Mexico City, Mexico on April 30, 2013

The Mexican film El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza, an Átomo Films and Peyote Films production was selected to be presented at the Annecy Festival 2013 this coming month of June.

The prestigious Annecy Festival is the most important animation fesival worldwide, presenting the most representative animated films since 1960. The Festival has taken place in Annecy, France since it’s foundation.

The feature film directed by Alejandro Lozano, produced by Fernando de Fuentes, José C. Garcia de Letona, Lynn Fainchtein and Paco Arriagada, based on the characters of the popular comic strip created by Jis and Trino, becomes the first Mexican animated film to be presented in the history of such festival.

El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza was selected amongst more than 80 films in order to be part of the program. Japan, U.S.A., Canada, Russia, Switzerland and France will also be present in such a prestigious festival.

The audience will be able to enjoy a unique, irreverent, satiric, horny and tremendous fun film which features the animation direction of Andrés Couturier (“Magos y Gigantes” and “Kung Fu Magoo”) and the art direction of Rafael González Trujano besides the voices of great actors such as Daniel Giménez Cacho, Regina Orozco, Héctor Jiménez, José Ma. Yazpik, Jesús Ochoa, Joaquín Cosío, Demián, Bruno y Odiseo Bichir, Andrés Bustamante and Guillermo del Toro as well.

Mexico City, Mexico on April 12, 2013

Last night, El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza, a film produced by Átomo Films and Peyote Films was the winner as the best animated film at the CANACINE awards 2013.

The film adaptation of the popular comic strip created by the cartoonists Jis and Trino and directed by Alejandro Lozano, stars the voices of Daniel Giménez Cacho, Regina Orozco, Héctor Jiménez, José Ma. Yazpik, Jesús Ochoa, Joaquín Cosío, Demián, Bruno y Odiseo Bichir, Irene Azuela, Cecilia Suarez, Cheech Marin, Julieta Venegas, Dolores Heredia, Rocío Verdejo, Andrés Bustamante and Guillermo del Toro as well.

The script was written by Augusto Mendoza, the animation was directed by Andrés Couturier, the art direction was in charge of Rafael González Trujano and the productores Fernando de Fuentes S., José Carlos García de Letona, Paco Arriagada and Lynn Fainchtein, also in charge of the film’s soundtrack production together with Tito Fuentes (Molotov) and Camilo Froideval.

El Santos vs La Tetona Mendoza, a unique, irreverent, satiric, horny and tremendously fun film.

Mexico City, Mexico on January 10, 2013 VODKA, children's content and entertaining branches producer, has closed an agreement with ÁNIMA ESTUDIOS for co-producing its’ new multiplatform project, BUGSTED. ÁNIMA ESTUDIOS, created in 2002, is the most important studio in Latin America. Producer of the animated series "El Chavo", which is currently the most successful animated series in Latin America. “Don Gato y su Pandilla” (Top Cat: The Movie), which has broken several box office records and has been released in more than 25 countries, highlights amongst its’ most recent feature films. Meanwhile, TELEVISA, world leading media and content company in Spanish, has announced last year its’ participation in this project as co-producer and licensing agent in Mexico. BUGSTED, aimed for an audience between 8 and 11 years old, is a TV miniseries (13x1’), a platform app-game for Iphone, Ipad and Android a well as for the series characters collectible toys. The simultaneous released is expected by the last quarter of 2013. Humor, bangs, irreverence… BUGSTED is nothing but entertainment. Bugsted tells the crazy feats of the Bugsteds’, some evolved mundane bugs from the Moon that accidentally arrived to Planet Earth. Now, their only mission is to find out their way home. The main problem, is that it is not so easy to find their way back for they imagine to see their home everywhere: in a cars’ headlight, a disco ball … their always crazy and frustrated attempts for going back home turn out this miniseries and app- game in tiny pills full with shameless laughing. In full production, Vodka is still negotiating with different European and US TV channels. After its’ success with JELLY JAMM, currently being transmitted in 150 countries and dubbed into 18 languages, they continue to an international consolidation. Fort more information: Vodka Capital S.L Elena Catalán elena.catalan@vodkatalent.com C/ Pantoja nº6 Madrid 28002 91 001 17 10 Editorials: VODKA: Vodka is a company founded in 2008 by Víctor M. López, Steven J. Posner, David Cantolla and Juan Perea, dedicated to creating, financing, directing and managing audiovisual contents capable of turning into internartional entertainment branches. Besides Bugsted and Jelly Jamm, Vodka is immersed in the development of “Pirata & Capitano”, series intented to a preschool audience and the childrens’ contest “Jelly Challnege”. destinada a un público preescolar y el concurso infantil Jelly Challenge. ANIMA ESTUDIOS: Founded in 2002, Ánima Estudios is the studio with more animated films produced and released in Latin America, the Mexican studio with more episodes produced for TV and the most important producer in 2011 with two films posted in the top chart of most successful movies in Mexico. Besides being Ánima’s first feature film "Magos y Gigantes" (Wizards and Giants) is the first animated film in México after more tan 30 years and the first feature film digitally animated in Latin America. "Imaginum", "El Agente 00P2", "AAA: La Película" and "Kung Fu Magoo" are amongst Anima’s film projects. In 2011 "Don Gato y su Pandilla" and "La Leyenda de la Llorona", were released in movie theaters breaking all box office and attendance records. Nowadays and since 2006, Ánima is producing the animated TV series "El Chavo", which has a great success in Latin America. They are also working out the TV which was internationally released earlier this year.