Irish production company Indee Productions – which recently rebranded as Paper Owl Films – has landed a plum contract with BBC channel CBeebies for its children’s animated series ‘Pablo’.

The company is headquartered in Belfast and was established in 2012 by Letterkenny woman Grainne McGuinness, alongside business partners Gavin Halpin (also from Letterkenny) and Stephen Petticrew.

Pablo is the first children’s series to be made about a character on the autism spectrum. Paper Owl Films will be producing the show alongside Kaveleer Productions, which is based in Dublin.

Paper Owl’s other work includes a range of documentaries as well as commercial, corporate and children’s content for various platforms.

Grainne McGuinness, MD of Paper Owl Films, said that it had been an exciting journey for the firm since it was started around the dining room table three years ago.

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“We’re thrilled to be working alongside CBeebies on this project and we’ve also been very lucky to have been commissioned to make a number of programmes, including factual documentaries for BBC NI and TG4.”

McGuinness added: “Autism is very common and the official figure in Ireland is every one in 100 people. Pablo is a loveable five-year-old boy who uses his magic crayons to turn the challenges he faces into adventures helping him deal with the world with confidence.”

Paper Owl Films principals Grainne McGuiness, Gavin Halpin (left) and Stephen Petticrew