On the margins of a mad world, three outsiders manage to keep their sanity. A man, a woman and a pig. Yes, a pig. This is Lola, Pig & Paco, the new Undodez animation project, which has been in development for nearly a year and is now heading to Cartoon Forum in Toulouse.
The project, created by Xosé A. Touriñán, Xosé Castro and Andrés Mahía, and developed by Lucía Rodríguez (direction) and Laura Mahía (screenwriting), aims to become the first adult animation series entirely produced in Galicia and in the Galician language. A comedy that seeks to observe contemporary society through a transgressive, original and critical lens.
Paco is almost thirty and does not know what to do with his life. Lola is his ex-partner and now friend, an ambitious, intelligent woman with little patience for people who spend ten hours playing video games. Pig, Paco’s best friend and companion, is a pig. A talking pig who smokes, drinks, and also plays video games. But still, a pig.
Three friends in a small village along the Camino de Santiago. Far from centres of power, far from cultural and social trends, far from humanitarian crises… far from everything. And yet, the unstable world shaped by new politics, environmental awareness, “woke” culture, fleeting radicalisms and artificial intelligence increasingly becomes part of their lives.
Presentation at Cartoon Forum
This Thursday, Andrés Mahía, one of the project’s creators, and Laura Pazienza, production director of Undodez’s animation division, will present Lola, Pig & Paco at Cartoon Forum in Toulouse. Only six Spanish projects have been selected for this French market, one of the most important events in the animation industry, where they will be pitched to nearly three hundred buyers from up to forty countries, including production companies and broadcasters. More than a thousand professionals from around the world are attending the event.
Undodez has been developing the series for nearly a year with funding from the Xunta de Galicia through the audiovisual development grants of the Galician Agency for Cultural Industries (AGADIC). Alberto Díaz and Álvaro Pérez Becerra serve as executive producers, and composers and sound post-producers Santi Jul and Iván Laxe are responsible for the project’s sound design. David Perdomo, Xosé A. Touriñán and Marita Martínez lend their voices to the characters in the presentation teaser.