Handico

Handico is an animated series, directed by Pauline Brunner and Maxime Gridelet and aired on Lumni FR, the educational platform of France Télévisions as welle as on RTS.

The series features Will (hero of the 2D animated series Will, itself adapted from the French comic strip Schumi by Zidrou and E411), published by Editions Paquet, and takes the young viewer into a stop-motion universe to help understand what disabilities are.

Synopsis

Will, 9 years old, has the life of any child his age. With one difference: he is in a wheelchair. In Handico, Will answers the questions that children have about disabilities.

In season 1, he simply explains, in a graphic and poetic way, autism, paraplegia, Down's syndrome, visual impairment... So many words and troubles that children can be confronted with, and that the series allows them to better understand. Season 2 deals with invisible disabilities, such as ADHD or disabling diseases like diabetes or epilepsy. These are conditions that children are likely to know about because they or their loved ones have them.

Credit

Director: Pauline Brunner, Maxime Gridelet

Literary Bible: Virginie Boda, Jérôme Nougarolis

Graphic bible: Pauline Brunner, Maxime Gridelet, Régis Vidal

Production company: Cross River

Line producer: Jérôme Nougarolis

Writing direction: Virginie Boda, Marion Verlé

Writers : Marion Verlé, Virginie Boda, Jacob Henry, Marion Gallavardin, Olivier Bardy, Nathalie Mars, Jean-Michel Mézy, Maud Garnier, Isabelle De Catalogne

Consulting doctors : Laetitia Houx, Johanne Mensah, Christelle Pons, Clotilde Huzar

Production manager: Laurence Barret

Production coordinators: Déborah Da Cruz, Zoé Guiet

Production assistants: Jacob Henry, Lola Oval

Direction of the developments : Virginie Boda

Production administration: Michel Dutheil, Armelle Couprie

Storyboard design, layout and editing: Pauline Brunner, Maxime Gridelet

Animation and compositing: Samy Tichadou, Antoine Bieber (assisted by Léo Brinkmann)

Director of photography : Elvis Gygi

Music : Michel Gouty, Editions Amour Passion

Sound design and mixing : Badje Auditoriums

Social media editor : Gwenegann Barreau

International sales: Superights

Characters

Will : Paraplegic from birth, Will is a wheelchair user with a disability in his lower limbs. This does not prevent him from living at full speed. Smart, resourceful, hyperactive, creative, he is a born chatterbox. Curious, passionate, he is always trying to understand, loves to try new things and share what he discovers. There are so many interesting things to discover…

Handy : Animated in stop-motion, Handy draws, glues, scrunches, cuts... Everything that can help to understand better the handicap told by Will.

Episodes

S01E01 - Para and Tetraplegia

S01E02 - Autism

S01E03 - The Visually Impaired and the Blind

S01E04 - Deafness

S01E05 - Down Syndrome

S01E06 - Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysphasia, etc.

S01E07 - Psychoses

S01E08 - Malformations

S01E09 - Myopathy

S01E10 - Brittle Bone Disease

S01E11 - Cystic Fibrosis

S01E12 - Phobias

S02E01 - Diabetes

S02E02 - Epilepsy

S02E03 - Bulimia-Anorexia

S02E04 - ADHD

S02E05 - OCD

S02E06 - Depression

S02E07 - Hemophilia

S02E08 - Scoliosis

S02E09 - Asthma

S02E10 - Heart Disease

S02E11 - Premature Birth

S02E12 - Rheumatoid Arthritis