Racing Stripes
''Racing Stripes'' is a 2005 American sports comedy family film directed by Frederik Du Chau. The film was produced by Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Lloyd Phillips and Edward L. McDonnell, based on a script written by David Schmidt, Steven P. Wegner, Kirk DeMicco, and Du Chau. It was released theatrically on January 14, 2005, by Warner Bros. The film tells the story of Stripes, a circus plains zebra who is accidentally abandoned in Kentucky and raised on a farm next to a racing track. Believing he is a racehorse, Stripes dreams of training for and competing in the races. The film stars Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood, Wendie Malick and M. Emmet Walsh, with the vocal and voice talents of Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jeff Foxworthy, Joshua Jackson, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Snoop Dogg, Fred Dalton Thompson, Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg. The film received mixed reviews from critics and it earned $90 ...
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Frederik Du Chau
Frederik Du Chau (born 15 May 1965) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and animator. Career Du Chau attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent), Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown of Ghent, where he studied film and majored in animation under Raoul Servais. After graduation, he worked for Walt Disney Animation France and later as a freelance animator and directed several local commercials, combining live-action and animation. The selection of his student film, ''The Mystery of the Lamb'' (''Het mysterie van het lam''), for the Los Angeles Animation Celebration Conference brought him to Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood where he was offered a job as an animator and later as a visual development and storyboard artist for The Walt Disney Company, Disney, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios, Universal. Du Chau's break as a director came when Sony offered him to co-direct a short film with Hoyt Yeatman for Sony Wonder. This was followed with a stint as a storyboard artis ...
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