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KOA Production & RPM Media

Royi Akavia

Roberto Mitrotti

Producers about our exciting project, “Shu.” We previously discussed the potential collaboration for the feature film,  founded by two award-winning media-arts professionals, Roberto Mitrotti and Royi Akavia.

Akavia, a native of Israel, and the U.S. and now a resident of Japan, Is an artist, animator, and director of animation with over 30 years　of professional experience working In animation and painting techniques.

Mitrotti, a native of Italy and a U.S. citizen residing in Los Angeles is an artist, writer, and filmmaker with three decades of experience working at the confluence of film, television, digital media, art, and fashion.

The Companys is producing an original animated children’s feature film, Shu And the Resistance. After the feature’s completion, the plan is to develop a TV series about one of the major health issues facing children in the United States and across the globe – excessive consumption of sugar and sugar-based food products.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports in the U.S. that in 2015-2016 obesity affected nearly one-in-seven (14%) of children aged 2-5 years and nearly one in five (18%) of children aged 6-11 years. (More than one in three [35%] adults are considered obese.) These figures are even greater in developing countries.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db82.pdf

Royi Akavia is an artist and animator and director of animation,

In 2014 founded a Japanese company KOA Production KK. A production company that develops concept motion graphics studio specializes in 2D and 3D storytelling for Tv series and future films. Royi’s art has been displayed in museums and galleries throughout the world and is part of the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Norton Museum in Palm Beach Florida.

Akavia was appointed official artist for Western Unions’ ambitious Y2K painting project and was one of eight artists commissioned to paint an 8′ x 4′canvas featured at Woodstock ’99. He performed art direction for MYV Besch House in Holland and set designs for several projects for MTV Europe. He was a set designer for the MTV Latino Movie Awards nomination in Miami Beach, Florida.

In 2005 Royi founded “Little Director”, an animation company enabling children to bring their drawings to life.  Akavia has been featured on the PBS show Sunny Side Up by Sprout.   Royi contributes his experience in early childhood education to the “Move to Learn Apps” Cloud Lab management team with Columbia University in New York.

Roberto Mitrotti is an artist, and filmmaker working at the confluence of film, art, and fashion.

He had one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Zurich, Turin, and Florence and has shown in over 50 museums worldwide. In 1998 he exhibited along with David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg in “Pools ” in Moscow, the first exhibition of American artists in Russia since the Revolution.

Was a consultant to Director Michael Mann in the creation of the “Look” for Universal Television’s “Miami Vice”.

Founded RPM Media to produce TV programs seen in over 20 countries.  Co-wrote the Twentieth Century Fox comedy “The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud” with Carol Kane, Bud Cort, and Klaus Kinsky.  Directed the PBS doc “Sylvia’s Path” produced by Bill Cosby. Produced and hosted the series “The Compulsive Traveler” on CBS TV from 2002 to 2007.

In 2015 he wrote and directed “Stealing Chanel”, a romantic comedy starring Lydia Hearst, which won Best Director and Best Actress at the Manhattan Film Festival in 2015 and is in worldwide distribution with A&E Television.