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June 27, 2024
Broadcasters Snap Up K-pop Inspired Tween Live Action Series Gangnam Project
Global broadcasters have snap up K-Pop inspired tween series Gangnam Project (winner of Pulcinella Award during Cartoons on the Bay), as Federation Kids & Family seals the deals.
Paris, France –Premium kids content distributor Federation Kids
& Family (part of media powerhouse Federation Studios) has finalised
multiple sales with key international broadcasters on the new K-pop inspired
tween live action series Gangnam Project, since its recent launch on CBC
Gem in Canada, and CBBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK.
The coming-of-age
dramedy has been snapped up by NRK (Norway), YLE (Finland), TV3 Group
(Baltics), France Télévisions (France) and ABC (Australia).
Meanwhile, Gangnam
Project has also just won a prestigious Pulcinella Award (Best Live Action
and/or Hybrid TV Show) during the recent Cartoons on the Bay. Monica Levy,
Co-Chief of Distribution, Federation Kids & Family said: “Gangnam
Project is an upbeat series that promises a winning combination of drama,
and K-pop dance. Inspired by Sarah
Haasz’s (the show creator) own personal journey as a first-generation immigrant
from Korea living in Canada caught between two countries/cultures, it also
touches on universal themes surrounding the importance of being accepted and
accepting.”
Produced by Pillango
Productions and Aircraft Pictures with co-commissioning broadcasters CBC Kids
and CBBC, Gangnam Project (10 x 30') is set in Korea, and tells the
story of Hannah Shin, a spirited Canadian/Korean teen with dreams of connecting
with her Korean heritage. One summer,
she accepts a job as an English tutor and flies to South Korea to work at an
elite K-pop training school and ends up getting much more than she bargained
for. Hannah is tasked with tutoring one
of the school’s top students Chan-Mi, who is proving quite challenging.
In a bid to win her
and the other students over, Hannah showcases her talent with some impromptu
performances, but instead her talents attract the attention of the school’s
owner which leads to the opportunity to become a K-pop student herself. Along with singing, dancing and Korean
lessons, there’s lots of drama – K-drama, especially when Hannah discovers that
her father had once been a K-pop star himself.
