Frederik Du Chau

Frederik Du Chau

Frederik Du Chau studied at the film department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in his native Belgium from 1984 to 1988.  He simultaneously travelled the world as a camera assistant for several major European news organisations until his graduation from film school, when he worked as an animator/director for television and commercials in Europe.

In 1989, his short film, “The Mystery of The Lamb”, was selected for the Los Angeles Animation Celebration film festival, which brought him to the United States.  At the Baer animation Studio in Los Angeles, he worked as an animator on numerous commercials, which featured animation combined with live action.  He then co-directed the animation/live action short film “Sony Wonder” (with Hoyt Yeatman of Dreamquest) for Sony Pictures and directed the animation for the direct to video hit “Land Before Time: Time of the Great Living” for Universal Pictures.

In 1998, he directed the feature animation film “Quest for Camelot” for Warner Bros.  This film received a Vision Award For Best Picture in 1999.

He also directed a pilot presentation for Forest Whitaker’s Spirit Dance Entertainment entitled “Stripped”, for which he created a new look that turns live action into animation in real time.

In 2000, Frederik, along with Kirk DeMicco, wrote “Hong Kong Phooey” – a live action comedy about a Kung Fu fighting dog, based on the popular Hanna-Barbera cartoon.  This project was sold to Alcon Entertainment and set-up at Warner Bros.

Also with Kirk DeMicco, he wrote “Sky Boys” in 2002.  “Sky Boys” is a drama about two Irish brothers who fall in love with the same woman while building the Empire State Building.  The script was sold to Roberts Filmed Entertainment Inc.

More recently Frederik was in South Africa, directing ‘Racing Stripes’, an Alcon/Warner Brothers production produced by Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Ed McDonnell and Lloyd Phillips.

CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT

  • LEANING GIRL (Director/Writer) Based on the character developed by Francois Schuiten & Benoit Peeters
  • SKY BOYS    (Creator/Writer: optioned by Roberts Filmed Entertainment Inc)

BIOGRAPHY

  • RACING STRIPES  (Director/Writer), Alcon Entertainment
  • STRIPPED (Director), pilot presentation for Spirit Dance Entertainment
  • QUEST FOR CAMELOT (Director), Warner Bros. (Vision Award For Best Picture 1999)
  • THE SNOWMAN WHO WANTED TO SEE SPRINGTIME (Creator), Warner Bros.
  • LAND BEFORE TIME, THE TIME OF THE GREAT GIVING (Animation Director), Universal Pictures
  • BARNABY SCRATCH (Feature film development) Chuck Jones productions
  • THE SINGING NIGHTINGALE  (Feature film development), Disney Television Animation 
  • THE BAER ANIMATION COMPANY (Animator), Worked on numerous commercials, television specials and features for a variety of clients.  (The Walt Disney Company, Tony the Tiger, Pancho Pantera, Night at the Oscars, The Last Action Hero….)

    Animator/Director for commercials in Brussels, Belgium.  Live action/animation combination, MTV London promo, etc.  Orion fitness ad won 1st prize Waregem Film Festival (Belgium).

  • SUSKE AND WISKE (Animator), Atelier 5, Children’s Television
  • TALESPIN Animator), Walt Disney Animation, France
  • THE SNOWY’S Directing Animator) Twinkle Star Productions, Belgium
  • SMOGGLES  (Animator), France Animation, Paris
  • THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB (Writer/Director/Student film), official selection third Animation Celebration of Los Angeles and the Flanders Film festival.

    Military service at the film department.  Worked on a variety of recruiting and instructional films using live action, special effects and animation.

    Camera Assistant for ENG, VIDEOHOUSE, Brussels.  Travelled the world covering news.

    Graduated with a Masters degree in animation from the film school at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium.