NASSAU, Bahamas – LFD Productions right this moment introduced its historic collaboration with Future Right now’s streaming service, HappyKids. The award-winning youngsters’s tv sequence “Goombay Youngsters,” an LFD Productions sequence filmed within the Bahamas, is ready to revolutionize youngsters’s tv by changing into the first-ever scripted, live-action Caribbean sequence to safe a global streaming service deal.
Solid members on the season three premiere of Goombay Youngsters in The Bahamas
“Goombay Kids” is now accessible to over 16 million month-to-month lively customers on Roku, Amazon FireTV, Apple TV and Android gadgets. When it launched in 2020, “Goombay Youngsters” solidified its place in Caribbean historical past as the primary narrative youngsters’s tv present filmed and produced fully within the Bahamas to get a North American streaming deal. The present went on to win 13 worldwide awards together with the Cannes World Movie Pageant for Finest TV Sequence and Finest Producer — greater than some other Caribbean youngsters’s present so far.
“Goombay Youngsters is not only a tv present, we like to think about it as a motion that empowers youngsters by means of studying and celebrates that connecting with one’s tradition ought to be shared far past your nation,” mentioned Stephanie Okay. Nihon, creator and govt producer of ‘Goombay Youngsters’ and founding father of LFD Productions. “Impressed by youngsters, for youths, this present highlights epic island adventures all through the islands of the Bahamas, whereas delicately educating them on modern-day points going through the world – ladies and youth empowerment, local weather change and variety and incapacity inclusion – in a contemporary and dynamic means.
Illustration of Kids of Caribbean Descent
Goombay Youngsters creator Stephanie Nihon (heart) and producers Leslie Ellis Tynes and Rowena Poiter Sutherland.
“In a world the place animation dominates youngsters’s content material, we’re dropping the human ingredient that’s essential to understanding who we’re and the place we got here from. We’re thrilled to have the present on a platform like HappyKids that can enable us to additional the attain of ‘Goombay Youngsters’ and higher symbolize youngsters of Caribbean descent whereas selling the variety and wealthy tradition of the islands,” added Nihon.
“Goombay Youngsters” was the primary Bahamian youngsters’s present to make use of VFX Animation and live-action hybrid in a tv sequence. HappyKids brings the present’s mix of leisure, training and cultural appreciation to audiences worldwide, revolutionizing up to date youngsters’s tv. It’s famend for its adherence to COPPA compliance and its high quality management measures to make sure child-appropriate content material. The present has supplied employment to greater than 350 Bahamians, making it a supply of nationwide satisfaction within the nation and garnering important help from the federal government.
“’Goombay Youngsters’ is a novel sequence that we imagine will present our viewers with a chance to see youngsters in extremely artistic tales whereas exploring the great thing about the Bahamas and Caribbean cultures,” David Di Lorenzo, SVP Youngsters & Household, Future Right now.
With character dialogue and actions that foster empathetic and resilient people, the present encompasses values and messaging which might be hardly ever used within the youngsters’s tv trade right this moment. Incorporating themes of emotional intelligence, teamwork and problem-solving, “Goombay Youngsters” equips youngsters with invaluable instruments for private development and growth whereas taking them on a cultural journey by means of historical past, arts and surroundings. The present is ready to premier its fourth season in early 2024, promising new adventures for viewers.
“I’m happy with the achievements of all of the Bahamian solid and crew of the tv sequence ‘Goombay Youngsters,’” mentioned Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis. “Their success on the Cannes World Film Festival, capturing prime awards, speaks volumes of the flexibility of Bahamians to thrive within the worldwide area. I’m significantly enthusiastic about the way forward for an Orange Financial system that seeks to offer correct area and compensation for the performing arts.”
This monumental North American streaming deal is a testomony to the present’s common attraction and transformative impression. Because it continues to captivate younger hearts throughout the Caribbean and past, “Goombay Youngsters” has turn into a motion that’s set to reshape the way forward for youngsters’s tv.