Our upcoming family detective animation – GORDON & PADDY directed by Linda Hambäck has been selected to compete at prestigious Berlinale Generation’s KPlus competiton!
It’s a story of the forest’s police chief Gordon, who is about to retire and needs to find a new assistant. Paddy, a clever mouse with a great sense of smell seems to be the right candidate. Together they have to solve Gordon’s last case – the mystery of squirrel’s missing nuts.
The film features voices of Stellan Skarsgård (Good Will Hunting, Mamma Mia, Borg/McEnroe), Melinda Kinnaman (Modus) and comedian Felix Herngren (who penned The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared).
Gordon & Paddy is produced by LEE Film’s Linda Hambäck and Lina Jonsson. in coproduction with Film i Väst and SVT, with support from the Swedish Film Institute (commissioners Baker Karim and Calle Marthin), Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Creative Europe, YLE and TriArt Film, which will also releases the film in Scandinavia.
The film is written by Janne Vierth based on Ulf Nilssons and Gitte Spees books about superintendent Gordon already published in Sweden, Germany, UK, Poland, China, Turkey, the Netherlands, South Korea and Russia. The film was animated by Dockhus Animation and music composed by Martin Landquist.