Les Armateurs

Les Armateurs is a French film production company focused on animation. It was founded by Didier Brunner in 1994 and is based in Paris. It produces feature films, short films and television series. Brunner served as the president of the company until 2014, when he was succeeded by Reginald de Guillebon. He retains a role as consultant

Les Armateurs first received international attention with the release of the 1997 short film The Old Lady and the Pigeons, directed by Sylvain Chomet. Several of the company's subsequent productions and co-productions have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the studio is part of hildegarde

Productions

Animated feature films

• The Old Lady and the Pigeons (Sylvain Chomet, 1997)
• Kirikou and the Sorceress (Michel Ocelot, 1998)
• Princes and Princesses (Michel Ocelot, 2000)
• The Boy Who Wanted to Do the Impossible (Jannik Hastrup, 2002)
• The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
• T'Choupi (Jean-Luc François, 2004)
• Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (Michel Ocelot and Bénédicte Galup, 2005)
• The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, 2009)
• The Storytelling Show (Jean-Christophe Roger, 2010)
• Kirikou and the Men and Women (Michel Ocelot, 2012)
• Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2012)
• The Swallows of Kabul (Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobé Mévellec, 2019)

Live-action feature films

• L'Équilibre de la terreur (Jean-Martial Lefranc, 2005)
• Kill Me Please (Olias Barco, 2010)

Animated short films

• The Old Lady and the Pigeons (Sylvain Chomet, 1997)
• L'Inventaire fantôme (Franck Dion, 2004)
• Vos papiers (Claire Fouquet, 2006)
• Ovulación! (Anne-Sophie Salles, 2006)
• Les P'tits Lus (Anne-Sophie Salles, 2010)

Animated television series

• Carland Cross (1996–1997)
• Lupo Alberto (after the comic Lupo Alberto by Guido Silvestri, 1997)
• T'choupi et Doudou (Jean-Luc François, 1999)
• Belphégor (Jean-Christophe Roger, 2000))
• Ponpon (Fabien Drouet, 2005)
• Gift (Régis Loisel, Fred Louf, 2005)
• Kiri le clown (Eric Cazes, 2005)
• Allez raconte (after the comic by Lewis Trondheim and José Parondo; season 1: Jean-Christophe Roger and Jean-Luc François, 2006 / season 2: Frédéric Mège and Jean-Christophe Roger, 2007)
• Kirikou découvre les animaux d'Afrique (Michel Ocelot and Bénédicte Galup, 2007)
• Paco, Nouky et Lola (Jean-Christophe Craps, 2008)
• T'choupi et ses amis (Franck Vibert, 2008)
• À table T'choupi ! (Jean-François Bordier, 2008)
• Cajou (2009)
• La Fée Coquillette (Jean-Christophe Roger, 2010)
• Martine (Claude Allix, 2012)
• T'choupi à l'école (Lionel Kerjean, 2013)
• The Long Long Holiday (Delphine Maury and Olivier Vinuesa, 2015)
• Ernest et Célestine, La Collection (Julien Chheng and Jean-Christophe Roger, 2017)

External links

• Official website (in French)