Mascha Halberstad’s Oink was one of our favorite animated features from 2022, and we’re thrilled her next film, Fox and Hare Save the Forest, is just around the corner.
Today, its producers pitched their in-production feature at Cartoon Movie, one of Europe’s key pitching and co-production events. For those who couldn’t make it to the French event in person, we’ve got an exclusive first-look video that includes several clips from the film and Halberstad discussing its origins and key themes.
The film’s screenplay was adapted by Fabie Hulsebos from the Vos en Haas en de Bosbaas book series from author Sylvia VandenHeede and illustrator Thé Tjong-Khing. Halbersted and Dutch production company Submarine previously adapted the property as an animated series in 2018. After recording the voice actors’ performances for that show, they felt the characters were so well developed that they had to make a movie as well.