Grom’s Top Draw Animation Secures Assignment to Animate Bidaya Media’s Hit Series, Mansour

BOCA RATON, Fla., March 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Grom Social Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: GROM) (“Grom” or the “Company”), a media, technology and entertainment company dedicated to family-friendly programming, web filtering technology, and safe social media for kids, today announced that its subsidiary Top Draw Animation (“TDA”), a leading source of premium animation production services for programming shown throughout the world, will lend its animation expertise to season two of Mansour, the emerging animated hit series from Bidaya Media, the production team behind Iftah Ya Simsim, the Arabic language version of Sesame Street. The assignment was announced jointly today by TDA’s President, Russell Hicks, and Bidaya Media’s CEO, Nabil El Jisr.

“With rich characters, compelling storylines and top-shelf animation, Bidaya Media has crafted the perfect hit series,” said Hicks. “The dedicated animation experts and artists in our Manila studio are energized to bring season two of Mansour to its growing fan base as the series continues its upward climb. We are thrilled to secure another major win for Top Draw which continues to be a key growth driver for Grom.”

“We are proud to continue our collaboration with Top Draw on the second season of the Adventures of Mansour: Age of A.I. The work on the first season has been superb and we are very proud to have Top Draw continuing to deliver on this high quality production while navigating this ever-changing industry,” said Nabil El Jisr, CEO of Bidaya Media.

For Mansour, Top Draw will tap into its team of 400 animation pros to oversee production on the animated action adventure series about tech whiz Mansour and his friends as they confront a mischievous AI known as Blink who is intent on causing as much trouble as possible for Mansour and the people of his home city.

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