Cartoon Digital: creating multiplatform entertainment brands and revenue streams

Speakers such as CBBC, Moonscoop, ZDF Ent., DR, Copenhagen Bombay, Imira Ent., Experimental Game, and others will review topics such as: 

• Broadcasters' investment in the digital arena for kids' programmes
• Designing interactive content for kids
• Creating transmedia brands on the Internet and mobile markets
• Crossing the chasm: creating IP for the Web, mobile, TV and back
• Defining business models with IP digital exploitation
• Joining forces and talent with game developers
• The evolving market of video games

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Receiving your TV project for Cartoon Forum Toulouse

Next Cartoon Forum Toulouse will take place from 17-20 September 2013.

The selected projects will be online by end of May.

The Cartoon Forum is neither a fair nor a festival, but a co-production forum for animated TV series. For three days each year, European producers have the opportunity to pitch their animation project in front of all potential partners.

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Watch the videos about Cartoon Cine seminar: speakers and topics to be covered

Have a look at the videos of some of the topics to be covered at Cartoon Cine: 

1) Distributing and marketing content digitally

Malene Iversen (Copenhagen Bombay Sales, Denmark)

2) Making good films for an international audience: the case of “Tad, the Lost Explorer”

Jordi Gasull (El Toro Pictures, Spain)

3) Partnerships with distributors

Jasna Vavra (Universum Film, Germany)

4) Collaboration between games and animation companies

Joëlle Caroline (Ubisoft, France)

5) Producing and directing good films for an international audience: the case of “Ernest & Celestine”

Didier Brunner & Benjamin Renner (Les Armateurs, France) - video en français

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Cartoon Cine seminar: creativity in the financing and distribution of your film. 16-18 April in Denmark

Thinking creatively will be the theme of this year's Cartoon Cine:

 • creativity in the non-traditional sources of funding such as crowdfunding

 • creativity as producers in the online distribution of films

 • creativity in developing and marketing films for an international audienceŠ

The Cartoon Cine seminar will take place in Denmark (Viborg) from 16­ to 18 April 2013.

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A strong European delegation to meet Asian animation next week in Seoul

Over 160 participants from Europe and Asia will take part in the 4th Cartoon Connection ASIA in Seoul from 19 to 22 March. A mix of networking business meetings and conferences, the event is gaining momentum this year with the participation of Japanese, Malaysian and Thai studios, on top of strong Korean and European delegations.

Speakers will explain the European and Korean animation film market as well as tax schemes and public support from various countries.

Programme – List of participants

Cartoon Movie 2013: European animation film at the top

Packed rooms, quality and emotion were the key words of this 15th Cartoon Movie where more than 700 animation professionals discovered 56 film projects.

Gathering from 250 to 350 persons in the rooms, the pitching sessions got a full house. “Louise in the Winter” leads the list of the 15 most-attended pitches, followed by “MUSIC!”; “Rise of the Zelphire”; “Beyond Beyond”; “The Island of Lost Children”; “CAFARD”; “My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill”; “The Prince and the Demon-Kings”; “Capture the Flag”; “Loulou’s Secret”; “Pinocchio”; “Christmas in Pinchcliffe”; “Oggy and the Cockroaches”; “Little Princess”; and “ALPHA”.

The 22 projects in concept, pitched in grouped sessions, also aroused a strong interest amongst potential business partners and buyers.

As animated film continues to gain force all over the world, the 15th Cartoon Movie received a record 120 distributors from Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, up 20% from last year. The fact is that recent European animation films have drawn a significant number of viewers into the theatres, despite the rough competition.

Photo gallery - List of projects - Euronews report

Peter Lord, TF1 International and Les Armateurs winners of the Cartoon Movie Tributes

Aardman Animation’s founding partner Peter Lord (UK) won the European Director of the year award at Cartoon Movie 2013 for his stop-motion adventure comedy “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” in stereoscopic 3D. The film was also nominated for the Oscar awards.

Cartoon Movie participants elected TF1 International (France) as European Distributor of the year. The company co-produced its first animation feature film in 2011, “The Rabbi’s Cat”, followed by “Santa’s Magic Crystal" and “Aya of Yop City”.

Finally, Didier Brunner’s Les Armateurs (France) is the European Producer of the Year, having released two major films the same year: “Kirikou and the Men and the Women” by Michel Ocelot, and “Ernest & Celestine”, which recently received the César award for Best Animated Feature.

Ms Farida Boudaoud from the Rhône-Alpes Region gave a trophy to the Rhône-Alpes’ Personality of the Year to highlight the local animation talent. The winner is Benjamin Renner, former student of La Poudrière, who co-directed the beautiful “Ernest & Célestine”.

View and download the pictures of the winners