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Minik & Pani – childrens book and animation

Animation and childrens book; age 4-6

An arctic quest!


Detta är vår nya barnbok och animation. Den är under utveckling och vi söker finansiär för filmen och samarbete med utgivare.

More about our production here:   WAYSIDESTORIES


Illustration , music, creation, story, animation: Malin Skinnar with Co Writer Ingvar Karpsten. Musician Celso Paco. Work in progress. Future animation  Lisa Scharf, sound Stormfågel AB.

Inspiration from Greenland.

New animation

More about our production here:   WAYSIDESTORIES


Illustration , music, creation, story, animation: Malin Skinnar with Co Writer Ingvar Karpsten.

Inspiration from Greenland.

Malin Skinnar video creator, storyteller and visual artist

Power of the polar bear, m:brane pitch

Words were magic – Greenland

The sun is back – Tasiilaq, Greenland

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Power of the polar bear, m:brane pitch

Kuitse, Tasiilaq, Greenland

Here is a link directly for financiers and broadcasters at m:brane

WITH INSPIRATION FROM EAST GREENLAND 

My video for m:brane,  international film for kids by  Waysidestories – Malin Storyteller


M:brane Forum

Business for arts sake

M:brane is SMART CONTENT FOR SAVVY YOUNG AUDIENCES

We are very happy to participate in m:brane:  Indigenous North Arctic  Welcome to read more about our film at Waysidestories;  Power of the polar bear.

Waysidestories animation

Waysidestories Animation by Malin Skinnar

Play and you become brave. With courage follows strength.

-Power of the polar bear© Malin Skinnar – with inspiration from Tasiilaq, East Greenland.

Mixed media, stop motion animation and storytelling

Lycklig i stormen på Sveriges högsta väg

Resilience and survival

In this  version of my children’s story about Kuitse and the Power of a Polar Bear, the main character has transformed into two: the fraternal twins Minik and Pani.

The themes, Resilience and Survival, are similar, but through the interaction and dynamic between the siblings my intent is to even stronger and clearer instill hope, empowerment, and self-esteem in the young audience of challenged communities.

Through their playing and curiosity the children get themselves into situations where strength and courage are required.

These qualities, however, are not depicted as finite goals or as the absence of fear, but rather as inner resources one may develop and reach for when needed.

And in the end, perhaps, the bravest thing one can do is to ask for help.

My intent is to bring out stories of hope and empowerment to challenged communities, stories in which the narrative and the dialogues speak of how mutual support and encouragement may lead to personal resilience and strength.

Through playfulness and mutual affirmation a sense of courage is built.

Courage, however, is not depicted as a finite goal or as the absence of fear, but rather as an inner resource one may develop and reach for when needed. And in the end, perhaps, the bravest thing one can do is to ask for help.

– The tale is inspired by a Greenlandic hunter who survived an attack by a polar bear and returned to his camp with inexhaustible strength.

In the story the narrator has a prominent part; also when the images may speak for themselves the voice is there as a guide, so that the child is never alone in watching.

Play and you become brave. With courage follows strength.

The tale’s theme is how to transform one’s fears into courage by being playful, hence the story is one of delight and security. Moreover, the narrative is conveyed through colorful and vivid imagery, plenty of music and dance, as well as dialogue and voice-over.

”One day the young hunter end up in a dance battle with a polar bear and falls into the bear’s maw …”

The story as we present it is the result of the numerous occasions that Malin as a performing storyteller have told it on stage, during which it transformed and became quite a different narrative than the legend it started out from.

This production is brought forward by Malin Skinnar, adventurer and multi-artist, as well as a team consisting of artists with various skills. 

Waysidestories Adventure from Greenland
Selected projects for M:brane 2020;

KUITSE – POWER OF THE POLAR BEAR

Waysidestories OU/Malin Stoyteller SE / TV-series for 4-6 yrs

Indigenous Arctic North, Rookie

Our tribe:

Creator Malin Skinnar: Storyteller, Director, Author, Illustrator, Video, Songs 

Adaptation Ingvar Karpsten & Malin Skinnar /Sweden/Estonia/Switzerland

Animator in future Lisa Scharf & Malin Skinnar, Estonia/Germany

Music Malin Skinnar andCelso Paco, Mozambique/Sweden

Sound  in future Carl Bromell/ Sweden

Production  Waysidestories OU/Estonia

Script from the book; Kuitse – Pojken som blev stark som en isbjörn / Malin Skinnar

Translations Iris Vogt – German/ Alex Ilea – Romanian /Lisa Scharf  – Estonian – Russian/ Rebecca Skinnar – English/ Carolina Const – Polish/ Ingvar Karpsten – Italian -French /

-Power of the polar bear© Malin Skinnar – www.malinstoryteller.com with inspiration from Tasiilaq, Ammassalik fjord, East Greenland.

Work in progress;  paper cut stop motion /mixed media.

Kuitse, Tasiilaq, Greenland
Malin Skinnar video creator, storyteller and visual artist

Words were magic – Greenland

The sun is back – Tasiilaq, Greenland

Minik & Pani – childrens book and animation

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The sun is back – Tasiilaq, Greenland

Child in East Greenland Sermiligaq, photo Malin Skinnar

Ninteen small yellow paper suns were lifted high into the wind and the children’s song echoed miles around.

”Ajaajaa the long winter, the deep snow. – The boundary is reached. Those up here say so..

The return of the torch in the sky

Girls in folk costume, ittoqqortoormiit, east Greenland 1993

Ljusets återkomst i Arktis

Greenland, Tasiilaq, boys. Photo Malin Skinnar

The midwinter darkness had begun to relax its grip on the Arctic and I met little Kista.

She had just cut out a yellow paper sun as a greeting to the return of the torch in the sky.

Kista’s daycare centre group would welcome the sun.

People celebrating like they always did, some months after the constellation of Aasuutit had appeared on the horizon to the east.

We were to dress up finely, as the Inuits used to do, and the daycare staff put thermoses of hot cocoa into the children’s small haversacks.

Tasilaaq, Inuit girls. Photo Malin Skinnar

The sandwich boxes were filled with fine festive food in honour of the sun.

The children were going to eat both dried seal meat and fine black berries with oil from seal blubber.

The everyday Danish-type food at the daycare centre had no place in in the haversacks.

Kista showed her own food bag and smiled all over her face: dried, plaited, blood-filled seal intestines lay like liquorice sticks in a fine bunch!

The snow was hard and the children trotted off in their colourful overalls up the hill.

Each one held tightly onto a small flower stick with a yellow paper sun glued to its end.

It was hard to walk, because all the children wanted to look at their own suns and also to tread in the small footprints of the children in front.

After much tumbling about, blowing of noses and taping-on of sun rays we reached the crevice on the cliff where the first rays of the sun could be seen.

The children knew that the small stars of Aasuutit had hunted the sun up out of the dark and that the blinking of the Pole Star came as the message that she — the sun — was here.

A golden glow spread along the horizon and the first rays of the sun touched the red cliff tops on the Kissaviannguit hill.

— Nineteen small yellow paper suns were lifted high into the wind and the children’s song echoed for miles around.

”Ajaajaa the long winter, the deep snow. — The boundary is reached. Those up there say so. . . Ajaajaa, ajaajaa!

Yes, yes — it will be glorious — pleasant warmth. The newly emergent makes us glad. Ajaajaa, ajaajaa! Such happy people — Ajaajaa!

Inuit boys, east Greenland

Text/ Photo: Malin Skinnar, storyteller from Sweden in love with Greenland

Child in East Greenland Sermiligaq, photo Malin Skinnar
Malin Skinnar video creator, storyteller and visual artist

Words were magic – on sagas in Greenland

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