Yoko

On the run from an evil hunter, young yeti Yoko finds refuge in Pia's treehouse. Can Pia, who is heart-broken from her father's death, help Yoko return to his abominable snowman home before it's too late?

Category Children, Feature Film
Financing Minoritäre Koproduktion
Production DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H., MINI FILM ProKids-Kulturverein Filmproduktions KG
Format 35 mm, 102 Min
Release 17.02.2012
Distribution Sony Pictures Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions 79.799
Co-production Blue Eyes Fiction (DE), Deutsche Columbia Pictures Film (DE), B.A. Produktion (DE), Achte Babelsberg Film (DE), Fido Film (SE), Forest Light Studio (SE), Filmlance (SE)
International funding Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Filmfernsehfonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (DE), Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden Württemberg, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen

Details:

Script KNISTER, Gerrit Hermans, Claudia Boysen, Achim von Borries, Bettine von Borries
Director Franziska Buch, Noël Burch
DOP Jan Fehse
Editor Paul Sedlacek
Sound engineer Michael Eiler
Funding institutions Austria Filmfonds Wien, Filminstitut
Costume design Birgit Hutter
Set design Uwe Szielasko, Alexandra Maringer
Cast Jamie Bick (Pia), Tobias Moretti (Van Sneider), Friedrich Heine (Lukas), Jessica Schwarz (Katja), Lilly Reulein (Marcella)
Production manager George Hiller, Thomas Konrad
Television investment ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), svt - Sveriges Television AB
Film location Germany, Vienna, Tyrol
Shooting time August 2010 - January 2011
Completion Spring 2012
Producer Austria Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
International distribution Telepool
Approximate cinema release 17.02.2012