dirtgirlworld
Episode Length: 11 minutes
Number of Episodes: 52
Demographic: 3-6
Gender: Neutral
Country of Origin: Australia
Languages: English
Broadcaster: ABC Kids and iView
dirtgirlworld is an out of the box animated, narrative driven world, with big hearted characters with who love nature and love getting grubby. dirtgirl grows awesome tomatoes, knows cloud names and drives a big orange tractor. Her world - dirtgirlworld - is brought vividly to life in this animation series. Helping dirtgirl are: her best friend scrapboy, grubby the grub, a stunt arena ring master; ken the weevil, a super stunt star insect with an inferiority complex; roger the rooster and the chicks; hayman the loveable scarecrow who only speaks one word- hay! and the greenthumbs – real kids in real gardens having unreal fun.
dirtgirlworld invites the young audience to a place where the real and unreal hang out together. The series has a nature focus, contemporary and exciting music for children, and provides an invitation for people who want to grow with their children to step outside and start!
In dirtgirlworld we learn to care for what we love.
This Emmy award winning series rocks the planet. ...big time!
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about dirtgirlworld
dirtgirl is a gumboot-wearing girl
who grows awesome tomatoes, knows cloud names
and drives a big orange tractor.
dirtgirl’s backyard is full of friends.
Made from the heart for the 3- 6 year alpha generation,
dirtgirlworld is an animation/live action hybrid
blended with photomontage and illustration that takes the audience to a world
where real and unreal hang out together.
dirtgirlworld is a celebration of life outside.
It’s a place of bizarre insects, underground tunnels,
vaudevillian trained chickens
and performing stunt bugs.
Funky pop songs, guitars with attitude, beats, grooves and loops all blended with a tractor,
makeup the infectiously cool music in dirtgirlworld
This musicentric series explores the natural world and invites the audience to
‘go get grubby’ in the big world outside.
dirtgirlworld is a place where we find out that we protect what we love.
As dirtgirl says…’it’s all about balance’.
dirtgirlworld is distinctive!
It has a unique visual style, well crafted and creative storylines and a strong focus.
The musicentric and thematic approach to the narrative is celebrated ina beautiful and engaging environment.
It invites the audience to play and grow in a tactile and sensory world.
dirtgirl, her friends and her audience adventure together, solving problems whilst building dirtgirl’s world along the way.
As a character, dirtgirl, lives a life of balance and inspires the audience to
‘step outside and get grubby’ and bring balance to their world too.
dirtgirlworld is a place where we find out that we protect what we love.
awards!
dirtgirlworld has also received many amazing awards including….
Winner- 2013 EMMY - Digital - Children and Young People
Winner...Best Children's Animated Series 2010... AFI (Australian Film Institute Award)
Winner... Best Animation ... Australian Directors Guild ... 2010
Winner... GRASS... green screens award ADG... 2010
Winner ...Animation... Byron Bay International Film Festival 2011
Nominated for BAFTA... International Children's Production...Nov 2010
Finalist for 2010 Prix Jeunesse festival ... 0-5 yrs
Nominated for Outstanding Children's Production... Logie 2010
Chosen participant ... INPUT festival... Seoul 2011
Finalist for the JAPAN PRIZE 2012
Nominated for best kids 2011 and 2012 Aria for CD 'dig it!' and ‘dirtgirl rocks the planet’
Finalist for best pre-school animation in NY at the Kidscreen awards 2012
International Song Competition 2011…best kids song in the world ..’ every little drop’
What is dirtgirlworld like?
dirtgirlworld is like an orange!
dirtgirlworld is organically designed like an orange.
Unique, compact and sweet.
Peel the orange to reveal juicy segments.
Each segment is as important as the next.
They combine to create the whole orange.
Juiced, dried, or reconstituted an orange is always an orange.
It’s the perfect package.
So it is with dirtgirlworld.
TV, online, music, mobile devices, DVD, music video, podcasts, radio, books and licensing
all combine in perfect balance to create
an exciting, innovative, engaging and interactive world for content hungry children to devour.
