A NEXFRAME STUDIOS PRODUCTION
We adapt children's books into cinematic animated short films — voiced, scored, and delivered in Full HD or 4K. From picture books to chapter novels, every story gets the screen treatment it was always meant to have.
TRUSTED BY PUBLISHERS. CHOSEN BY AUTHORS.
A children's book is not a static object. It is a world with characters who move, voices that carry, music that lives just beneath the words, and scenes that were always waiting for a wider frame.
BookFilms.TV is an animation studio that takes books seriously. We adapt manuscripts — illustrated or text-only, picture books or short novels — into complete cinematic animated short films. Not slideshows. Not page-turns with background music. Films. With screenplay structure, lip-synced dialogue, original instrumental scores, and the kind of visual craft that makes a story impossible to forget.
The buyers of books are increasingly the watchers of screens. We build the bridge.
PRODUCTION TIERS
Five production tiers. Transparent pricing. The same cinematic standard across every one.
$999
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Spark
The opening act
~2 minutes
Full HD
1 week
Spotlight
The full introduction
~3.5 minutes
Full HD
2 weeks
$1,799
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Showreel
The versatile standard
~5 minutes
Full HD
3 weeks
$2,499
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Feature
The publisher's asset
~10 minutes
4K
1 month
$4,999
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Premiere
The complete adaptation
~20 minutes
4K
2 months
$9,999
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Enterprise and publisher volume pricing available. Contact us
EVERY FILM INCLUDES
FULL SCREEN ADAPTATION
Every manuscript is restructured for film — narrative passages become scenes, scenes become cinema.
LIP-SYNCED CHARACTER DIALOGUE
Every speaking role receives a distinct voice, matched to the character and timed to the frame.
ORIGINAL SCORE & SOUND DESIGN
Each film receives a composed instrumental score and full sound design — built for the story, not borrowed from a library.
EIGHT ANIMATION STYLES
Keep your book's original illustration style or choose from eight established animation approaches — at no additional cost.
ANIMATION STYLES
Every style is a creative decision, not a technical limitation. Choose the look your book was always meant to wear — or let us preserve the one it already has.
CHILDREN'S PCITURE BOOK • PASTORAL ANIMATION STYLE
This is what we mean when we say adaptation. Every scene in this film began as a manuscript — words on a page, characters in a writer's imagination. What you're watching is not an illustration that moves. It is a film that was written, directed, and scored from the ground up, faithful to the story's emotional core and built to hold an audience that watches with the same attention they bring to cinema.
FEATURED FILM
THE PROCESS
YOU ORDER & SUBMIT
Choose your production tier, complete the intake form, and provide your manuscript and any existing illustrations.
WE BUILD THE STORYBOARD
The studio develops a full film adaptation storyboard with character reference sheets. You review and approve before production begins.
FULL PRODUCTION
Animation, voice recording, score composition, and sound design — all produced in sequence and assembled into a finished film.
DELIVERY & FINAL REVIEW
Your completed film is delivered via cloud storage for final review. One revision included. Your files are yours, commercially, without restriction.
We've spent years looking for a studio that treats a children's book with the same creative rigor a studio brings to a feature film. BookFilms.TV is that studio. The adaptation of our title stopped our editorial team in their tracks.
Sarah J.
MARKETING DIRECTOR, HORIZON PRESS
I didn't know what to expect. What arrived was a short film. A real one — scored, voiced, and directed. My book looked like it had always been meant for the screen.
Michael Vance
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Elena R.
ACQUISITIONS EDITOR
The turnaround was faster than we anticipated and the quality was significantly above what we'd seen from comparable services. This is now a standard part of how we launch illustrated titles.
A NEXFRAME STUDIOS PRODUCTION
BookFilms.TV is the animated film division of NexFrame Studios — a visual production house built for the publishing industry. Our sister studio, BookTrailers.TV, has produced cinematic book trailers for authors and publishers across every genre. BookFilms.TV carries that same production standard into long-form animated storytelling.
We exist because the distance between a great children's book and a great children's film has always been smaller than the industry assumed. We close it.
From manuscript to trailer in as little as one week. No illustrations required.
Your story, on screen.
Book Films TV is a production of NexFrame Studios
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