Cartoon Movie brings the cream of European animation to Bordeaux

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Nearly 1,000 professionals, including producers, buyers, creators and broadcasters, gathered in Bordeaux for Cartoon Movie, where 55 projects from 16 European countries were presented.

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00:00 Every year, key players in the European animation industry are brought together in Bordeaux for

00:07 the three-day Cartoon Movie Festival.

00:14 Nearly 1,000 producers and broadcasters from 35 countries come together to discuss current

00:19 and future film and television productions.

00:23 "Doing an international or European co-production is the interest of cartoon movie.

00:31 This was one of the reasons why we started 26 years ago with this program because it

00:39 opens borders, it makes films more known.

00:43 It is not only on national level but also on international level."

00:48 The days are organized around artistic and financial pitches for projects currently in

00:53 production.

00:54 There are normally 55 projects from 16 European countries.

01:01 "Adult animation is becoming a tool to tell stories, stories sometimes which are more,

01:09 I will not say easier but more logical to tell into the style of animation as documentary

01:18 or as fiction.

01:20 We see also of course some mixtures of styles with the hybrid and it is really becoming

01:26 a new genre."

01:27 This year, PESTA, a co-production between Norway, Germany and France, won the prestigious

01:33 Euroimages Prize for co-production development, awarded every year at Cartoon Movie.

01:40 It tells of the tragic and improbable love story between Astrid and Pagan Elif.

01:46 Since its first edition in 1999, Cartoon Movie has helped 467 films to find funding, totaling

01:52 over 3 billion euros.

01:54 END

01:59 (whooshing)

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