Quarterly 4 · 2010 - german films

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Another massively charming family entertainment film from Blue
Eyes Fiction, the company that keeps ‘em coming, Yoko is the
story of a cute and mysterious Yeti child who one day suddenly
appears in the tree house belonging to 11-year-old Pia, who has lost
her father.
Yoko has escaped from the nasty big game hunter Thor van Sneider,
who wants to capture and turn him into an international sensation.
But Pia is determined to protect her new-found friend with supernatural
talents and a very special sense of humor.
But the small Yeti from the icy Himalayas is not suited to our climate;
the unusual heat and van Sneider’s equally determined efforts to capture
him begin to take their toll, draining him of his life energy. Pia and
her friends decide to get Yoko home as fast as possible – but van
Sneider has other ideas...
Yoko’s director Franziska Buch was born in Stuttgart and learn -
ed her craft at Munich’s University of Television & Film, after which
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she has become a recognized expert in making high-quality entertainment,
including such audience and critics’ hits as Bibi Blocksberg und
das Geheimnis der blauen Eulen (2004), which took the main award at
children’s film festivals in Chicago, Moscow, Bombay and the Czech
Republic.
Blue Eyes Fiction was founded in 2003. The company’s creative en -
gine is Corinna Mehner, who states: “Our intention is to produce
high-quality projects for an international audience.” Just one sample
from the company’s filmography demonstrates how much she has
succeeded to date: Hexe Lilli – der Drache und das magische Buch
(2008), which proved a huge German domestic success and also sold
around the world. A sequel, Hexe Lilli – die Reise nach Mandolan (also
from the gifted pen of Yoko’s writer, the prolific children’s author
KNISTER) will be released early next year. A third Hexe Lilli film is
currently in pre-production.
Yoko is getting a major studio release through Sony Pictures and is
being sold worldwide by CINEPOOL – “Not from bad parents”, as
they say in German!
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