The 12th edition of the CEE Animation Forum will take place on November 12 and 13, 2024.
Venue: Moving Station (Koperníkova 56, 301 00 Pilsen, Czech Republic)
The CEE Animation Forum is the leading regional pitching, financing and co-production event in the animation industry. It aims to boost the projects´ international potential, visibility and their access to a wider European market.
Through our growing professional network, we are building a strong community aimed at supporting projects, providing year-round media exposure, promoting the circulation of works and ideas, and forging new partnerships.
The main focus remains on three most important activities of Forum:
- Pitching competition
- Market
- One-to-one meetings
Pitching competition in four categories
Feature Films
Minimum length 60 minutes; in concept, in development or in production. Pitch duration: 7 min.
Series and TV Specials
Web and TV series of any format and single films, minimum length 20 minutes; all stages of development except in concept. Pitch duration: 7 min.
Short Films
Maximum length 20 minutes; all stages of development except in concept. Pitch duration: 5 min.
Student Short Films
Maximum length 20 minutes, all stages of development except in concept. Pitch duration: 5 min.
Market
The Market is an innovative tool and a dedicated space within the CEE Animation Forum. It provides a platform for animation industry professionals to present their animated projects, engage in 1:1 meetings with decision-makers and receive valuable feedback from experts who have the potential to significantly move their projects forward.
Designed to complement the pitching competition, the Market offers participants the opportunity to purchase accreditations for their projects at any stage of development, production, or distribution, including completed works.
By purchasing the Market Accreditation, participants gain early access to a reservation system that allows them to secure meetings in advance with established European professionals from various profiles, including producers, distributors, sales agents, broadcasters, scriptwriters, festival programmers, and market event representatives.
The Market fosters networking, collaboration, and business opportunities, facilitating the growth, visibility, and international potential of animated projects.
The fee includes 2 accreditations to the CEE Animation Forum 2024, possibility to schedule one–to–one meetings in advance, access to the programme of the CEE Animation Forum 2024, visibility of the project on the website www.ceeanimation.eu. Costs of travel and accommodation are paid by the participants.
1:1 meetings
All of the pitching teams and other professionals have the opportunity to claim direct 1:1 meetings with other professionals attending the event.
Professional audience of pitching event
The main audience of the event are established CEE, EU and international producers, creatives and industry agents from commercial, NGO and public institutions.
Audience: an invited group of decision makers (established European professionals of various profiles: producers, sales and distributors, public and private broadcasters, scriptwriters and script doctors, festival programmers, film institutions representatives, market events representatives, official partners of the event), animation professionals from EU and CEE region, press media representatives, students.
The CEE Animation Forum is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
The CEE Animation Forum is organized in collaboration with following partners.
