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ISLAND BLUE

SZIGETKÉK

Family - Development 2019

After a terrible car crash injures his mother, 9-year-old Valentine discovers the ability to talk to the animals of
a magical island. Together with his newfound friends, Valentine goes in search of a potion to save his mother.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Family, Children's
- Countries
- HUNGARY, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Writer(s)
- Ed CRIPPS, Csaba FARKAS
- Producer(s)
- Anna JANCSÓ (Librecine), Krisztina ENDRÉNYI
- Synopsis
- Island Blue tells the magical adventure of Valentine, a 9-year-old boy whose mother, injured in a car crash, hovers between life and death. The trauma of the accident has revealed Valentine’s ability to talk the language of the animals. Evading his wicked aunt Lavinia, Valentine escapes to a secret island where the animals promise to help him devise a cure. They only need one last secret ingredient from the North Pole, which will turn the potion an unearthly blue. With the help of his newfound friends, Valentine embarks on an extraordinary journey to find the remedy.
  
  Based on a book by The New York Times Book Review Ten Best Books of 2015 frontrunner Magda Szabó.
- Partners & financing
- Financing: Creative Europe (development)
  
  Partners: 198 Films UK