Animation in Europe, a super-union of animation producer associations across the continent, convenes three times a year. During its meeting at last week’s Annecy Festival, the federation’s general assembly elected its board for the next two years. Philippe Alessandri (Watch Next Media, France) remains as chairman, a role he has held since the federation was set up. Annemie Degryse (Lunanime,... Read more...
Marking 40 years since the beginning of diplomatic relations with China, the inaugural China Ireland International Film Festival will celebrate the cultures of both countries with a bi-annual film exchange. The first part of the Festival will see a varied selection of Chinese films screened in Dublin, with a series of Irish films being screened in China in 2020. The... Read more...
Galway-based animation company Telegael has received a new backer in the form of India’s Toonz Media Group. Toonz has acquired a majority stake in the Emmy-winning production house, with which it already has a number of co-productions. Set up in 1988, Telegael employs the services of up to 350 staff, including fulltime and contract workers. It co-produces animated and live... Read more...
Animation Ireland attended a three day mission (8-10th May) to Turin lead by CartoonItalia and supported by Creative Europe Desk Italy MEDIA – Ufficio di Torino, Film Commission Torino Piemonte e FIP – Film Investimenti Piemonte. The main focus of the mission was to connect 9 Irish Producers from the dynamic, growing industry in Ireland, to the Italian market and... Read more...
Screen Skills Ireland are pleased to announce the selected participants for the 2019 Screen Leaders programme. Industry leaders from Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland will come together on the 3rd of June for the first module of the programme which will take place in Ireland. Screen Leaders is a strategic company development programme for the screen industries. The programme is aimed... Read more...
It has been a busy and exciting start of the year for Animation Skillnet, starting with The Animation Studio Lab, produced by Stephen Fagan and Directed by Sean Cunningham: over fifteen weeks, the 4 tutors brought 13 participants through the creation of their own original and hilarious short, Agony Ant, from Storyboarding to Compositing. In February, Delphine Coudray joined Animation... Read more...
Next on the list for Pink Kong Studios is their new TV series that is in development. Supported by Screen Ireland Series one is 52 x 7-minute episodes. “Aleeums of Planet Park” is an exciting new preschool show in development at Pink Kong Studios. Somewhere on another galaxy, deep in space, live our heroes and Space Rangers, tasked with taking... Read more...
Brown Bag Films & 9 Story Media were nominated for a whopping twenty of the Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony that took place on Friday, 3rd May at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles. The BBF teams donned their finest threads and looked smashing on the red carpet! Brown Bag studio, together with their partners in Fred Rogers... Read more...
Pink Kong Studios has secured funding for its first original TV series, Urban Tails. With the funding from the series is coming from RTÉjn, Screen Ireland and the Broadcast Authority of Ireland. The series is currently in production for 26 x 2min episodes of fun, fast paced and cool Hip-Hop videos for Children aged 4-6. But not only that, as... Read more...
The next Creative Europe MEDIA call that supports producers is for Support to TV Programming. The deadline is 11am Irish time, Monday 28 May. AVAILABLE FUNDING Fiction or animation projects can apply for up to 12.5% of the production budget (capped at €500,000) Creative documentaries can apply for up to 20% (capped at €300,000) Co-produced TV drama series (minimum duration 6... Read more...