dumas (Charles X), Ronit Elkabetz (Bouboulina), Mohamed Fellag (Mahmoud), Déborah François (Zarafa adulte), Thierry Frémont (Moreno), Philippe Morier-Genoud (Saint-Hilaire), Mostéfa Stiti (Pacha), Clara Quilichini
Music
- Music
- Laurent Perez del Mar
Editing
- Editor
- Sophie Reine
- Assistant Editor
- Zaghini Flora
Crew
- Production Manager
- Olivier Bizet
- Production Manager (Belgium)
- Adriana Piasek-Wanski
- Post-Production Manager
- Adriana Piasek-Wanski
- Sound Studio Manager
- Bruno Seznec
- Sound Supervisor
- Bruno Seznec
- Supervising Sound Editor
- Sebastien Marquilly
- Sound Editor
- Alexandre Fleurant
- Sound Designer
- Sebastien Marquilly
- Sound Re-Recording Mixers
- Fabien Devillers, Nils Fauth
- Sound Engineer
- Georgi Hristovski
- Digital Compositor
- Bruno Ghigou
- Production Assistant
- Cyril Jourdan
- Graphic Creation
- Jean-Christophe Lie
- Set Designer
- Igor David
- Colorist
- Christine Szymkowiak
- Assistant Executive Music Producer
- Jaco Zijlstra
- Music Supervisors
- Thomas Jamois, Clement Souchier, Jeanne Trellu
- Protools Engineer
- Boban Apostolov
Companies and other credits
- Animator: Animation Director: Yoshimichi Tamura
- Animator: Lead Animators: Bolhem Bouchiba
- Animator: Assistant Animators: Nawell Sdiri
- Animator: Layout Supervisor: Jean-Luc Serrano
- Animator: Senior Layout Artist: Marec Fritzinger
- Music Mixed At: Dada Studios
Production notes
Release date is that of screening at L'Alpe-d'Huez Film Festival; general release dates were February 8, 2012 in France and February 15, 2012 in Belgium.
Writer-director Remi Bezancon's animation feature debut.
Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie's picturesque animation film is based on a true story: in 1827, the first giraffe in Paris (her name was Zarafa) did indeed receive a rapturous reception.
Writer-director Remi Bezancon's animation feature debut.
Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie's picturesque animation film is based on a true story: in 1827, the first giraffe in Paris (her name was Zarafa) did indeed receive a rapturous reception.
Awards
Nominee, Annie Award, Directing in an Animated Feature Production, Remi Bezancon and Jean-Christophe Lie, 2013