GERMAN – EUROPEAN ALLIANCES IN ANIMATION – WITH FOCUS ON POLAND AND THE BALTIC STATES
As a kick‐off event to this years Cartoon Forum (September 15th‐18th, 2015 in Toulouse) the German Producers Alliance hosted an event to strengthen the international co‐production. The event was devoted to presenting the landscape of animated film production in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Building on the success of the event in 2014, which had focused on the countries Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, this year’s conference highlighted the European partner countries Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Zofia Ścisłowska (SPPA, Association of Polish animation producers, Poland), Kristel Töldsepp (A Film Animation Studio, Estonia), Sabine Andersone (Atom Art, Latvia), Agné Adoméné (Art Shot, Lithuania) presented the structure for producing animation in their countries, that have a long and rich tradition in animation.
In recent years the Baltic countries have established funding structures that support animation in particular. On top they introduced cash rebates and tax incentives. In Estonia and Poland there are additional funds exclusively dedicated to animation. At the end of the official part of the conference Nicola Jones (FFA, Germany) presented the system of regional and federal film funding in Germany.
For the first time the event is accompanied by a call for tender. The Animation Production Day in Stuttgart, the most important co‐producing and co‐financing platform in terms of animation in Germany, plans to support co‐productions between Germany and one of the focus countries.
More than seventy participants from Germany, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia joined the event. Following the country presentations, future projects and approaches for further collaborations were discussed.
The German Producers Alliance is the most influential German producers association. More than 220 members represent the major part of all German production companies working in animated film, documentary, feature film, TV drama, TV entertainment and advertising film
production.
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Source: Press release by German Producers Alliance
Photo: Andrea Schiefer