2007 Awards of Excellence Nominations

Mercury Filmworks Celebrates Eight 2007 Awards of Excellence Nominations

Break out the bubbles—bubblegum, that is! Canadian production company Mercury Filmworks is celebrating its contributions to its clients’ eight nominations from the Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) for terrific, kid-friendly productions. The studio is thrilled to be associated with productions and congratulates its clients and partners.

The nominees include:

All Genres:  3:

Wilbur (produced by Mercury Filmworks for Wilbur Entertainment Canada), about an enthusiastic, loveable and funny eight-year-old calf, who is the star of a preschool series designed to promote emergent literacy and nurture a love of reading in children aged two to five;

All Genres:  Teens:

Dark Oracle II (animation design and production by Mercury Filmworks for Shaftesbury Films), which combines live-action and animation in a fantastic adventure about 15-year-old twins who must struggle to understand the power of a suspicious comic book;

Animation: 3 – 5:

Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs (preproduction by Mercury Filmworks for CCI Entertainment), a charming animated series featuring a five-year-old boy who is transported to an imaginary world by jumping into his bucket of toy dinosaurs; Gerald McBoing Boing (production by Mercury Filmworks for Cookie Jar Entertainment), a joyful animated series that follows young Gerald McCloy, a six-year old boy who doesn’t speak words, but who is profoundly articulate in the “language” of sounds—from HONKS and HOOTS to SPLATS and TOOTS;

Animation:  6 – 8:

Grossology (animation by Mercury Filmworks for Nelvana), which follows the exciting and funny animated adventures of a brother-and-sister crime-fighting team, Ty and Abby Archer, who work for the secret government department of Grossology to stop the world’s filthiest criminals;

Animation: 9 – 14: 

Ruby Gloom (animation by Mercury Filmworks for Nelvana), a delightfully spooky animated series about a little girl who lives in a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of Gloomsville; 6Teen (animation by Mercury Filmworks for Nelvana), a contemporary animated teen comedy set in a huge shopping mall, following an ensemble cast of six sixteen-year-old friends as they try to make it through their first part-time jobs; and Weird Years (produced by Mercury Filmworks for Lenz Entertainment), an engaging animated comedy about the oddball Dorkovitch family, which must deal with life and transition in North America, which they find very strange imdeed!

The winners will be announced on May 31, 2007, at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, when ACT honours Canada’s top English-language children’s and youth programs at the 2007 Awards of Excellence Gala.