Event Description:

ANIMARKT STOP MOTION FORUM is a unique meeting venue for the field’s top artists, craftsmen, producers, distributors, broadcasters, and investors. Its diverse program combines workshop and vocation-oriented elements with networking and business-to-business meetings, while pitching short puppet animations offers artists a unique opportunity.

Apart from the Pitching Competition, the main programme will comprise workshops, masterclasses and panel discussions for students and young specialists (the Masters section), this year revolving around topics related to the making of a stop motion puppet as well as relations between animation makers and producers. The third part of the programme – Business, concentrates on establishing contacts in the industry and recruitment sessions for international animation studios or stop motion projects.

2026 Animarkt Stop Motion Forum Coverage

Selected Projects:

Short Film Projects

• Bear + Weasel – Germany (Director: Jan Gadermann | Producer: Fabian Driehorst)
• Cardboard House – Chile (Director: Ali Puelma | Producer: Gael Jara)
• Lovers in a Dangerous Time – France, Germany (Director: Daniel Sterlin-Altman | Producer: Alexandre de Paillerets)
• MR. SHRIMP HAS NEVER SEEN THE SEA — Latvia, Ukraine (Director & Producer: Anna Kipria)
• SPACE GARBAGE MEN — Slovakia (Director: Boris Šima | Producer: Joanna Kozuch)
• Tanglebus — Czech Republic (Director: Filip Dobeš | Producer: Libor Nemeškal)
• The Mother of Mario Papà — Italy (Director: Karen Di Porto | Producer: Mario Cirillo)
• The Wrong Wardrobe — Ukraine, Switzerland (Director: Viktoria Filmako | Producer: Gerd Gockell)
• Three Days in January — Spain (Director: Vicente Mallols | Producer: Leticia Montalvá)
• Treestezza — Spain (Director: Alejandro Ariel Martin | Producer: Maria José Serra)

Feature Film Projects

• 2 Islands — Argentina (Director: Isabel Macias | Producer: Karina Fuentes)
• Jolanda & the Red Bag — Germany (Director & Producer: Marcus Grysczok)
• Miedosa — Chile (Director: Paula Baccelliere Castillo | Producer: Miguel Malermo Padilla)
• Perfect Life — USA / Mexico (Director: Katrina Villarreal | Producer: Sahar Al-Sawaf)
• USTRONIE – LA SOBOVTOUR OF Z. TSYBULSKI — Poland (Director & Producer: Jarosław Konopka)

TV Series Projects

• Rebel Flock — Spain (Director: Andrei Simkin | Producer: Marta Rodriguez Coronil)
• Serp Blava Serp Vermella — Spain (Director: Ignasi Tarruella | Producer: Abigail Schaaff)

Animarkt Stop Motion Forum Call for Submissions

Event call for entries - Currently not open. Submission details will be reported here when announced by the event.

(2024 Archive)

Eligible projects (the project must meet all of the following requirements):

• Project of short film in development (up to 25 minutes) with at least first draft of the script or projects of full-length films or TV series or TV specials at every stage of realisation.
• Technique: stop motion animation (at least 80% of the film).
• Looking for a co-producer, funding, broadcaster, sales agent, platform, etc.
• Submissions are open for projects from all around the world, but projects from V4 countries will have an additional point.

Projects can be submitted by a natural or legal person, as well as organizational units that do not have legal existence, yet who are given legal capacity by the law (e.g. registered partnership, limited partnership). Only producers or other project’s rights-holders can submit projects.

The Selection Committee will take into consideration, among other aspects:
● idea of project and stage of its preparing – 60% of general rate;
● preparing of the presentation – 30%
● sustainable policy - 10%
● country of origin – 1 added point

• Regulations and submission materials needed
• Application Form
• Participation fee (for selected film projects only, not submitted ones): Section Short film: EUR 60 per project / Section Feature films & TV series fee: EUR 85 per project.
• Deadline: 30 June 2024 

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