Cannes, May 14th 2016

Stellan Skarsgård, Melinda Kinnaman och Felix Herngren will do the main characters in Linda Hambäcks new feature GORDON AND PADDY!

The 2D animated film is about a young mouse, who doesn´t even have a name from the beginning, shows her talent and takes over as Superintendent when the toad Gordon retires. First, its enough to just imitate his old old police methods, but when two children go missing, and the main suspect is the dreaded Fox, she needs to find the answers for herself. But is it true that The Fox is as dangerous as her reputation? Will the children be saved, and by whom?

Stellan Skarsgård plays Gordon, Melinda Kinnaman is Paddy and Felix Herngren is Valdemar.

The film that is freely written by Janne Vierth, adapted from the book of Ulf Nilsson and Gitte Spee (Det första fallet / The first case).

The production has just started in Trollhättan by Dockhus Animation, Storyboard by Elinor Bergman, Art Director Ola Larsson, DoP supervisor Gabriel Mkrttchian. Producer Linda Hambäck and Lina Jonsson, music by Martin Landquist and directed by Linda Hambäck.

Co-production withFilm Väst, SVT and LEE Film. With support from SFI, NFTF, Kreative Europe and YLE.

The film will premiere in the fall of 2017. The distributor is TriArt Film.