MONA MONARCH, AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A BUTTERFLY

MONA MONARCH, AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A BUTTERFLY – Multimedia

A modern story where all the butterflies of this world come together.

Feature film (75’ min) / TV Special (12’ min),
possible development for series.
Target Group: 6-8, Family
Genre: 2D Animation, Fairy Tale, Adventure
Original Idea & Literary authors: Lilia Paul, Tatiana Kiseleva
Treatment / Feature film authors: Lilia Paul, Mark Hammond
Directors: TBA
Other platforms: Children’s picture book, App about butterflies
Country of production: Germany

SYNOPSIS

Mona, the little butterfly leads a happy life with her foster parents and friends. She learns to walk and savor plants, makes her first attempts to fly and graduates from “Fly-high” school. But one day her family announces bad news. They all have to leave to survive the cold. The great migration begins… Mona has to go through fears of height, survive the climate change, fight against the evil and find her roots.

This butterfly story is dedicated to all children who had to leave their homes, go through the Great Migration and flee the war.  The characters are humanized and the story unveils the issues of climate change, migration, conflicts between generations, rebellion of adolescence and the challenge of growing up.

ABOUT AUTHORS

Lilia P. Schneider

AUTHOR / DIRECTOR

Lilia Schneider is a producer, author, director and IP creator, specialized in kids’ content and film d’auteur. She graduated from Strasbourg University, literature & film department and trained at cultural TV channel ARTE G.E.I.E. She wrote the story about Butterfly Migration in tribute to Migration of Children due to war and climate situations.

Tatiana Kiseleva

GRAPHICAL AUTHOR / ART DESIGNER

As 2D artist, creative director and animator Tatiana has worked on more than 40 films including artistic shorts, TV series and feature films in Russia. Besides working in animation, she writes and illustrates children’s books, teaches master classes on classical animation and coaches groups of young emerging animators. She received various international awards for best direction, animation, and musical feeling and choreography in classical hand-drawn animation.

Mark Hammond

AUTHOR

Since attending NYU Film School, Mark Hammond has worked as a director, producer and writer of films for the past 30 years. After a decade in broadcast television he co-produced the Jamaican feature One Love, a romantic drama starring Bob Marley’s son, Ky-Mani Marley and Idris Elba, and produced the multiple award-winning short films Driving Fish and Waves. As director, he wrote and helmed Stolen Song for Sony, and Johnny Was, a UK/Irish/Danish co-production starring Vinnie Jones, Samantha Mumba and Patrick Bergin. He also produced L’Amour Caché, a French-language feature starring Isabelle Huppert, Mélanie Laurent and Greta Scacchi that premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and in 2017 he directed The Traitor, a 1971-set political thriller filmed on location in Ukraine, that premiered at the Odessa International Film Festival. Based in Rome since 2018, Mr. Hammond currently oversees the creative writing teams working with Cristaldi Pics as head of fiction, and as a hands-on writer & script editor he also develops new material for the company.