An animated children's series about culture, heritage, discovering identity and gaining self confidence.

1. An animated children’s series
about culture, heritage,
discovering identity and gaining
self-confidence.
JOURNEY OF THE
FRECKLED INDIAN
By Alyssa London

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SHOW SUMMARY
 A young mixed-race Alaska Native girl
from a suburb struggles to make sense of
her identity, which negatively impacts
her self-confidence.
 When her parents recognize this, they
have her spend time with her
grandfather.
 Through the episodes Freckles embarks on
an adventure of self-discovery.
Episodes are 20-30 min depending on
advertisement requirements

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FOCUS OF EPISODES
Freckles learns more about herself as she
learns about other kids’ cultures too
around her neighborhood, around the
country, and around the world!
 She is inspired by her friends and
classmates as they learn about and
share their culture and heritage as
well.
 Freckles finds connections between the
cultures of her friends with her own,
which inspires a feeling of
connectedness to them.
 She feels open to learning about hers
and other people’s cultures.

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MAIN CHARACTER: FRECKLES
 A 10 year old mixed race girl
who is curious, sensitive,
intelligent, friendly, and
strong-willed
 She is the ‘lead’ in this
story, but will often take a
back seat in an episode to
learn about a story of a
classmate or a friend
 She embodies the concept of
living in two worlds

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SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
KIDS GRANDPA PARENTS

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CHARACTERS (MYTHOLOGICAL)
Freckles has
mythological
interactions that are a
result of her active
dreaming mind, and also
from her cultural
beliefs.
These mythological
characters include:
Killerwhale, King
Salmon, Eagle and Raven

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AUDIENCE
Target Audience: Children 2nd grade to 6th
grade
 Children who like beautiful visuals,
adventure and learning new things about
cultures
 Families that want to bridge the
conversation about race & ethnicity
 Teachers that want to share about Native
American heritage and culture today, or
spark conversations about diversity and
acceptance
 There is accompanying curriculum to
this book and show

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BOOK CREATION TEAM
ALYSSA LONDON
AUTHOR
MONICA RICKERT-BOLTER
ILLUSTRATOR
PRESTON SINGLETARY
ARTIST
 Tlingit Tribe,
Czech, Norwegian
 AK/ WA/ LA based
 Stanford Grad
 Miss Alaska USA &
Top Ten Finalist
 Potawatomi,
African American,
and German descent
 Chicago Based
 Freelance Visual
Artist
 Tlingit
 Seattle Based
 World renowned
glass artist
 Northwest Coast
Formline Artist
 Musician

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ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION

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PROCESS FROM IDEATION TO VISUALS

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DISTRIBUTION
Goal: Seek partnership
with online streaming
platform
Potential Players:
 CBS/ Viacom
(Nickelodeon)
 Netflix
 Amazon Studios

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BUDGET ESTIMATE
$150k per episode x 5-8 episode for a pilot
season
$750k-1.2million for the first season
OR
$250k per episode x 5-8 episode for a pilot
season
$1.2 million-2 million for the first season

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CURRENT PRESS
KNKX, NPR’s All Things Considered