We’re proud to say that the wonderful Oscura has been nominated for a Webby Award!

Chocolate Liberation Front are thrilled with the news that two productions - The Adventures of Figaro Pho and Wild Kratts Interactive, were winners at last night’s Kidscreen Awards in New York!

The Adventures of Figaro Pho has won the AACTA Award for Best Children’s Television Series!

Congratulations to Luke Jurevicius and the entire team!

See the full list of winners and nominees here: http://www.aacta.org/winners-nominees/2nd-aacta-awards.aspx

Titanic - The Ultimate Immersive Experience is nominated as Best Cross-Platform Project at the Canadian Screen Awards.

http://www.academy.ca/awards/nominees.cfm

The Adventures of FIgaro Pho is nominated as Best Children’s Series at the AACTA Awards (AFIs).  

Congrats to Luke Jurevicius and the whole team. 

http://www.aacta.org/winners-nominees/2nd-aacta-awards.aspx

CLF is pleased to announce that Wild Kratts Interactive has been nominated for a Kidscreen Award!

CLF are excited to announce that The Adventures of Figaro Pho has been nominated for an Australian Screen Sound Guild Award in the Best Sound for an Animated Short Film or Program category.

It’s a big week for our little guy, Figaro. The first episode of the new long form series airs this Saturday night on ABC3!

CLF hearts lots of things.

Asimo the Robot. Snickerdoodle biscuits. Swim-up bars.

We also heart Oscura and think its quite possibly the raddest game ever. So its gratifying to know that we’re not the only ones to think this way…

Its been fun, Collingwood. But sometimes we’ve just got to move on…

As of Monday 13 August, Chocolate Liberation Front will be located at 326 Victoria Street Richmond.

CLF is pleased to welcome two new operatives to the team: Lindsay Lipson and Katy Morrison.

CLF is also pleased to announce that Amy Alexander has secured the role of Digital Media Intern specialising in animation and design.

CLF are currently in production on ‘Wonderland’ (working title); an online interactive documentary by first time directors David Elliot-Jones, Lachlan McLeod and Louis Dai.

 ‘Wonderland’ is an investigation into the Indian Student Crisis; a world where thousands of vulnerable young people have been left to face exploitation, poverty and racial violence in the very country they were told would provide their dream future.

CLF is proud to announce that after a marathon series of Cup Fever! during the 2010 World Cup Santo, Sam and Ed are back with Sports Fever!

Produced by Working Dog, Santo Sam and Ed’s Sports Fever! is broadcast live in front of a studio audience and airs this Monday 30th of Jan at 10.45pm on Channel Seven.

CLF is thrilled to be developing and implementing a social media experience for Sports Fever! overseeing all online activities of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. 

CLF is very excited to share the news that Wild Kratts Interactive has been nominated for the Digi Awards in two categories! The Digi awards (formerly the Canadian New Media Awards) recognize the most exciting and well executed Canadian contributions to the global mediascape. 

We here at CLF are very excited by the release of the iOS app Oscura - the brainchild of designer/animator/art director/visionary Ole Alfheim, who with the other members of the CLF team and the wonderful people at MTV worked on this game that has a focus on beautiful visuals, seamless animation and ultra-fun gameplay.

It started with Ole’s vision of the game: Oscura is about the feeling of trespassing onto territories you don’t belong in and the sense of excitement and exploration that brings. By using a minimalistic color palette and silhouette visuals, I wanted Oscura to be an abstract experience, letting the player project their own imagination and feelings into it. - Ole Alfheim

CLF is humbled by the Special Commendation they received at the United Nations Association of Australia
Media Peace Awards 2011 for their project ‘Asylum: Exit Australia”.

The Media Peace Awards promote understanding and awareness about humanitarian and social justice issues by recognising those in the Australian media whose work stimulates public awareness and influences policy change.

The project, Asylum : Exit Australia, is an immersive, interactive simulation that is based on the experiences of real asylum seekers, drawing on statistics and facts about the difficult journeys undertaken by refugees.

CLF would like to announce the expansion the of Wild Kratts digital property into 3 new languages! Thanks to the sales team at 9 Story, select packages of the wildly popular online games developed by CLF have been licensed to Discovery Kids Latin America and VRT (Belgium) and translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Flemish languages.

The games, star Martin and Chris Kratt, and teach kids about the earth’s wildlife by introducing them to amazing creature powers, launched on PBSkids.com (US) and TVO.com(Canada) in December (2011) to tremendous popularity and acclaim. This marks the first of CLF’s digital projects to be translated, and we couldn’t be more excited!  Wild Kratts Interactive was produced by Chocolate Liberation Front for The Kratt Brothers, 9Story , TVOntario and PBS with funding from The Bell New Media Fund and The OMDC.

Dan and Frank will be traveling to Mipcom with a fantastic slate of new properties for television, online, mobile game platforms and an impressive collection of ganache chocolates.

If you would like to arrange a meeting with them please contact amy(at)givemechocolate.me

Chocolate Liberation Front is very pleased to have been shortlisted as a Finalist for a New South Wales Premier’s History Award for "Immigration Nation:Building Multicultural Australia Interactive Documentary"  .

The winners of the Awards will be announced by the Premier of NSW on September 5th as part of NSW History Week.  

We’ve purchased a block of 90% pure dark chocolate in anticipation.

As we are working on the TV series The Adventures of Figaro Pho, based on the award winning shorts for ABC TV, we are getting more and more excited! The scripts are hilarious and the artwork coming from the amazing Deane Taylor and the super talented team at Vishus Productions (creator Luke Jurevicius’ studio) is gorgeous. 

And with the animation team headed up by animation director David Webster we just know it will come to life like a dream. Exciting times ahead!

An ambitious documentary series, Go Back To Where You Came From brings the often contentious subject of asylum seekers into the nation’s lounge rooms, bringing to the screen a confronting 25-day journey tracing in reverse the journeys that real refugees have taken to reach Australia.

The Chocolate Liberation Front were proud to deliver the groundbreaking simulation Asylum: Exit Australia to SBS to accompany this latest offering.

Chocolate Liberation Front delivers the groundbreaking Asylum: Exit Australia online simulation for SBS.

This simulation puts the user in the shoes of an asylum seeker exposing them to the difficult situations and decisions that are faced by people who are forced to flee their home country. Along the way the user will face danger and injustice, corruption and bureaucracy, but also find opportunities for kinship and cooperation. Their goal - to find a safe place for themselves and their family - is not an easy one.

Asylum: Exit Australia was produced in association with The Australian Refugee Council, and with the support and assistance of Screen Australia’s National Documentary Program, Screen Australia’s Innovation Fund, Film Victoria and SBS Online.

Chocolate Liberation Front has been selected as an Official Honoree at the 15^th Annual Webby Awards for Immigration Nation: Building Multicultural Australia. The Webbys are the most prestigious international awards honouring excellence on the Internet, and CLF is very excited to sit alongside fellow Honorees Reuters, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Time Inc. and Media Storm. 

Chocolate Liberation Front will be attending Kidscreen in New York, February 15-20th, 2011.

We invite buyer and broadcasters to view the brand new stop motion trailer for Critter Litter and the 2D/3D trailer for Oscura in the screening library.

CLF will be promoting the The Adventures of Figaro Pho 13 x 30 mins (39 x 7 mins) series and will showcase the interactive service work completed from The Wild Kratts, Cup Fever, and Kids In The Hall Death Comes to Town all completed in 2010.

Dan Fill & Frank Verheggen are in attendance. To contact them while overseas please email: melbourne(at)givemechocolate.me

Isn’t your own website the last thing you ever keep up? The CLF new look website provides quick access to the television programs, websites and video games we are working on at CLF. The new site is ipad and iphone compatible and there is a password protected client registration section.

Innovative SBS Documentary launches at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne.

The cutting edge documentary offers a three hour immersive experience that allows users to explore how migrants have build the nation of Australia. The online documentary will be available free of charge at sbs.com.au as will the streaming of the related three part documentary series Immigration Nation.