LOOKING FOR WONDERLAND 
 

So far but so near. This is the fantastic world of Alice, a non-existent place which incredibly looks like the one we know, peopled with mad characters who strangely resemble us. The young protagonist of our stories lives all alone in this world at all bewitched but yet amazing. 

Alice is not in Wonderland, even if she would like to be. No queens of hearts and crazy hatters then, but a crowd of small creatures, talking animals, good night gnomes ready to tell worrying stories, synthetic beauties and unusual fellow-travellers, against a bare and silent background which does not exist, where you can sleep at night and take a rest during the day. 

Alice’s world is not a perfect one: it is a new land, close and huge at the same time, a land to explore and to conquer, a place where you can have extraordinary surprises as well as bitter deceptions, full of amusing, dreadful, worrying, painful things. This place looks very much like life’s stage: and, as a good actress, Alice can either play the role of the protagonist or simply walk-on.  

Here are Alice’s stories; in short 6 minutes episodes, happy, sad, cynical, touching, ruthless, bad and good events alternate: tiny foreshortenings over an incomprehensible world which resembles the one where we live. 

Alice is not a passive onlooker: she observes, comments, discusses, sometimes judges, rarely condemns. In short single acts she takes into consideration her lifestyle, which is also ours. 

Personal relationships, loves, friends, daily life, television from its worse point of view, with all its meanness; Alice is not only this: the pursuit of happiness, the sense of life, the "who are we", "where do we come from", "why do we queue in the cold to enter a full up night club" are some of the questions Alice will try to find an answer to...but she will have hard luck. 

Quick tales, witty cues, meddlesome characters and a protagonist at all distressed by protagonism mania: these are some of the ingredients of "Alice".  

Go and meet her. 

L’author Silvia Ziche is one of the most popular and appreciated Italian scenarists, eclectic author able to range from children-strip cartoons to political satire. 

From 1987 to 1991 she writes and draws short stories for the magazine "Linus" and in 1989 she starts to collaborate with Maurizio Minoggio, co-author of the texts of cartoons realized for the satirical weekly magazine "Cuore" and for the popular agenda "Smemoranda". 

Her collaboration with The Walt Disney Company starts in 1989. 

FARMTOONS is ready to start productionson a tv series of 52 episodes for 6 minutes each. The project was submited to "Media Desk" .