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| Industry | Animation |
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| Genre | Traditional and CGI Animation |
| Founded | 1 August 1988 (1988-08-01) |
| Founder | Stefan Fjeldmark
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| Headquarters | Dannebrogsgade 1,, |
| Website | afilm |
A. Film Production A/S (previously A. Film A/S, A. Film ApS and A. Film I/S) is aDanishanimation studio and production company currently based inCopenhagen,Denmark. Affiliated to the Copenhagen studio areA. Film Estonia located inEstonia andA. Film L.A., Inc. is in Southern California. It producestraditional andCGI animation for feature films, television, advertising and games. The studio's notable original features includeCheckered Ninja,Help! I'm a Fish,Jungledyret Hugo andTerkel in Trouble.[1] A pig serves as a mascot for said company.
The studio was founded on 1 August 1988 by animators Stefan Fjeldmark,Karsten Kiilerich, Jørgen Lerdam andHans Perk and producer Anders Mastrup[2] who met while working on the 1986 filmValhalla based on the Danishcomics of the same name, and was originally headquartered atTagensvej 85 in Copenhagen. In 1995, the Danish media corporationEgmont purchased 50% of A. Film and moved A. Film under the umbrella of its film division,Nordisk Film. Stefan Fjeldmark left A. Film in 2008 to pursue a career in live-action. Several animators who began their careers at A. Film became well established at the Disney and DreamWorks studios. Since about 1995, the company's logo is a grinning pig, designed by Finn Skovgaard.
In 2010, A. Film A/S split into two companies: A. Film Production A/S which continues independent film production and is now located atDannebrogsgade 1 in Copenhagen, and A. Film A/S under Nordisk Film which manages the rights of the earlier productions. The A. Film group of companies, with A. Film Production A/S as its base, includes the independent studios A. Film Eesti inTallinn, Estonia (est. 1994) and A. Film L.A., Inc. inLos Angeles, California (est. 2008). InBerlin, Germany, A. Film used to be part of the studio Friendly Fritz. It previously owned studios inRiga,Latvia (2002–2010) andMunich, Germany (2006–2009).The A. Film companies also worked as a subcontractor on 28 films includingFernGully: The Last Rainforest,Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina,Asterix Conquers America,The Little Punker,The Secret Weapon,Once Upon a Forest,Felidae,Balto,The Iron Giant,The Princess and the Goblin (1993),Tarzan II,Curious George,The Pebble and the Penguin,A Troll in Central Park,All Dogs Go To Heaven 2,Quest for Camelot andEight Crazy Nights. In 2007, A. Film A/S provided services on Disney's Goofy:How to Hook Up Your Home Theater.
A. Film Production A/S has recently released several feature films includingNiko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble,Albert,Alfie Atkins: Hocus Pocus and the stop-motion filmMiffy the Movie.
Note: This section lists films produced by the company.