Pop Sandbox

Factsheet

Developer:
Pop Sandbox
Based in Toronto, Ontario

Founding date:
2009

Website:
popsandbox.com

Press / Business contact:
alex@popsandbox.com

Social:
twitter.com/LOUDonPlanetX
facebook.com/LOUDonPlanetX
Skype

Releases:
LOUD On Planet X

Address:
127 Oakwood Ave
Toronto, ON M6H 2W2
Canada

Phone:
1.416.886.5234

Description

Pop Sandbox is an award-winning small studio based in Toronto Canada. Pop Sandbox brings together top practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines into a creative environment that fosters innovation in both content and form. Over the past 5 years, we have worked with a diverse group of filmmakers, artists, journalists, social workers, technologists, playwrights, animators, composers, game designers, activists and musicians on groundbreaking graphic novel, film, videogame and interactive experiences.

History

Pipe Trouble

A high-profile mobile game that uses over-the-top satire to prompt mainstream discussion surrounding ongoing issues related to the exploitation of natural gas. Featured at the Cannes Film Festival, Games for Change, Hot Docs, Indiecade East, and SXSW.

KENK: A Graphic Portrait

A best-selling 300-page journalistic comic book surrounding “the world’s most prolific bicycle thief” (The New York Times) that is currently being developed into a fully animated film. #1 Graphic novel on amazon.ca, Book of the Year – Quill and Quire.

The Next Day

A groundbreaking interactive animated documentary and companion graphic novel based on real interviews with 4 survivors of near fatal suicide attempts. Selected for The New York Times Reading List, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam.

Projects

• LOUD On Planet X

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Contact

Alex Jansen - Creative Producer
alex@popsanbox.com

Tanya Van Luven - Marketing Manager
tanya@popsandbox.com

Alex Van Lepp, VIM Global - Games Industry Publicist
avanlepp@vimglobal.com

Brendan Bourke - Music Industry Publicist
brendan@canvasmediapr.com