Silex Teams With Charades on Animated California-Set Surf Drama ‘In Waves’ (EXCLUSIVE)
for “In Waves,” a California-set tale of unconditional love and surfing, adapted from American illustrator AJ Dungo’s critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name.
Set in sun-drenched Los Angeles, “In Wave” follows a shy teenager, AJ, who falls head over heels in love with the radiant, beautiful and popular Kristin, who is passionate about surfing. The pair bonds as Kristin initiates AJ to surfing, and their friendship blossoms into true love, surrounded by their close-knit community. Their happy life together takes an expected turn when Kristin starts suffering from a fatal illness.
Bertin will be pitching the project in development at the Annecy Film Festival which kicked off June 14. The movie is budgeted at $8.4 million and is expected to go into production at the end of 2022 for a delivery in late 2024. “’Mirai’ was the first animated feature film we sold, followed by ‘I Lost My Body,’ so we were very cautious to board our first animated feature film as a co-producer, and ‘In Waves’ was the perfect fit for our DNA, it made sense in every way for us,” said Charades’ co-founder Yohann Comte.
Polish, German, Portuguese, Chinese and Slovakian. Since being published in 2019, the graphic novel has sold Bertin said she and Nora wanted to adapt the graphic novel into an animated feature rather than a live-action one because “only animation could recreate the sensorial and dream-like aspects of the story and express a myriad of emotions, while avoiding a crude representation of disability and death.”
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