PARIS, FRANCE – Premium kids content distributor Federation Kids & Family, its sister production company Cottonwood Media and leading European kids entertainment company Planeta Junior are delighted to announced a new partnership to develop, distribute and license premium kids and family programs worldwide.
The multi-year deal will see Federation Kids & Family, Cottonwood Media and Planeta Junior pool their considerable economic, production, licensing and distribution resources to target, produce and exploit high quality programming worldwide, and across all platforms. Cottonwood Media and Planeta Junior will develop and produce new content, while distribution and ancillary rights will be jointly exploited by Federation Kids & Family and Planeta Junior.
The powerful alliance kicks off with SQUISH (52 x 11) produced by Cottonwood Media and Gulli (France). SQUISH is a hilarious 2D series for 6-11 year olds featuring the genuinely original world of an amoeba looking to survive life in the cutthroat world of single cell organisms…not to mention school! The series is based on The New York Times best-selling graphic novels by JENNIFER HOLM and Eisner Award-winning creator MATTHEW HOLM. Published by Random House Children’s Books, the books have sold a whopping one million+ books, with new books planned yearly.