SA involved in International TV Series Quarx

After 20 years of making top-rating science programmes for the international market, Screen Glues Jasper James has decided it's time to break the laws of nature. With his latest project Quarx, James brings a completely original spin on science education by tackling physics and biology as they've never been done before. James describes the series a mischievous science-fuelled romp for the you-tube generation.

The series of short films are in the style of video blogs made by three teenage pranksters with super-powers, which they use to alter the laws of physics. Visual effects capture the chaos they cause as they create black holes, giant insects and even make everyone indestructible. Says James: Quarx is so madly ambitious that it shouldnt have been possible to fund it. The scripts are so outlandish that it shouldnt have been possible to make it. But Quarx is all about bending the rules and thats what we did. We're doing it thanks to the backing of a unprecedented roster of partners - not just broadcasters but also the EBU, the South African Department of Trade and Industry and the most pioneering scientific body of them all - CERN.

And thanks big time to the true hand-in-glove partnership Screen Glue has with the production team at Fortfuflash in Johannesburg headed by Matsobane Lebelo. They've delivered the impossible and very clearly proved one thing - South Africa has talent.

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Says Rebecca Fuller-Campbell Executive Producer of the series in South Africa, We are very excited to be a part of Quarx, which is a wonderfully weird project aimed at science edu-tainment. Proudly, the entire team has gone that extra mile to push the limits of what is possible and the results are amazing.

Quarx is a truly international show. The characters, scenarios and visual humour all have a universal appeal and the video-blog style allows for easy versioning with stories driven by voiceover and dialogue behind the character's own cameras.

Quarx was originally conceived for a science broadcasting competition run by CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research - think the Large Hadron Collider!) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The first series has already been presold to CuriosityStream in the US, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, SRF (Switzerland), RTBF (Belgium), France Televisions, SVT Sweden and CT (Czech Republic) and is very proudly supported by the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The series was directed by Cremer Van Dango and James Tovell and written by Jasper James, James Tovell and Rob Hockley.

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