08/02/2007

Five hundred European animation professionals will meet in Potsdam from March 7-9 to attend Cartoon Movie 2007, the European animation forum.

Held for the ninth consecutive year by the European Association of Animation Film – and supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the Brandenburg Minister of Economy, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, FFA and ILB – the forum aims to inject dynamism into the funding and distribution market of animated film on a European level. Forty-two projects worth almost €300m will be presented at the event.

French films are out in force (14 projects), while there are twice as many German projects as last year (13 this year). Other countries represented are Spain (7), Denmark (5) and the UK (3).

Of these 42 projects, nine have already been completed, released in cinemas or screened at several successful festivals, such as French directing duo Serge Elissalde and Grégoire Solotareff’s U [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (see news) and animated Estonian film Lotte from Gadgetville [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (see news).

The full list of projects can be viewed here.

Production studios making an appearance include Belgium’s Y.C. Aligator Film (with Picha’s latest title, Snow White: The Sequel [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), Luxembourg’s LuxAnimation (see interview with producer Ariane Payen [+see also:
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film profile]), and France’s Armateurs (with Michel Ocelot’s Kirikou & The Wild Beasts [+see also:
trailer
film profile]).

(Translated from French)