The man behind last year's biggest Sundance success story, "March of the Penguins" director Luc Jacquet, said that his follow-up will be "The Fox & the Child," a project combining nature documentary footage and a fictionalized story says The Hollywood Reporter.

The $13 million-plus film is scheduled for a yearlong shoot beginning in March and aiming for a December 2007 completion date. Production will take place in France, Italy and Romania.

"Fox" centers on a young girl and her friendship with the eponymous animal. An adult female narrator will relate the tale as a memoir of her childhood.