The preschool series of 5 six minute episodes is targeted at children ages three to six. It was filmed with a diverse range of first grade students in Saskatoon at seven local schools: Brunskill, College Park, Holliston, John Lake, Sutherland and WP Bate. Each episode of Quizzine shows children as they react to hints and clues as they figure out the identity of a fruit or vegetable. A tasty snack is revealed when they get it. This season Quizzine takes real children into the kitchen where they make and enjoy the snacks with the help of the show’s host.

www.citytv.com/quizzine

Producer and director Tim Tyler hopes to make it fun and engaging for children to try healthy, natural foods. He explains “Let’s get kids beyond packaged snacks. Let’s look at what we need to do to establish healthy eating habits, to get kids excited by simple, healthy, inexpensive food. With Quizzine, parents and children can go on the website together, watch episodes, get inspired by the foods they see, gather the fruits and vegetables they need, and then make a tasty snack together. It’s a complete experience that develops culinary diversity in the whole family. If we can inspire even one child to try a kiwi or another new food, I’ll consider Quizzine a success.”

Quizzine season 2 will air on City in Saskatchewan (via SaskTel, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct, Access Communications and Bell TV) beginning in November, with a marathon of all new episodes on Saturday November 19th at 10am and repeating again at 12pm CST. Individual Episodes can be seen daily at 9:20 am, right after Paw Patrol, until the end of November. Quizzine is also be available for online viewing at www.citytv.com/quizzine

ABOUT CHESHIRE SMILE: Cheshire Smile Animation Inc is a Saskatoon-based company with a mission to entertain and inspire children through the creation of seasonal and pre-school branded entertainment. Cheshire specializes in animation management and production services for the development and creation of animated content for broadcast television and interactive media. Cheshire Smile Animation Inc. developed and produced Space Stretch (2013 & 2014) and The Side Show Christmas (2008) which was broadcast on TELETOON Canada Inc. and in France on Canal+.

http://www.cheshiresmile.com/

RESOURCES

Electronic Press Kit available Upon Request.

Website: http://www.quizzine.ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Quizzine.ca?fref=ts

Series II financial participants include: City Saskatchewan, Creative Saskatchewan, the Canada Media Fund, and Heritage Canada

For media requests please contact:

Tim Tyler, Executive Producer 306.229.2567 tim@cheshiresmile.com

A series of 4 short animation created for Saskatoon’s MGM Communications.

Four short animated digital display sign ads featuring Red created for the SaskTel and Marketing Den for the SaskTel Superboard in Regina. A digital sign combined with a billboard advertising.

Smoking Laws in Saskatchewan have changed. Cheshire Smile Animation helps to get the message out with this series of two 15 second banner ads animated for Brown Communications Group and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health.

An advertising campaign for Cineplex theatrical screens. animated by Cheshire Smile Animation Inc. for SaskTel and Marketing Den in the Fall of 2010.

Animation Direction: Tim Tyler
Audio Post: GlennRoss Studios

1 x 48 Minute Animated Genre: Family / Animation / Adventure / Christmas

Joy, an intrepid penguin, journeys to the North Pole to learn the secret of flight from Santa and his reindeer.  Along the way she must foil SKY PIRATES, three bumbling elves-gone-wrong, bent on destroying Christmas.

It’s like: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer meets Happy Feet.

JOY is both an optimist and a dreamer.  She confesses to her only friend BLIZZ that she longs to soar in the sky like other birds.  But when Blizz accidentally reveals her secret to several other penguins, she is ridiculed and ostracized.  Humiliated, Joy embarks on a quest to the North Pole, where she hopes to learn the secret of flight from Santa and his Reindeer, cleverly hitching a ride on a plane carrying kids’ Christmas letters to the North Pole.

Blizz, shaken by guilt at revealing Joy’s secret, convinces the penguins who made fun of Joy to help him find her and bring her back home.  Meanwhile Joy’s plan is working: she is hidden away safely in a crate full of letters headed to the North Pole, when suddenly it is hijacked by three mysterious thieves.

At the South Pole, Blizz leads the grumbling penguins due north, only 11, 486 miles to go!  As the group complains about their impossible journey, Blizz finds a camp of polar weather scientists preparing to move to the North Pole where winter has just begun.  He convinces the other penguin to stow away among scientific equipment about to be shipped to the North Pole.

Joy discovers that the thieves who have stolen all of Santa’s letters are Sky Pirates: FINCH, HORRACE and TINSEL, three bumbling, disgruntled, disgraced elves, fired from Santa’s workshop for making unsafe toys.  They have vowed revenge and are determined to destroy Santa’s reputation by putting an end to Christmas.  Without the children’s Christmas wish letters, Santa won’t have a clue which presents to make or deliver.  Joy outwits the Sky Pirates and escapes with the letters and delivers them to Santa’s workshop.  As a reward, Santa shares the secret of flight, and Joy soars triumphantly among the clouds for the first time.  On her return, she finds the workshop in chaos. The Sky Pirates have struck back, kidnapping the reindeer.  Joy’s despair turns to shock when she finds Blizz and the other penguins trudging toward her.

To save Christmas, Joy must teach Blizz and the other penguins to fly, lead Santa’s round the world flight and reconcile some disgruntled elves with their old boss.  Impossible tasks yes, but not for Joy, the Christmas Penguin, especially when she discovers…

… that being a little different can make all the difference in the world.

For more information about this show,

contact: Tim Tyler – Producer

306.229.2567 tim@cheshiresmile.com

http://www.cheshiresmile.com

2010 Cheshire Smile Animation Inc.

All Rights Reserved

Not only was it a highly inspirational, it was very informative. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in taking their first significant steps on this journey.

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