Approved For Adoption

Approved For Adoption

35 mm / DCP / HD - 2012 - France/Belgium - 71 min - Color - Animation


Approved For Adoption

Original title: Couleur de peau: Miel

A film by Jung & Laurent Boileau

Jung. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone in the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world. Jung decided to return for the first time in South Korea, in order to breathe the air of his home country, tread the land of his ancestors, and maybe find traces of his biological mother. This trip of reconciliation with his roots and with himself leads our character to recall – in animation – the child he once was and the winding path that made him grow up. Approved for adoption is a very original animation film for an original topic. The characters were developed and created in 3D, the landscapes and decorations are in 2D and the drawings are originally made by Jung. The film deals with adoption issues with tenderness and humor.

Original language: French
Produced by: Mosaique Films – Artemis Productions – France 3 Cinéma

Festivals:
Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy 2012
Filmfest Hamburg 2012
13ª Festa do Cinema Francês 2012
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Festival do Rio) 2012
Montréal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2012
Abu Dhabi Middle East International Film Festival 2012
CPH DOX Copenhagen 2012
Bradford Animation Festival 2012
Tallinn Black Night Films Festival 2012
50th Gijón International Film Festival 2012
43rd International Film Festival of India- Goa 2012
Torino Film Festival 2012
Goteborg International Film Festival 2013
Fajr Intl Film Festival 2013
European Film Festival 2013
Festival de films pour enfants de Montréal 2013
Monstra Film Festival, Portugal 2013
Buff Film Festival, Sweden 2013
Leeds Young Film Festival 2013
Future Film Festival in Bologna 2013
STOCKHOLM FILMFESTIVAL JUNIOR 2013
Beijing International Film Festival 2013
Skopje film festival 2013
The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2013
New Taipei City Film Festival 2013
Docs Barcelona Festival 2013
ANIMAFEST, Zagreb 2013
Sydney International Film Festival 2013
Kecskemét Animation Film Festival, Hungary 2013
GALWAY FILM FLEADH 2013
Umbria Film Festival, Italy 2013
Melbourne International Film Festival 2013
Animix Film Festival, Israel 2013
Korean Film Festival in Australia 2013
Buster Film Festival, Danemark 2013
World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria 2013
The Animage - International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Brazil 2013
CNEX Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan 2013
Docartoon Film Festival, Italy 2013
Animacao Film Festival, China 2013
Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia 2013
ReAnimania Yerevan International Animation Film Festival, Armenia 2013
Festival du Film Francophone Tübingen,ˡ Stuttgart 2013
Pisaf Film Festival, South Korea 2013
Sydney Intercultural Film Festival 2013
Cinemagic Film Festival, uk 2013
International Young Audience Film Festival ALE KINO!, Poland 2013
Rencontres Internationales de Vincennes, France 2013
Week-End International du Film de Würzburg, Germany 2014
The 7th International Animated Film Festival Poland 2014

Awards:
Audience Award, Annecy, Official Selection, France 2012
UNICEF Award, Annecy, Official Selection, France 2012
Special Mention, Rencontres Internationales de Vincennes - Prix Henri Langlois, France 2013
Great Award of Montreal and the INIS Award, FIFEM, Canada 2013
Rencontres Internationales de Vincennes - Prix Henri Langlois 2013

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Jung & Laurent Boileau

Jung was born on December 2nd, 1965 in Seoul, in South Korea. Adopted by a Belgian family in 1971, he adopts the name of Jung Henin. He follows studies of Traditional Humanities (Latin and Mathematics) at the Athénée Royal of Rixensart, before attending one year, in 1985, the Saint-Luc workshop of Brussels. He then studies at the academy of the Art schools of Brussels, in Illustration section. In parallel, he makes a short passage in the animated cartoon, in Cambre. He illustrate some short articles in Spirou and Tintin. In 1991, Jung publishes the first of the four volumes of Yasuda, at Hélyode-Lefranc. In 1997, in collaboration with Martin Ryelandt, he directs Young girl and the Wind, with the Delcourt editions. In 2006, always in collaboration with Jee-Yun, he publishes Okiya, a Japanese erotic tale. He has just published in the editions Delcourt Kyoteru a history on the world of the ninja children and Skin color: honey, an autobiographical account in black and white for the editions Soleil
Laurent Boileau, 43 years, worked for 10 years as chief operator and then as chief editor on many documentaries (France 2, France 3, France 5, Canal +, Planet ...). In 1999, he started directing. He participated in the series Issues in Education, produced by Mosaic Films for France 5. In 2002 and 2003, he directed a college like no other planet for future on an innovative college in Lyon. His passion for comics and more generally on the graphic arts led him to make several films about the 9th art: Artisans of the imagination (France 3, 2004), Spirou, a renaissance (TLM, 2004), (France 5, RTBF, 2005), the Horses of paper (Equidia, 2006), Sokal, the art of fine (France 3, 2007), Poland Marzi (TV Rennes 35, 2009). On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he developed an animated series for RTBF and curiosphere.tv. Alongside his work as a director, he has chronicled the outputs of BD on the news site actuabd.com and animated comics site of France Televisions.

Jung & Laurent Boileau


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