Minmi
If I change, will you still be there?
A twelve year old girl who just found out she is autistic tries to navigate pre-teen life with the help (or not) of her imaginary pet dinosaur.
Comedy Drama
2D Animation
8-12 / Tween
In Development
Most ankylosaurs (armoured dinosaurs) from the early Cretaceous period had large bony shields fused together, completely covering their back and sides to protect them. Some had additional spines and spikes to offer further defence from would be predators.
Minmi doesn’t have any of that, he’s soft. Like a squishmallow. He’s also imaginary, and is only visible, audible, tangible (and occasionally odorous) to Wallis. Wallis is 12. She just found out she’s autistic. Tomorrow is the beginning of the rest of her life.
Collaboration
Stefanie Preissner is an award winning writer for screen and stage, author, director and actor, best known as the creator of hit comedy-drama series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope. Her first book, Why Can’t Everything Just Stay the Same? was an Irish bestseller and nominated for an Irish Book Award. Stefanie was diagnosed as autistic in 2021, and is passionate about changing public perceptions about what it means to be autistic.
Stefanie has previously worked with Colm & Aidan on the award-winning podcast Surviving Ireland: The Digital Detox, and this represents her first venture into children’s animation.
