Fiction and documentary features, series, VR, AI, CGI, 3D, 2D, hand-drawn and puppet animation, as well as live action: it’s all represented in various shapes and sizes in the official 2024 selection of pitch projects set to be presented at the m:brane youth content financing and partnership forum in Malmö, Sweden. A total of 25 projects from 18 countries stretching over four continents have been chosen, with their intended target audiences ranging from 3-18 years of age.

Seven of the selected projects are part of a special collaboration with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, with which the m:brane forum has devised an initiative labelled “Human Rights & Children’s Rights Under the Microscope”. Raoul Wallenberg Institute representative Professor Morten Kjærum will present these handpicked titles as part of a special address and will also award a special certificate to the most deserving project. An additional seven projects share German involvement as part of this year’s m:brane country in focus. Apart from the main line-up, an additional five projects will be part of the RealYoung Development workshop, all of them documentaries and being introduced at a closed session.

From 13-14 March, the main pitch projects will be showcased with most of the teams physically present. As usual, a special award of €2,500 will go to the best, most convincing and even most artful pitch presentation, as determined by a secret undercover jury of seasoned experts. Since its inception in 2007, over 400 projects have been pitched at the m:brane platform, with over 60% eventually being realised and reaching screens across the world.

You can read more here.

Here is the list of projects taking part this year:

Fiction projects

Baby’s First Crime Spree (series) – director tbc (UK/Ireland)
Producer: Dan Dixon (Snafu Pictures Ltd, Cardel Entertainment)

Do You See Me – Ali Filson (Sweden)
Producer: Helene Granqvist (Camera X)

El Comisario – Gabriel Pomeraniec (Argentina)
Producer: Andrés Waisberg (25P Films)

Fabled – Guðni Líndal Benediktsson (Iceland)
Producer: Arnar Benjamín Kristjánsson (Zik Zak Filmworks)

Fonce – Lilia Paul (Germany/USA)
Producer: Lilia Paul (CINÉ-LITTÉ Productions, Fugue Web)

Forza Oslo – Mats Bjerknes (Norway)
Producer: Jonas Bruun (Storm Films)

Labra Cadabra (series) – Sasha Titova, Julia Titowa (Lithuania)
Producer: Olga Titova (Kapi animation LT, Rebel Frame)

Lampie – Julia Keller (Germany)
Producer: Anette Unger (Leitwolf Filmproduction GmbH)

Medicated – Las Dyhrcrone (Denmark)
Producer: Daniel Mühlendorph (Hyæne Film)

MINTs (series) – Martin Busker (Germany)
Producer: Christopher Zwickler (Flute Film GmbH)

Monster Boy – Pete Riski (Finland)
Producer: Antti Kaarlela (Whatevergroup Oy)

Raanaa – The Shaman Girl (series) – director tbc (Norway)
Producer: Mikkel Sara (Miksapix Interactive)

Ruki’s First Summer – Frédérique Veith (Germany/Tunisia)
Producer: Philipp Goeser (Schiwago Film)

Sarah’s Journey – Dreams Make Any Place Home – Fady Gamal Atallah (Sweden)
Producer: Fady Gamal Atallah (B-RETTA FILM AB)

Science’s Forgotten People (series) – Laurence Thiriat (France)
Producer: Alexandre De Villeneuve (Good To Know Studio)

The Flat Earth Theory (series) – Carla Stolt, David Dusa (Sweden)
Producer: Emilie Blezat (Dark Riviera)

The Reef – Phillip Donnellon (Germany/Estonia/UK)
Producer: Daniel Ehrenberg (Eyrie Entertainment GmbH, Split Second Films, Stellar Film)

Three Cave Mountain – Markus Dietrich (Germany)
Producers: Helmut G Weber, Anja Richter (Tradewind Pictures GmbH)

Toink! (series) – An Vrombaut (Belgium)
Producer: Kristof Lantin (Animal Tank, Phanta Animation)

Trolls and the Shadowgirl (series) – director tbc (Faroe Islands)
Producer: Jón Hammer (Kykmyndir, ÍVF T&H Productions)

Whatever Happened (series) – director tbc (Norway)
Producer: Arild Halvorsen (Fabelaktiv AS)

Documentary projects

A Place like Home – Kadriann Kibus (Estonia)
Producer: Kadriann Kibus (Rebel Frame)

Animal Tails – Nora Nivedita Tvedt (Norway)
Producer: Lillian Løvseth (LØV Film)

Bugboy – Lucas Palaiocrassas (Greece)
Producer: Rea Apostolides (Anemon Productions)

This Is a Man – Davide Tosco (Italy)
Producer: Davide Tosco (Showlab)

RealYoung Development projects

Patterns of Being – Malgorzata Wabinska (Poland)
Producer: Malgorzata Wabinska (Entertain Pictures, Fixafilm)

Period. – Charlotte Rodenstedt (Sweden)
Producer: Victor Bergström (Bloody Honey AB)

Little Big Ones (series) – Lucie Honzak Stamfestova (Czech Republic)
Producer: Dusan Mulicek (Czech Television)

Man with His Daughters – 6000 km on Bicycle – Mikael Strandberg (Sweden)
Producer: Mikael Strandberg (Explorer Mikael Strandberg)

We Keep them in Our Hearts (series) - Cecilie Bjørnaraa, Julie Engaas (Norway)
Producer: Cecilie Bjørnaraa (True Fiction AS)