(by Cinzia Conti) (ANSA) - ROME, DEC 18 - For the little ones The stories of Lùpin, the little wolf who dreams of being a hero and comes to life like in a pop-up book, and for pre-adolescents "POV. years ", the daily life of a group of students during the first two years of high school.
And then "The colors of Christmas", "Nina & Olga" from the fantasy of Nicoletta Costa, "2 Happy Farmers".
Rai Ragazzipresents the new production titles at Cartoons on the Bay, the international festival of cross-media animation and children's TV in digital version on the RaiPlay platform.
Luca Milano, director of RaiRagazzi, tells them to ANSA.
"The confinement and the reduction of social activities - he explains - increase the time spent in front of the media and therefore the presence has increased from a point of numbers and also of meaning. It is important that the dedicated television offer is particularly rich. On the one hand we have focused on on the link with reality and contemporaneity: there is a greater demand not to know what is happening but also to be aware of living in a special moment ".
Luca Milano also wants to underline how between Rai Ragazzi and the production houses of cartoons in Italy the work has gone on even in these difficult times so as not to have a schedule of reruns but of new series that keep coming.
"We expect a lot - says the director - from series like" Nina & Olga ", born from the character created and illustrated by Nicoletta Costa and appreciated for over 30 years not only in Italy but also in China, Russia, Spain and the United States, which will be ready by spring 2021. And already on Sunday "Le Storie di Lùpin" is coming, a truly innovative co-production and marina also from a technical point of view by Rai Ragazzi with France Télévision produced by the French Xilam and MagaAnimation of Monza ".
Also coming "2 Happy Farmers", consisting of 52 7-minute episodes currently in production and available from the end of next year: "After talking about the aviation and youtubers. - he says - we also tell the little ones about life in the countryside, seen from the perspective of two bear breeders. In a country like ours, the relationship with the territory becomes more and more important ".
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