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Conditions of admission and regulations

Cartoon Movie is organised with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and is specially developed for European animation film projects. The conditions for participation are as follows:

The project must be:

1. An animation film

• Full animation + live action combinations are eligible
  (minimum 50% animation)
• Cinema quality
• All new animation techniques are accepted
  
  

2. European

• Produced and initiated by a European filmmaker (from a country associated with the MEDIA Programme of the European Union: the 27 EU countries + Croatia, Switzerland and the 3 EEA countries: Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein).
• Made in Europe for the European producer’s share.
• The animation project must come from a European cooperation between a minimum of 2 European countries (that of the executive producer and 1 other country). The cooperation is understood in the widest sense of the term and can include cooperation with producers, authors, filmmakers, studios and financial partners, resident in one of the countries associated with the MEDIA Programme.
• Respecting a European quota of 14 points out of 21, following the below distribution (the after-specified number of points can be added if the related item is made in Europe) :
  
  

Conception	1 pt
Script	2 pts
Character design	2 pts
Music Composition	1 pt
Directing	2 pts
Storyboard	2 pts
Chief Decorator	1 pt
Computer backgrounds	1 pt
Layout	2 pts
50% of expenses for animation in Europe	2 pts
50 % of the colouring in Europe	2 pts
Compositing	1 pt
Editing	1 pt
Sound	1 pt
TOTAL	21 pts

3. Of a minimum running time of 60 minutes

4. Intended for theatrical distribution

5. Accompanied by a European letter of interest

A letter of interest from a distributor, TV-channel, sales agent, new platform distributor or cinema exhibitor must go with every project.

Selection procedures

1. Project submission

The project or film that the producer submits to CARTOON must be in one of the following 4 categories: project in concept, project in development, film in production or completed film. The producer must respect the admission requirements and the deadlines, and must provide the required documents as mentionned in the vade-mecum.

A project may be submitted to Cartoon Movie a number of times, but in a different category each time (the same project may not be submitted a second time in the same category).

On the basis of information provided in the presentation documents, Cartoon’s selection committee reserves itself the right to determine the European feature film status of the projects received and their status of progress before accepting them to Cartoon Movie.

Note : producers whose project has been selected can't decide to withdraw their project after 11 January 2013, or they will have to pay the sum of 1000 EUR. This rule is set in order to be fair to the other producers who didn't have the opportunity to be selected.

2. Selection criteria

The selection criteria upon which CARTOON’s Selection Committee will make its decision are based on the compliance with the admission requirements mentioned above and the global objectives of the MEDIA Programme, which are as follows:

• to preserve and enhance European cultural and linguistic diversity and its cinematographic and audiovisual heritage, guarantee its accessibility to the public and promote intercultural dialogue;
• to increase the circulation and viewership of European audiovisual works inside and outside the European Union;
• to strengthen the competitiveness of the European audiovisual sector in the framework of an open and competitive European market favourable to employment, including by promoting links between audiovisual professionals.
  
  

The Selection Committee will therefore take into consideration, among other things:

• the European origin of the presented work;
• its technique easily assimilated to an animation film;
• its creative potential, its originality and its place in the international market;
• its economic and commercial prospects, its ability to create jobs in Europe, its positioning in the European market, its prospective audience;
• the ability of the producer to create European cooperations around the project.
  
  

In order to meet the objectives of the MEDIA Programme, and notably the cultural and geographical diversity, CARTOON will pay particular attention to projects and films from countries that have a low capacity of audiovisual production and to those from the new member states.

CARTOON’s Selection Committee has the right to refuse a project or a film, or to change the project or film to another category, on the basis of the application documents submitted by the producer.

CARTOON’s selection committee reserves itself the right to limit the amount of projects accepted to Cartoon Movie in order to ensure that all projects presented will have a fair and equal chance of finding potential partners (maximum 2 projects per company can be accepted).

In the case CARTOON receives an excessive amount of projects, selection will be made according to the above specifications and to the overall strength of the project.

3. Decision

Producers will be informed of the Selection Committee’s decision. The Selection Committee’s decision is final. In case of dispute, the producers are entitled to request a written justification from the Selection Committee.