A multiverse of whim, wit and wonder
Go somewhere impossible.
Come home more yourself.
A café one storey taller inside than outside, where monsters finally stop apologising. A city of dinosaurs who have everything worked out, except what's real. Nine young people who can hear the forest, and what it's been trying to tell us. Three animated worlds, one imagination, and the door's open.
Momo & Yeti
The world has been telling monsters who to be for a very long time.
It wants them quieter, smaller and easier to have around. It asks for everything and promises nothing back. So the Medusa hides her eyes, the giant apologises for his strength, and the unicorn keeps a city's forgotten songs to himself. Then a grieving girl starts knocking on their doors, asking for the very thing each of them was taught to hide.
In San Mágos they call that a revolution. We call it you being you.
Her brother left her a cure for sunlight. It only works if 8 monsters choose to give her a piece of themselves.
It's raining at Orion Akino's funeral. Two dragons conduct the service, a gargoyle sniffles through a stone nose, and the café down the street has sent umbrellas. That night a song rises out of the cooling fan in his lab, and he assembles in green pixels across his sister's screens, dead and entirely unbothered.
Venus is 17, a vampire, a hacker and an inventor. She goes looking for ingredients and finds a family.
- 9 x 45 to 60 min
- Music-driven animation
- Older young adults and adults
- In development
Magic is a self fully accepted.
The first law of San Mágos. The more honestly someone lives their own nature, the stronger their magic runs.
Everyone here is hiding something wonderful. Turn them over.
The unicorn farts sparkles
Welcome to MTHRNTR, from Nothing True, Nothing False. Charbel X
The medusa sips her tea
At MTHRNTR Café
You can be who you'll be
Step into San Mágos at momoandyeti.com A tale of monsters. (Or are there none?)
Prehistoric meets cosmic.
Give a species all of human knowledge in its pocket and it'll use it to argue with strangers about lunch.
Somebody had to hold up a mirror to that, and it may as well have teeth. Dino Loco is a comedy about how ridiculous we are and how brilliant we can be, wrapped around a bigger wonder: if time can bend and realities can fold, what exactly is real?
You laugh first. You think later. Somewhere in between, you realise the dinosaurs might be onto something.
The Devourer of Worlds has a few things she'd like to talk about.
Millions of years ago she arrived, uninvited, at the biggest party in nine realms. Nine gods struck at her and every strike passed straight through. She ate stars. Standing in her way were a T-Rex princess on what she called field research, a Stegosaurus frightened of nearly everything, and a tiny Compsognathus who insisted on being known as the Magnificent Pip.
Their legend is now painted on the palace walls of a city under twin suns, where dinosaurs run everything and humans are the pets. And a young lawyer has started to suspect the story everyone knows isn't the one that happened.
- 10 x 30 min
- Animated comedy-adventure
- Families watching together
- In development
"Of course I'm scared. But if I run, I'll miss the show."
Spike, Stegosaurus
The game · In testing now
Every walk feeds a dinosaur.
Dino Loco is also a mobile game: a pet, a step counter and a treasure hunt in one. Your real steps uncover mystery rocks around your neighbourhood, and the more you move, the bigger your herd grows. When it's wet outside, Pip leads short indoor routines, and seated moves count too.
First for iPhone, with Android to follow. The look and features will keep changing along the way.
Crack this rock. 3 taps should do it.
Time ain't real,
Rewind the Apocalypse, from the mini album of the same name. Charbel X
but this groove is.
Enter Dinotopia at dinoloco.com You laugh first. You think later.
Our planet is running out of time. Nine young people just heard it.
The children alive today will inherit this mess, and most of what reaches them about it is despair or a lecture. So Kith9 starts somewhere else: a forest that remembers, a reef that's a city, a sky with rooms. Fall in love first. People only fight for what they love.
KITH9
Beasts, trees, bees & seas
Everything they fight for is real. Only the magic is invented.
Ancient coins bond nine young people to the living world's hidden inside. Every place they protect is real, and so is every threat to it. An extraction empire wants what they carry, and it's coming for the children.
- 12 x 35 min
- Animated adventure saga
- Ages 10 to 14 and families
- In development
Beasts, trees, seas, bees, sky, fire, freshwater, ice and soil. Tap a coin to meet who's looking after them.
The next game · Work in progress
A comic you walk through.
A guardian's coin has gone missing, and it's left imprints all over your neighbourhood. Choose a walk, put your phone in your pocket and go. It buzzes when you're close. Coco the capuchin comes along for the ride, and so does a very reasonable man with a drone, who'd like to get there first.
Fun first, facts on the back page. Still being built and tested, so all of this will change.
You bring you.
Beasts, Trees, Bees & Seas, title track. Charbel X
I bring me.
Meet the guardians at kith9.com Forests that remember. Skies with rooms. Seas with opinions.
Three questions to take home
Every good story sends you home with something in your pocket.
From The Time Before Time
Before there was time, there was this family.
They didn't know they were a family, because family hadn't been invented yet. Then somebody got bored, somebody picked up a remote, and every world on this page began at their dinner table.
"I never fitted either world, so I built three."
Febble Flim is Charbel A. Zeaiter.
He never fitted either world, so he built three. Charbel is a Sydney-based writer, designer, founder and songwriter who started his first business in 1988, started Velvet Onion & Friends in 2001, and founded and runs Faster Zebra, a school, studio and intergenerational community for people building ventures that build them back.
Febble Flim is his alter ego, the name on the door of these worlds. He created all three, wrote their stories and scripts, and released their songs as Charbel X. Under every monster, dinosaur and coin sit the things he believes in most: education, unlocking creativity and people finding who they really are.
- Momo & Yeti
- "Momo & Yeti came from being rejected by two worlds and working out who I am. Every monster in it carries a part of themselves the world taught them to hide."
- Dino Loco
- To laugh at how absurd we've become, and to ask what's real while we're at it.
- Kith9
- Because our planet is in crisis, and wonder carries people further than warnings do.
Producers, broadcasters and partners: each series has a written pilot, a season plan and its own album. Come and talk on LinkedIn.
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