For creative technologist and screenwriter Jessie Hughes, female-driven animated television wasn’t easy to find growing up.
Aside from the odd exception, she found that most of the shows she preferred featured male leads crafted by male writers.
“All my favourite animated shows that I used to watch, such as Family Guy, American Dad, and South Park, had male leads,” she told If.
“Even Spongebob Squarepants has a male main character.
“When I realised that, I thought, ‘Oh, isn’t this odd?'”
It’s an imbalance Hughes hopes to address with her show Head Above Water, a subversive animated comedy series featuring feminist mermaids and exhausted sirens, being brought to life with the help of Brisbane-based motion studio Breeder.
Set in an underwater metropolis centred around the Department of Justice, the sirens go about their days devouring society’s bad apples, such as misogynists and mansplainers.
The 27-year-old crafted...
Aside from the odd exception, she found that most of the shows she preferred featured male leads crafted by male writers.
“All my favourite animated shows that I used to watch, such as Family Guy, American Dad, and South Park, had male leads,” she told If.
“Even Spongebob Squarepants has a male main character.
“When I realised that, I thought, ‘Oh, isn’t this odd?'”
It’s an imbalance Hughes hopes to address with her show Head Above Water, a subversive animated comedy series featuring feminist mermaids and exhausted sirens, being brought to life with the help of Brisbane-based motion studio Breeder.
Set in an underwater metropolis centred around the Department of Justice, the sirens go about their days devouring society’s bad apples, such as misogynists and mansplainers.
The 27-year-old crafted...
- 6/17/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Paris-based company unveils first details on new slate for Cannes Pre-screenings and Marché du Film.
Charades has boarded sales on Laurent Tirard’s new comedy Oh My Goodness! and plans to launch pre-sales at the upcoming online Cannes Pre-screenings in June and physical Marché du Film in July.
It revolves around five nuns who set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle but they are counting instead on God working in mysterious ways.
The ensemble...
Charades has boarded sales on Laurent Tirard’s new comedy Oh My Goodness! and plans to launch pre-sales at the upcoming online Cannes Pre-screenings in June and physical Marché du Film in July.
It revolves around five nuns who set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle but they are counting instead on God working in mysterious ways.
The ensemble...
- 6/9/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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