Giant barbecue with Gypsy band, boat trip on UNESCO lake & party in a stone quarry!
The concept of Cartoon Forum is to mix business with leisure in order to create the perfect networking opportunities!
After intense pitching sessions, Magyar Cartoon Forum’s participants will have the chance to visit a beautiful baroque castle, taste wine of special terroir character, enjoy a cruise on one of Europe’s largest steppe lakes, commemorate the historic “Pan-European Picnic” by the lake or dance in an surprising stone quarry.
Who said business can’t be fun?!
Programme and list of participants online!
The full programme with the pitching sessions schedule and the list of restaurants is now available for download.
You will also find the list of participants (buyers only) right here.
230 buyers have confirmed their attendance to Magyar Cartoon Forum so far
Around 230 investors and broadcasters have already signed up for Cartoon Forum (14-17 September), including a record number of 13 buyers from 7 new EU countries.
They will spot new and original projects from all over Europe.
CARTOON goes to Canada!
After a first step in Argentina and a successful edition in South Korea, CARTOON continues to open the frontiers of the European market and organises the next Cartoon Connection in Canada (Ottawa), from 18-21 October 2010. Open to all European and Canadian animation professionals, the event aims at creating co-production opportunities and enlarging the distribution of series/features.
Enlightening sessions on the distinctive markets will be followed by one-to-one meetings in order to find new partners and discover new projects.
Cartoon Connection Canada-EU will take place just before the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the TAC (Television Animation Conference) where US speakers and buyers will also be present.
More information
Over 700 delegates already registered
Magyar Cartoon Forum looks promising: about 700 participants have already confirmed their attendance, including +230 buyers, TV and investors.
They will meet from 14 to 17 September in the lovely town of Sopron in Hungary, near the Austrian border.
The 5 nominees for the Cartoon d'Or 2010!
The jury composed of Joanna Quinn (UK), Valérie Schermann (France) and Geza M. Toth (Hungary) have selected 5 finalists among the 29 shortlisted films in competition for the Cartoon d'Or 2010:
- A Family Portrait, Joseph Pierce (UK)
- Krokodill, Kaspar Jancis (EE)
- Logorama, H5 (FR)
- Sinna Mann, Anita Killi (NO)
- The Tale of Little Puppetboy, Johannes Nyholm (SE)
The winner will be announced on Friday 17 September in Sopron (Hungary), at the Magyar Cartoon Forum. He will receive a trophy together with a financial aid of 10,000 EUR.
Success for Cartoon Finance in Malaga
Coming from all over Europe, 120 participants gathered together in sunny Malaga to discuss the financing opportunities for animated series. From traditional to global financing models encompassing the 360° approach, speakers underlined how the relationships between producers and broadcasters have changed and how TV series could be positioned as brands...
From investment pitching to business plans, co-production policies of 3 major broadcasters, public funds and co-production requisites, the delegates gained an instructive insight into the topic and were happy to further debate under the generous Andalusian sun.
Reminder: time to register!
You have not registered yet for Cartoon Forum? Send your form as soon as possible as hotels in the city centre of Sopron (Hungary) are almost fully booked, and air ticket fares are rising.
About 700 participants, including 250 financial partners attend each year the Cartoon Forum, the convivial yet highly efficient co-production rendez-vous for European professionals.
Registration - Selected projects - Watch the video
110 projects submitted, 63 selected
for 1st Cartoon Forum in a new EU country
Out of 110 projects submitted (a 20% increase!), 63 animation TV projects from 21 countries have been selected to be pitched at the next Cartoon Forum in front of all potential investors.
More than 40% of the shows are also conceived for new platforms: this ratio has doubled since 2 years. France leads the line-up with 21 projects, followed by the UK (7) and Spain (6). The new EU members show a growing vitality (10 projects), as well as the Nordic countries (7).
Selected projects - Registration
European Film Awards 2010:
submit your feature film!
Eligible films should be Europeans and should have had their first official screening (be it at a festival or cinema) after 1 July 2009. Check out the regulations for more information.
Deadline for submission is 15 June 2010 (submission form).
How can animation producers improve funding and increase revenues of their animation shows?
The upcoming international seminar Cartoon Finance will focus on the following themes:
- Co-production models, budget management and business plans
- Leading European broadcasters’ financing and exploitation strategies
- Managing brands and finding the right partners
- International and European public and private funding
The broad panel of speakers consists of major European and pan European broadcasters (Cartoon Network, Canal+, ZDF Enterprises), TV distributors
... (Awol animation), co-production experts within Europe and Canada (Millimages and Decode Canada), studio financiers, public and private funding representatives (from Cine-Regio and the Singapore International Animation Fund) and innovative production companies such as Aardman.
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CANCELLATION OF CARTOON DIGITAL IN SPAIN
Due to the ash cloud and the closure of European airports, CARTOON regrets to inform all participants that Cartoon Digital planned to be held in Santiago de Compostela next week is CANCELLED. We hope to be able to re-organise it at a later stage. All participants will be informed today Sunday 18 April by email. We are very sorry.
Cartoon Digital: how to monetize your content on web and mobile platforms?
At the next CARTOON DIGITAL taking place this month, 21 speakers from 3 continents will share their expertise on key areas related to digital production and distribution. Among the topics to be discussed:
* how to monetize your content on web, mobile and interactive services: profitable case studies
* writing for new formats adapted to the new consumption mode: gaming (Augmented Reality), social networks, web, mobile…
* inspiring innovations coming from live action success stories (among others: "Skins" for e4)
Programme – Speakers – Registration
About 1 000 one-to-one meetings between European and Korean professionals
After the screening of each company’s short demo reel, participants could decide who they wanted to meet. About 1 000 one-to-one meetings of 15 minutes followed on from each other, to study cooperation possibilities. It served as a good introduction to some future longer negotiations. Producers seemed to enjoy the formula and several deals should come out of it.
Cartoon Connection Korea-EU: when cultures, people and business meet in Jeju Island
Cartoon Digital: the next generation programmes in the new digital culture
Home, sweet digital home! How to adapt to the great changes in the media landscape? The upcoming training seminar Cartoon Digital will focus on the next generation programmes: the success of interactive series (case study from Canada), the phenomenon of storytelling for the social networks, the revival of mobile entertainment shows, online games in Augmented Reality, and much more.
Deadline to register: 7 April 2010
Programme – Speakers – Registration
Forthcoming Cartoon Connection will take place next week in Korea
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Reminder: deadline to submit a project for Cartoon Forum 2010 is 28 April
Do you have an animation project for TV or new platforms? Why don’t you submit it to CARTOON’s Selection Committee? You may have the opportunity to pitch it in front of major broadcasters and investors at Magyar Cartoon Forum in Sopron (Hungary), from 14 to 17 September 2010.
Deadline for applications: 28 April 2010
Application documents – Video about Cartoon Forum
Top projects discovered at Cartoon Movie 2010
The 12th edition of Cartoon Movie drew to a close on 5 March in Lyon. The steady growth of stereoscopic 3D, the release of new films by top directors, the high quality of the projects presented and the record number of participants were the highlights of the event.
The upbeat event had a record number of over 630 participants (a 5% increase since the previous edition which had already had a 20% increase). In particular, the number of distributors has risen by 30% (from 70 to 90)...
Participants had the chance to preview 51 films, many of which will be released in the next few years. With a total budget of some 300 million EUR, the projects reflected the diversity and graphic richness that characterise European animation.
The ability of European producers to quickly adapt to new technologies was also noticeable at the event. A quarter of the projects presented in Lyon were developed or conceived in stereoscopic 3D (versus 6 percent in 2009), a technology which is boosting cinema attendance all over Europe.
Participants were particularly enthusiastic about new projects by well-known directors such as Ari Folman (“The Congress”), Sylvain Chomet (“The Illusionist”), Ben Stassen (“Around the World in 50 Years” aka “Sammy’s Adventures”) and Patrice Leconte, who will make his debut in animation with “Le Magasin des Suicides”.
New talent also had a chance to make its presence at Cartoon Movie. Among other consipcuous projects: « Approved for Adoption » (Mosaïque Films / Artemis Production), « Of Hares and Hedgehogs » (Toons ‘n’ Tales), « Project Chopin - The Flying Machine » (Denis Friedman Productions / BreakThru Films), « Metropia » (Atmo Metro) and « Crabwalk» (Metronomic).
Cartoon Movie's 13th edition will be held in Lyon from 2 - 4 March 2011.
Have a look at the gallery.
Cartoon Movie 2010 Tributes : Belgium and France swipe the 3 awards
- Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar for « Panique au Village » (BE)
- Wild Bunch Distribution (FR)
- nWave Pictures for « Sammy's Adventures » (BE)
Download the picture. From left to right: Ben Stassen (nWave), Philippe Kauffmann & Vincent Tavier (La [Parti] Prod.), Marie-Pierre Vallé (Wild Bunch), Marc Vandeweyer (CARTOON)
Or have a look at the gallery.
Cartoon Movie's first day: intensity and quality
Among other hit projects presented today, we can pin out “Le magasin des suicides” by renowned director Patrice Leconte (FR), a surprising musical full of black humour; “Metropia” by Tarik Saleh (SE), a thriller about a huge conspiracy set in a not-so-distant future; and the interesting “Project Chopin – The Flying Machine” by Martin Clapp, a nice puppet animation film about a mysterious flying piano following Chopin’s music and life.
Cartoon Movie started with a strong creative project presented by "Waltz with Bashir" director
Cartoon Movie’s pitching sessions started today with a very strong and original project brightly presented by its director Ari Folman. After the success of his animated documentary “Waltz with Bashir”, Folman seems again to create a new dimension for animated films with his new project "The Congress": the first 40 minutes of the movie start in fiction then turn into animation. Adapted from “The futurological Congress” by Stanislaw Lem, the film follows the life of actress Robin Wright, then enters into a science fiction world of illusion, drugs and psychological doubts.
True 3D technology for an impressive immersive experience: Ben Stassen pitched his new film
Europeans have nothing to envy to Americans when it comes to stereoscopic 3D, as the “pope of 3D” is considered to be Belgian director and producer Ben Stassen. He gave us an enlightening example of what true 3D is - and not "2.5"D as many other films - with his “Around the World in 50 Years” (aka “Sammy’s Adventures”). According to Ben Stassen, 3D can be a real revolution if the whole film is thought in stereoscopy from the beginning, and not if 3D is just an additional gimmick. In any case, the screening was convincing!
Gallery: have a look at the first pictures of the event!
Cartoon Movie 2010: more distributors, more participants, more 3D films
Cartoon Movie is growing in all senses of the word. This year the event welcomes 635 participants from 32 countries, 169 buyers, including 92 distributors, and 31 professionals from the gaming industry. 13 films in stereoscopic 3D will be presented, against 3 last year.
Thursday will be the first day of the pitching sessions, where quite a few hits are expected…
Cartoon Movie kicks off tonight with Czech opening film “In the Attic: Who Has a Birthday today?”
Animation professionals from all over Europe will meet tonight in Lyon. Cartoon Movie’s 12th edition will start with the beautiful opening film “In the Attic: Who Has a Birthday today?”, presented by its director Jiří Barta. Produced by Czech company Bio Illusion, this stop-motion film full of humor, poetry and imagination is an adventure fairy tale where forgotten toys magically transform themselves in a mysterious attic. Jiří Barta is a legendary Czech director of animated films known for awarded films such as “The Pied Piper” and “The Extinct World of Gloves”.
Special screening: “Around the World in 50 Years”, the new film by 3D pioneer and expert Ben Stassen
“Around the World in 50 Years” (aka "Sammy's Adventures) is the long-awaited new film by Belgian director and producer Ben Stassen who in 2008 premiered “Fly Me to the Moon”, the first ever CGI film designed, created and released solely in 3D and viewed by over 6.3 million people around the globe. Produced by nWave Pictures, a multinational company based in Brussels, “Around the World in 50 Years” tells the epic journey of a sea turtle from birth to maturity. Full of humour, action and drama, the story also has a strong underlining message about our planet.
Cartoon Movie’s Coaching Programme:
building the future of the animation industry
46 students from 8 prestigious animation schools in Germany, France and Denmark, have the opportunity to leave their classrooms for a moment and join professionals at Cartoon Movie. After a few preliminary workshops, the students will be able to attend all the pitching sessions and meet producers, investors and buyers from all over Europe. The objective of the Coaching Programme is to increase the chances of young talents and to achieve their consistent integration into the financing market.
The schools are member of ETNA, the European Training Network of Animation schools created by CARTOON.
Cartoon Movie's Coaching Programme has existed since 2002 and we already see the results: former Coaching Programme students have come back to Cartoon Movie, and this time to present their own projects.
The animation schools participating in the Coaching Programme this year are:
- Emile Cohl (Lyon)
- La Poudrière (Valence)
- Les Gobelins (Paris)
- The Animation Workshop (Viborg)
- Animation School (Hamburg)
- HFF Konrad Wolf (Potsdam)
- Institut für Animation, Visual Effects und Digitale Postproduktion an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Ludwigsburg)
- Kunsthochschule Kassel/Trickfilmklasse (Kassel)
Imaginove Cluster Tour: a visit to La Cartoucherie & Folimage
Cartoon Movie participants will have the unique opportunity to visit La Cartoucherie, the new centre of excellence around animation and the animated image in Rhône-Alpes. Located near Valence, the site welcomes the renowned studio Folimage (“Raining Cats and Frogs”, “Mia and the Migoo”), the animation film school La Poudrière, as well as other companies working in the animation sector such as Les Films du Nord, Toondra, Les Tanukis and TeamTO.
Participants will also enjoy wine and local delights tasting, before Cartoon Movie 2010’s Opening Night.
More information about La Cartoucherie
Nominees for the Tributes 2010 announced
The Cartoon Movie Tributes seek to reward companies and personalities who have actively contributed to the development of European animation over the last year.
Selected by the animation professionals attending Cartoon Movie, the winners will be announced in Lyon on 5th March. List of nominees:
Best European Director of the Year
Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar for “Panique au Village” (Belgium)
Tarik Saleh for “Metropia” (Sweden)
Dominique Monféry for “Eleanor’s Secret” (France)
Best European Distributor of the Year
Celluloid Dreams World Sales (France)
KINO ŚWIAT (Poland)
Wild Bunch Distribution (France)
Best European Producer of the Year
Ilion Animation Studios for “Planet 51” (Spain)
Herold & Family for “The True Story of Puss’n Boots” (France)
nWave Pictures for “Around the World in 50 Years” (Belgium
Next Cartoon Digital at the historical Parador of Santiago de Compostela
The next training seminar Cartoon Digital will focus on how animation is converging with the new digital culture. Among the themes to be discussed: monetizing Kids’ properties cross media, dividing platforms according to genre and target, creating and selling to the media platforms, innovating multi-platform interactive animated series, new partnerships with Goole/YouTube…
The conferences will take place in Santiago de Compostela (World Heritage City) from 20-22 April 2010 at the Parador (Hostal dos Reis Católicos), considered the oldest hotel in the world, and also one of the most beautiful.
Programme – Brochure (EN) (ES) – Registration
Deadline to submit a project at Magyar Cartoon Forum: 28 April 2010
For producers who want to submit a new animation project for TV or new platforms, the deadline to send the submission file is Wednesday 28 April 2010.
Magyar Cartoon Forum, the European co-production forum, will take place from 14 to 17 September 2010 in Sopron, Hungary.
Application documents
Special screening at Cartoon Movie: the first images of Sylvain Chomet’s new film
Award-winning French director Sylvain Chomet ("Belleville Rendez-vous") will show to Cartoon Movie participants the first images of his latest film, “The Illusionist”, based upon an original screenplay by French comic genius Jacques Tati.
Complete list of selected projects
'The Secret of Kells' and 5 other European animation films nominated for the Oscars!
Among the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards, we are proud to see the growing recognition of European animation. “The Secret of Kells” by Tomm Moore (Cartoon Saloon, Les Armateurs & Vivi Film) is nominated for Best Animated Feature Film. The film was presented at Cartoon Movie and won 2 Cartoon Tributes last year.
As for the Best Short Film category, all five nominees
are European, including Cartoon d’Or 2009 nominee “Wallace & Gromit - A Matter of Loaf and Death” by Nick Park (Aardman Animations); and “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” by Nicky Phelan (Brown Bag Films), whose TV project was one of Cartoon Forum 2009’s hits. The three other nominees are “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” by Javier Recio Gracia (Kandor Moon), “Logorama” by H5 (Autour de Minuit Production) and “French Roast” by Fabrice O. Joubert (Pumpkin Factory / Bibo Films). Congratulations to all of them!
Deadline to register for Cartoon Connection Korea: 10 February 2010
The upcoming meeting between European and Korean animation professionals will take place from 24 to 26 March 2010 in South Korea.
Should you want to join the event, bear in mind that the final registration deadline is Wednesday 10 February. We won’t be able to accept participants beyond that date.
More information about the event
Already 600 participants have registered for Cartoon Movie 2010, including 90 distributors
Last year, Cartoon Movie had a 20% increase of audience. This year’s edition seems to follow the trend, as 590 professionals have already registered and among them, 160 buyers, including 90 distributors looking for bright projects. Just to name a few: DreamWorks, Gaumont, MK2, Senator, Le Pacte, Celluloid Dreams, Lusomundo, Gebeka, SF Film, Diaphana, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fortissimo, Haut et Court, Coproduction Office, Delphis Films Inc., Soda Pictures, Wild Bunch, Vértice Cine, BAC Films, Cinéart, DNC.
Reminder: producers without project can still register as “observers”.
Registration (note: several hotels are already fully booked)
Renowned directors join Cartoon Movie 2010
The next edition of Cartoon Movie looks promising: 50 projects of animation feature films will be presented, including works by renowned directors coming from different backgrounds such as Patrice Leconte, famous for his live action films (“Ridicule", "Tandem"); Ari Folman, who revolutionized the genre with his animation documentary "Waltz with Bashir"; Kari Juusonen, co-director of the successful Finnish film “Niko”; Raoul Servais, who received the Palme d'Or for short film; and Bénédicte Galup, co-director of "Kirikou & the Wild Beasts".
In addition, more and more projects are following the evolution of cinema and are made in stereoscopic 3D.
Discover the complete list of selected projects - Register here.
Next CARTOON FORUM highlights
What is the Cartoon Forum?
Watch the Euronews report of the 2009 edition in Norway.
About Cartoon
CARTOON is an international non-profit association based in Brussels.
CARTOON’s remit is to support the European animation industry and for more than 20 years, it has received financial support from the MEDIA Programme of the European Union to run its activities, which concentrate on 4 areas: Cartoon Masters, Cartoon Forum, Cartoon Movie and Cartoon Connection.
CARTOON is supported by:
Cartoon CONNECTION Latin America-EU
Meeting between EU and Latin American professionals
6-9 Dec. 2010,
Mexico City (Mexico)
