Gutsy Animations partners with Lime Pictures for psychological drama ‘Beyond Nature’

Gutsy Animations is developing its first adult-targeted drama series Beyond Nature and has brought UK production company Lime Pictures (Hollyoaks) on board to co-produce. Currently in development, the 6 x 50’ English-language psychological drama will blend live-action with VFX and CG animation. Gutsy Animations has also attached writers Jessica Ruston (Harlots, Young Wallander), Kevin Rundle (Casualty, EastEnders) and Phoebe Éclair-Powell (Two Weeks to Live, Hollyoaks) to the project.

Based on Katariina Souri’s novel Pohjan Kosketus, Beyond Nature is created by Gutsy Animations’ Chief Creative Officer and Founder, Marika Makaroff, and Paavo Westerberg (‘The Violin Player’). The series is set to be shot between England and Lapland.

The innovative, powerful psychological drama will follow Stella, a young Finno-British artist, as she searches for her true self, and her family’s past. Set against the ancient magical traditions and wilderness of the far North, and the urban landscapes of Britain, the drama explores the alienation of humans from the natural world of which we are all part.

When Stella leaves the UK and returns to her family roots in Finland to sell her childhood home, the fabric of her inner life begins to shift and change. She experiences visions which seem connected to the vast, ancient natural landscape of Lapland and its mythological past, and which invade her art. Predictions, or perhaps warnings, propel Stella into unravelling a dark mystery in which to survive, she must confront, and connect with, her true nature.