A world of AGS
Built to be understood
in a hundred years.
History, governance, standard, leadership.
Institution
A philosophy without a mechanism does not survive growth.
This page is the mechanism. It exists so that in fifty years, with hundreds of people working inside this universe, there is still a clear way to decide what belongs to AGS and what does not.
What lives here
History
Where the practice came from, before the institution existed.
Governance
Who may approve what, and on what evidence.
The standard
Eight dimensions every work is measured against.
Leadership
Who is accountable for the law.
Press
Answers, rather than a folder.
Careers
Open roles appear here when they exist.
Partners
Co-production, distribution, publishing, institutions.
The standard
Excellence is a form of respect.
For the time of the person who chose us, for the intelligence of children, for the artists who make the work, and for the people whose real lives we tell.
Script
Every scene performs a function.
Characters
Human depth before design.
Art direction
Every colour helps tell the story, or it goes.
Animation
Movement communicates truth, not spectacle.
Music
The score tells the story.
Research
Fundamental facts respected without exception.
Educational experience
It awakens questions, never obligation.
Production
Respect for collective work, in the contracts too.
A single “no” means the work is not finished. It does not mean it is rejected.
Governance
Who approves
Nothing enters production without passing the review. Final responsibility sits with creative direction — not with a committee, and not with commercial consensus.
Difficult cases
Where a historical figure’s legacy includes documented harm, inclusion requires an explicit, documented review before production. Never one writer, never under schedule pressure.
What cannot change
The law of shared discovery, and the creative laws that follow from it.
What can
Standards and operating criteria, against one test: does the change strengthen the law, or only make it more comfortable to comply with?
Diversity, as a requirement
Applied when characters are chosen, never as a correction afterwards.
Succession
The document is written to be applied by people who never met its author.
Trading name
AGS
Constitution
Thirteen chapters, closed
Audience
Children of six to ten, and the adults with them
Held by
Creative direction, accountable for the law
Leadership
Axel García Stur
Founder
Two decades playing the piano in front of children, across Europe and Latin America. Years directing public conservatories where other people learn to play. Creator of the school concert programme this house grew out of.
Working with us
Press
Production art, the manifesto and a factual summary, on request. We would rather answer a question than send a folder.
Careers
The house is deliberately small. Open roles will be listed here when they exist. Until then, tell us what you would refuse to compromise on.
Partners
Co-production, distribution, publishing, institutions and schools. The house works from Paris, in three languages.
The rule that governs this world
Could this decision have been made by any other studio in the world?
If the answer is yes, it is not yet an AGS decision. That question survives every reorganisation of this house, and it is the one we apply to a script, a character, a piece of merchandising and a partnership alike.
Where this stands
Before AGS
Verified history
Two decades of playing for children, and years directing public conservatories.
Concert halls, classrooms and institutions across Europe and Latin America.
The origin
Verified history
A theatre, a piano, and one question.
Didactic concerts for children who had never been inside a concert hall. Since 2014, in Argentina and Mexico: over 2,500 performances, more than two thousand schools, and more than a million spectators, according to the press.
Today
Present
A creative constitution, a universe, and the first work.
Thirteen chapters, closed until the first work is finished.
Ten years from now
Horizon
An institution working with schools, cities and studios in several languages.
Stated as intention, not as forecast.
A hundred years from now
Horizon
A method that no longer needs its founders.
The only measure this house accepts as final.
An invitation
Press, partnerships, and the people who will hold this after us.