30/11/2018 - The investment fund for the Flemish regions will support six new projects, four of which are animations

Director Bibo Bergeron

The economic fund Screen Flanders will make a substantial investment (almost €1 million) in animation in its second session of 2018. The €995,000 investment is expected to yield close to €7.6 million in audiovisual expenditure in the Flemish region.

Of the six productions set to benefit, four are animations. Animated series’ Meneer Papier, Ollie and Interstellar Ella are among the selected projects, as is Charlotte, the new feature from French director Bibo Bergeron. Walking the Dog, the Ghent-based animation studio that recently brought us the ambitious Another Day of Life [+see also:
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film profile], by Damien Nenow and Raul de la Fuente, also worked with Bergeron on his previous film, A Monster in Paris [+see also:
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Screen Flanders has also selected two full-length fiction films: Swedish deep-sea thriller Breaking Surface [+see also:
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(Translated from French)