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DELHI: A new television series, ‘Earthlings’ with
the subtitle ‘One Planet, One People’, has been
launched as the first programme by Pala Flicks which aims
to produce socially conscious content for television, films,
web, and interactive media.
 Pala
Flicks has been established by Los Angeles Writer-Director
Greg Acuna now living in Goa. The company plans on reaching
out to creators around the planet in an effort to forge cooperation,
artistic vision and hope for our world.
“Earthlings”
will integrate animation and live action into an educational
entertainment experience. The project is to be developed in
India for worldwide distribution. The cross platform show
is for pre-teens and will empower children to think for themselves
with open minds. Children aged 6 to 11 who have grown up as
pre-schoolers using multimedia education need a new level
of sophistication in educational television. Through repetition,
kids will learn and perfect new games, dances, songs and exercises.
According
to Greg, ‘the huge backlash against violence in programming
for children makes it a perfect time for this type of content’.
The project has been a part of the X-Media-Lab and a finalist
at the NASSCOM “Super Pitch”. Greg has been a speaker
and judge at several India-based events over the past year
and has been featured in the animation press including “Animation
Reporter” and “Animation Today.”
Pala Flicks is currently forming key production and distribution
partnerships as well as raising finance to produce the “Earthlings”
series. The company will attend MIPTV in Cannes in April to
sell the multicultural show to various television channels
around the world. The company’s next project is an animated
feature film call “The Golden Flame” a completely
different superhero story that fits in with the world changing
philosophy of the company.
Greg Acuna grew up in Los Angeles and attended USC where he
earned his BA. He received his MA in Playwriting from San
Francisco State. He has written and directed one produced
feature film, co-scripted two others, and been a script doctor
on a number of projects. Other accomplishments include several
productions of his plays, poetry published in four countries,
composing songs, directing music videos, writing articles,
designing commercial graphics, illustrating picture books
for children and last year he completed writing a literary
novel. He has taught screenwriting at the university level
and been a consultant for Paramount Pictures, Exchange Cubed,
Arthur Anderson and CNA. Greg has traveled the world extensively
having lived in quite a few countries. He moved to India in
2001.
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