Juan Manuel Tumburús
Founder – Creative Producer
tumbu@picanteok.com
+54 9 11 59 91 51 85
Fernando D Tumburús
Producer – Founder
fer@picanteok.com
+54 9 11 40 31 24 54
Born in the bowels of Buenos Aires. Forged by the heat of screens. Fed on fiction. Guided by the drive/impulse to create 2D content. Found guilty of committing audiovisual services. Predestined to gestate/develop unique visions. We are excellence. We are the natural predator of the killjoys. We are animation. We are Picante
Nacidos en las entrañas de Buenos Aires. Forjados por el calor de las pantallas. Alimentados a base de ficción. Guiados por la pulsión de crear contenido 2D. Declarados culpables de cometer servicios audiovisuales. Predestinados a gestar visiones únicas. Somos excelencia. Somos el depredador natural del aguafiestas. Somos animación. Somos PICANTE.
Current projects looking for co-production
WITCHCRAFT
Series – In development – 8 x 11 min
Director: Juan Manuel Tumburús
Script: Gaston Viñas
Technique: CutOut 2d animation
Genre: Comedy – Adventure
Target: +9 years old
Budget: USD 1.118.000
Confirmed Budget: USD 59.400 / 5%
Financing: Blu Animation
Looking for: Partners – Coproduction – Investors
WitchCraft is a cut-out animated series project that tells the adventures of 3 young and inexperienced witches who mistakenly turn their mentor into a toad and must take over the potions business that she ran. The series premise on the clichés of medieval fantasy and role-playing video games, MOBAS and MMORPG to narrate their misadventures in a humorous tone.
ULTRA MEGA NOOB
Series – In development – 8 x 11 min
Director: Juan Manuel Tumburús
Script: Gaston Viñas
Technique: CutOut 2d animation
Genre: Parody – Comedy – Action
Target: +9 years old
Budget: USD 1.118.000
Confirmed Budget: USD 59.400 / 5%
Looking for: Partners – Coproduction – Investors
The city is being attacked by giant monsters! Luckily The Earth has a weapon to reject them: UltraMegaNOOB! A huge robot piloted by… Three awkward kids still learning how to tie their own shoe laces and still learning how to be fully capable of controlling it.
This series is the perfect balance of action between mechas and kaijus, school bullying, secret identities, absurd humor and fake final lessons.
NADIA & THE NOMOBOTS
Series – In development – 8 x 22 min
Director: Juan Manuel Tumburús
Script: Diego Agrimbau
Technique: CGI + 2D VFX animation
Genre: Action – Drama – SciFi
Target: +18 years old
Budget: USD 3.520.000
Confirmed Budget: USD 70.000 / 2 %
Looking for: Partners – Coproduction – Investors
The project is based on the comic Nomobots published in Argentina and USA, written by D. Agrimbau and drawn by J. Tumburús. Our desire is to bring to the screen this urban dystopia that uses action as a vector, while questioning us as a society too / while also questioning us as a society.
Logline: In a world dominated by robots addicted to pills thar recreate humans emotions, Nadia Nomo has escaped from her confinement and has the key to start a revolution.