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To donate visit: goo.gl/GRpW11 Dereck and Beverly Joubert answer the call to save a group of rhinos from poachers in South Africa. Join us in supporting them on their journey to save one of Africa’s most iconic species. Despite decades of research to the contrary, a myth persists that the horn of a rhinoceros has medicinal qualities for humans. Even today, one rhino is poached for its horn every 7.5 hours worldwide—and only 20,000 rhinos remain in the wild. As we celebrate World Rhino Day on September 22, GoPro is proud to partner with several organizations dedicated to saving this majestic species. Rhinos without Borders is a partnership between Great Plains Foundation and &Beyond. Together, they are on a mission to find the right formula of conservation, communities, and commerce that will make a lasting, sustainable difference to the world’s wildlife. Rhinos Without Borders program is relocating rhinos on a scale never before seen, moving 100 of them from the highest-density poaching areas in South Africa to the safest regions in Botswana. Three calves have already been born to the relocated rhinos. Protecting them will lead to a thriving ecosystem that affects all animals around the rhinos, right down to the lowly dung beetle. It’s a model the organization hopes to expand across Africa. Join GoPro in supporting these organizations’ efforts to help move 100 rhinos into safety. Together, we can finish what they’ve started—and save the last of the rhinos. Shot on the HERO4® camera from ‪http://GoPro.com. To license clips from this video go to https://licensing.gopro.com Music Composed by William Ryan Fritch http://www.williamryanfritch.com/ Additional Music by Aaron Martin “Lost Light” http://losttribesound.com/ Score Revolution http://scorerevolution.com/ For more from GoPro, follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gopro Twitter: https://twitter.com/gopro Instagram: https://instagram.com/gopro Tumblr: http://gopro.tumblr.com/ Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/gopro Vine: https://goo.gl/m3nQz7

Directed by Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke. For more information about the film or how to connect with the community please visit www.tashiandthemonk.com Emmy nominated 2016 Best Short Award, International Documentary Association, 2014 Pare Lorentz Award, International Documentary Association, 2014 Indomitable Spirit Award Mountainfilm in Telluride 2014 Moving Mountains Award Mountainfilm in Telluride 2014 Best Film on Mountain Culture Banff Mountain Film Festival 2014 On a remote mountaintop a brave social experiment is taking place. Committed to raising children with love and compassion, former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok attempts to heal his own childhood abandonment by adopting 85 unwanted children and growing them as a family at Jhamtse Ghatsal, a remote children’s community in the foothills of the Himalayas. The film follows Jhamtse’s newest arrival, a wild and troubled 5-year-old girl named Tashi, as she learns what love is and how it can help her to heal.

Global brand management company Genius Brands International (GBI) is partnering with Disney’s Lion King director Rob Minkoff and Frozen co-writer Shane Morris on the development and production of a new animated preschool series Rainbow Rangers. The announcement was made by GBI, chairman and CEO, Andy Heyward.

Featuring CGI animation, the creative team is in development on 52 x 11’ episodes of Rainbow Rangers. Minkoff will produce the series with Morris serving as producer and head writer along with his partner Tim Mansfield. Key series designs were created by Brittany Myers and Ruben Aquino, who was a supervising animator on many of the major Disney characters from Little Mermaid through to Frozen. Emmy Award-winning producer Andy Heyward will serve as an executive producer. GBI anticipates premiering a “Rainbow Rangers” special in fall 2017 with a full series launch in spring 2018. Additionally, the company is concurrently in development on a global licensing, merchandising and retail program to coincide with the series launch.

Rainbow Rangers follows the adventures of seven unique magical girls from the other side of the rainbow who serve as Earth’s guardian to protect it from a wicked villain through teamwork, bravery, creativity and compassion.

“We are absolutely ecstatic to be working in collaboration with Rob, Shane, Tim and Ruben on developing this joyous, empowering adventure for little girls,” said GBI, chairman and CEO, Andy Heyward.  “The creative genius being poured into this original and powerful property is already attracting incredible interest from all sectors of the industry.”

“Rainbow Rangers is an exciting premise with fantastic characters and an incredible world,” added Morris. “It’s also inspirational. It’s about the amazing power and strength of these seven magical girls. I truly enjoy writing stories that demonstrate girls can do anything, and when girls work together, well, anything is possible.”

“With two young children at home I’ve been exposed to a lot of TV animation lately and felt it was time to jump in with both feet,” explained Minkoff.  “And the appeal of a team of young girls protecting the planet is undeniable and couldn’t be more timely. Rainbow Rangers is truly an incredible opportunity, and I’m very pleased to be working with GBI’s creative team.”

GBI will unveil Rainbow Rangers to international buyers at the upcoming MIP Junior Conference at Cannes, France.

“We are very eager to debut the concept to potential media, licensing, and promotional partners at this year’s MIP Junior,” said Stone Newman, who was recently promoted to GBI’s president of global consumer products for worldwide content sales and marketing. “Our schedule is already fully booked, and we have no doubt Rainbow Rangers will be a huge hit for us at the market.”

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Kids entertainment specialist CAKE has announced a deal with Discovery in Italy for the multi award-winning Oscar’s Oasis, produced by French CGI animation studio TeamTO, Tuba Entertainment in Korea and CAKE and commissioned by TF1 France.

The deal, finalised by CAKE’s senior sales manager Bianca Rodriguez, will see Discovery Italy broadcasting the series this November on its free-to-air channel K2.

Oscar’s Oasis (78 x 7’) is a non-verbal CGI animated series starring Oscar, a lonely lizard who fights through an unforgiving desert terrain perpetually crossing paths with a seemingly endless horde of enemies. It often appears that Oscar can’t catch a break, despite all his best efforts to survive, to find water and above all, to avoid dying from boredom.

Aimed at 6 to 11 year olds, Oscar’s Oasis is full of visual charm and memorable characters winning the best animated series at the 20th edition of the International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi and the “Prix du public” award for best series at the “Voix d’étoiles” festival (France). The series was also selected at Annecy and Cartoons on the Bay.

Oscar’s Oasis has been a hit with international audiences, airing on key channels all around the world including Netflix US, Cartoon Network Latin America, Disney Asia, Australia and Benelux, Canal Once in Mexico, MBC Middle East and in Scandinavia on SVT in Sweden and MTV3 in Finland.

CAKE, CCO and MD, Ed Galton said, “K2 is a great partner for Oscar’s Oasis and we are looking forward to Italian audiences enjoying Oscar and his antics.”

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