Who knew making a chicken dish in France can get be so complicated in France? Chicken for Linda! takes up into what happens when a kids wants the meal as a major strike is poised to shut down supermarkets and more. The film is from one of the animators who gave us The Girl Without Hands. Chicken For Linda! hits digital platforms in July. Here’s the press release from GKIDs and Shout! Studios:
THE CÉSAR-WINNING FRENCH ANIMATED FILM
CHICKEN FOR LINDA!
TO BE AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR DIGITAL PLATFORMS
FROM GKIDS ON JULY 2
CHICKEN FOR LINDA! | Available On Demand (youtube.com)
New York, NY (May 28, 2024) – On July 2, the delightfully charming French animated feature CHICKEN FOR LINDA! will be available on all major digital platforms, from GKIDS with home entertainment distribution from Shout! Studios. CHICKEN FOR LINDA! will be released in its original French language with English subtitles, and is available now for pre-order.
Directors Chiara Malta (Simple Women) and Sébastien Laudenbach (The Girl Without Hands) unleash a unique visual marvel of hand-painted animation with bright, color-blocked characters in a story that masterfully blends slapstick comedy, musicality and family drama. The critically acclaimed feature won the César and Lumières Award for Best Animated Feature. The film was additionally an official Cannes selection in the ACID program, and following a sold-out Work-in-Progress session at the 2022 Annecy International Film Festival, it went on to win the Annecy Grand Cristal in 2023. The film was also awarded both the Grand Prize and Audience Award at last year’s Animation is Film Festival.
After unfairly punishing her daughter Linda, Paulette is wracked with guilt and offers to make it up to her. Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, just like her father used to make. But with a general strike closing stores and pushing people into the streets all across town, the simple request quickly leads to an outrageous series of madcap events that spirals out of control as Paulette does everything she can to keep her promise and find a chicken for Linda.
CHICKEN FOR LINDA! is a sparkling, comical tale, and its animated whimsy will appeal to families and animation connoisseurs alike.
About GKIDS
GKIDS is the Academy Award-winning producer and distributor of artist-driven and award-winning animation from around the world. After an astounding 13 Best Animated Feature nominations, the company took home the Oscar in 2024 for Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s acclaimed feature, The Boy and the Heron. The company’s previous nominations include The Secret of Kells in 2010, A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita in 2012, Ernest & Celestine in 2014, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea in 2015, Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There in 2016, My Life as a Zucchini in 2017, The Breadwinner in 2018, Mirai in 2019, Wolfwalkers in 2021, and The Boy and the Heron in 2024. For more than a decade, GKIDS’ influence on cinema has redefined the perception of animation as an artistic medium on par with live-action film through its stewardship of the Studio Ghibli catalog and by introducing American audiences to the critically-acclaimed films of other master filmmakers from around the world such as Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai, Belle), Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells, Wolfwalkers), Benjamin Renner (Ernest & Celestine), Makoto Shinkai (Weathering With You), Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), Alberto Vázquez (Unicorn Wars) and Masaaki Yuasa (Inu-Oh, The Night is Short, Walk on Girl), among countless others. Also, GKIDS is the founder and host of ANIMATION IS FILM, the annual LA-based film festival which embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form, and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of the medium to its fullest range of artistic expressions. www.gkids.com
About Shout! Studios
Shout! Studios is a multiplatform media company specializing in film and TV distribution, development, and production. The company has evolved with the changing entertainment landscape to excel in all forms of content distribution, including theatrical, digital streaming, broadcast and in-flight licensing, physical media, and more. Shout! Studios owns and manages a large portfolio of contemporary and classic feature films, series, animation, and documentaries. The company’s creative acquisition mandate has established it as a leading independent distributor, with partners and properties including Aardman Animations, The Carol Burnett Show, GKIDS, LAIKA Studios, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (in partnership with creator Joel Hodgson), and Sesame Street, alongside many others. Shout! Kids focuses on live-action and animated kids and family properties including anime, and the company releases genre and horror films and television shows under the Scream Factory imprint. Shout! Studios also operates the acclaimed streaming service Shout! TV and its family of FAST channels. The company produces, acquires, and distributes new films, including Shout! Studios’ original Old Henry (Tim Blake Nelson), Linoleum (Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn), What’s Love Got To Do With It (Lily James, Emma Thompson, Shazad Latif), The Kill Room (Uma Thurman, Joe Manganiello, Samuel L. Jackson), Drugstore June (Esther Povitsky), and the upcoming Viggo Mortensen-directed western The Dead Don’t Hurt (Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen). Shout! Studios is based in Los Angeles, California. For more on Shout! Studios, visit ShoutStudios.com
