Irelands bitterest Granny unveils her own website this week as Brown Bag Films launch their latest creation; www.grannyogrimm.com.
Based on Nicky Phelan’s IFTA-winning short film ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’, the website accompanies the forthcoming 26 x 11 minute animated comedy series that will be launched at the Cartoon Forum in Norway on the 22nd of September and at Mipcom, Cannes this October.
Granny O’Grimm is an animated series about a bitter and twisted Irish grandmother telling classic fairytales to her grandchildren. The characters in the fairytales get the full brunt of Granny’s rage at the aging process and her contempt for youth and beauty as she rewrites the stories and gives them the Granny treatment.
The website features film clips, Granny’s agony aunt column and a Granny-style storybook. “This interweb lark will never catch on” said Granny, 78, who has also launched a Facebook page and a Twitter campaign, “but if it does, it’ll give me the chance to insult millions of eejits worldwide and not just in Ballymulch”
Written by Irish comedian Kathleen O’Rourke, ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ was developed as a short film for the Irish Film Board’s Frameworks scheme. It has since played the international film festival circuit where it has won over 15 international awards. The original short film will have an Irish theatrical release this December.
“Based on the enormous success of the short film, it was an obvious choice to develop it into a television series” said Nicky Phelan, Director of Granny O’Grimm.
Commenting on the new site, Brown Bag Films Cathal Gaffney said “we have developed Granny to work across all screen platforms with podcasts, iPhone games and a ‘Best Granny’ competition to launch in phase two of the site”.
6 comments so far
Congratulations Granny,
Never knew where Jedward got their hairstyle from ,I do now even at your age your a style icon. Go rock L.A. and show those young ones how to boogie, you know deep down (under that harsh exterior which I don’t beleve for one minute)theirs a babe waiting to explode in L.A.go give Brangelina a run for her money you might even get to read to all her kids ( how great would that be)
See you on the red Carpet
Sandra
4 February 2010
9:33 am
hi this show is the best its really funny
4 February 2010
6:50 pm
I looked at your site to see if I can buy the Dvd for a 6 yr old birthday. I absolutely loved film clip, not sure he would ever sleep again after it. It is WONDERFUL. Congratulation. Can you buy it and are you making more. Best of luck with awards.
Jin
17 February 2010
1:16 pm
Hi Jin,
I’m afraid Granny O’Grimm’s short film’ isn’t available on DVD, but we are working on more stories and a Christmas special, so keep checking in!
glad you enjoyed the film.
17 February 2010
1:18 pm
I love Sleeping Beauty. I’ve been re-enacting bits (without the skill of the original, of course) and telling everyone about it. It’s brilliant. Ate yer hart out, Peig Sayers.
10 March 2010
11:32 am
I think u are most unkind and unfair when you refer to Granny as a bitter twisted grandmother …. she is telling the truth to her grandchildren about reality . I love her – Rock on granny !
1 February 2011
12:18 am