Animal Friends (2013)

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Original title	Djurvännerna
Swedish release title	Djurvännerna
International title	Animal Friends
Working title	Finns i skogen
Partial title	En fågeldag Jag rymmer! Min vän Lage

Director	Eva Lindström
Screenplay	Eva Lindström
Producer	Lisbet Gabrielsson
Music	Halfdan E (as Halfdan E. Nielsen)
Sound Design	Morten Green (as Morten Green)
Animation	David Rylander
Cast	Erik Bolin Frida Westerdahl
Film Commissioner	Johan Bogaeus
Directing Animator	David Rylander

Production Company	Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB
	Bullitt Film ApS
Advance allocations	Det Danske Filminstitut
	Sveriges Television AB
	DR - Danish Broadcast Corp.
	Norsk Rikskringkasting
	YLE Co-Productions
	Nordisk Film & TV Fond
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet

Based on the children’sbooks by Eva Lindström, the AnimalFriends trilogy is connected by the same theme; the main characters’assertion of their own way. AnimalFriends are about longing away, longing for something else. In the firstfilm A Bird Day we follow thechildren's adventurous walk away from home, from light morning to dark night. In I'm Running Away! the board little sheep runs away from the heard. In the third film, My Friend Lage we meet the owl Lage, who left his home in the dark woods to become a city dweller. 

Certificate number	201437
Date	2013-03-11
Classification	Suitable for all audiences
Grounds for decision	En trilogi om små djur som växer och blir redo att lämna sina bon. Filmen saknar inslag som bedöms kunna vara till skada för välbefinnandet hos barn i någon ålder.

Length in minutes	36 min

Festival showing	2013-03-13	Royal	Malmö	Sweden	36 min	BUFF filmfestival, 2013.
Release in Sweden	2013-03-23			Sweden

My Friend Lage (2014)	part of	Animal Friends (2013)
Jag rymmer! (2013)	part of	Animal Friends (2013)
En fågeldag (2013)	part of	Animal Friends (2013)

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Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	DCP

Element type	Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type	MAP

Element type	Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type	ProRes

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	2
Poster title	Min vän lage - Mein Freund Lage

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Jag rymmer! Dialoglista. Av Eva Lindström.
Extent	2 s. + för- och eftertext samt musiklista.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Min vän Lage. Voiceover.
Extent	7 s. + för- och eftertext samt musiklista.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Extent	9 s.
Language	Italienska

Script type	Dialoglista
Extent	8 s.
Language	French

Script type	Dialoglista
Extent	9 s.
Language	English

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Script title	En fågeldag. Storyboard 100518.
Extent	25 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Extent	27 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Extent	26 s.
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Type	Misc.prints
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish