Young European Animators: Cartoon Springboard, 17-19 Nov

CARTOON Springboard is a new pitching event where young talents of European animation schools will be able to pitch their project in front of a panel of experts from the audiovisual world.

The event takes place in Halle (Germany) between 17-19 November 2015. It is addressed to European young talents who have graduated from an animation school within the last three years and want to develop and test their new animation project or property for the international market and/or to be distributed across multiple screens (360-degree approach).

Eligible kinds of projects include:

• a TV Special (minimum 26 minutes)
• a TV series
• a feature film (minimum 60 minutes)
• an animated project dedicated to cross-media
• short films are NOT accepted

The 3 day-event will focus on 2 parts:

• Didactic presentations by key animation players (broadcasters, distributors, producers, digital players).
• Pitches made by animation young talents coming from all over Europe.

Applicants should submit a 10 (minimum)/20 (maximum)-page PDF document with two stills. More submission rules here. The submission procedure will open soon.

Even though this event is not an actual opportunity for co-productions at this point, what this pitching forum aims at is to have the experts point out the strengths and weaknesses of an applicant's project, what s/he needs to improve, change or highlight to make this project more consistent and in line with market requirements.

In other words, it aims to establish a preliminary step on the road to Cartoon Forum (TV series), Cartoon Movie (feature films) or Cartoon 360 (crossmedia) pitching forums.

The event is also open to young talents without a project, but who have a project in mind for the future and are willing to learn how to pitch and how to better prepare new projects.

There is a submission fee of 200 EUR for young talents pitching a selected project (instead of 500 EUR). These costs cover technical costs. Meals (3 lunches and 2 dinners) and accommodation (3 nights) are offered.

Closing date for project submissions: 7 September 2015.