The Prince’s Voyage is a series of adventures that promotes friendship between the generations, the need for tolerance of others and the desire to acknowledge what binds monkeys (and people) together rather than what tears them apart.
An old monkey Prince runs aground on an unknown shore. Injured and lost, he is found by 12 year-old Tom, and taken in by his parents, a couple of scientists who were banished from their community because they believe in the existence of other monkey civilisations. With Tom's help, the Prince discovers a society he knows nothing about, while Tom’s parents decide to use him to prove that their theory was indeed correct...
Festivals
Annecy Festival 2019 - Honorary Crystal for Jean-François Laguionie
Locarno FF 2019 - Fuori concorsi
BFI London 2019 – Family
Festa do Cinema Francês 2019
Animest IFF 2019 - Out of Competition
Taichung IFF 2019
Chicago IFF 2019
Cinemagic FF 2019
Göteborg FF Prisma 2019
Big Cartoon Festival 2019
Trieste Science & Fiction Festival 2019 - nominated Melies d'Argent Award
Panorama of European Films in Cairo 2019
GangNeung IFF 2019
Seville European FF 2019 - New Waves / Cinephiles of the Future
Mar del Plata 2019
Anilogue IAF 2019 – Competition
Festival du Film Français de Hong Kong 2019
Jean-François Laguionie
Jean-François Laguionie was born on October 4, 1939 in Besançon, France. Introduced to animation by Paul Grimault, whose workshop he shared for ten years, Jean-François Laguionie launched his career with a promising future ahead of him. This was confirmed by his first short films that he directed, including Rowing Across the Atlantic, that would receive the Palme d’or at Cannes in 1978. Since Gwen, the Book of Sand, his first feature film made in 1985, the filmmaker has continued to delight us, with A Monkey’s Tale, Black Mor’s Island and Louise by the shore.
Filmography
2019 - The Prince's Voyage (Le Voyage du Prince) (feature film, animation)
2016 - Louise by the Shore (Louise en hiver) (feature film, animation, drama)
1969 - Une Bombe par hasard (A Random Bomb) (short, animation)
1965 - La Demoiselle et le violoncelliste (The Maid and the Cellist) (short, animation)
Xavier Picard
Xavier Picard was born ona 12 January, 1962, Reims, France. He is a animation director. His most notable animation credits include the feature film Moomins on the Riviera (2014), and the TV-series Odd Family (2005) and the animation series King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (1992). In 2019, he worked on Jean-François Laguionie's Le Voyage du Prince.
Filmography
2019 - The Prince's Voyage (Le Voyage du Prince) (feature film, animation)
2014 - Moomins on the Riviera, co. director Hanna Hemila (feature film, animation, family)
2005 – Odd Family (amination, TV- Series)
2001 - Marcelino Pan y Vino (amination, TV – series, 1 episode)
1995 - Littlest Pet Shop (animation, TV – series, 2 episodes)
1992 - King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (animation, adventure, family, TV – Series)
1993 – The Bots Master (action, animation, comedy, TV – series)
1991 - The Magic Trolls and the Troll Warriors (short, animation)
