The Irish based animation and live action studio Telegael was awarded one of three Cartoon Tribute awards at the 2019 Cartoon Forum held in Toulouse, France this week.
The aim of the Cartoon Tributes is to reward outstanding achievements, companies or personalities that have had a positive and dynamic influence on the TV animation industry over the last year.
1,000 professionals from 40 countries attending the Cartoon Forum voted on-site in 3 categories: Broadcaster, Investor/Distributor and Producer of the Year. The award ceremony took place on Thursday 19 September. The winners received a Cartoon Tributes trophy, symbol of the professional recognition from their peers.
The 2019 Cartoon Tributes winners are:
BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR: RTBF-OUFTIVI | Belgium
INVESTOR/DISTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR: TELEGAEL | Ireland
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR: PANIQUE! | Belgium
The French city of Toulouse hosted the 30th edition of Cartoon Forum, the co-production platform for European animation series that has fast-tracked European animation to the front row. To date, 780 animated series from Cartoon Forum have been funded representing an overall spend of more than €2.7 billion in investments.
The 30th edition brought a great diversity of animation genres, content and audience with a record attendance of 1,000 producers, investors, broadcasters and buyers from 40 countries including Netflix, Disney, Hopster TV, Dreamworks, Sony, Warner Media, BBC, ZDF, RAI, RTE.
About Telegael
Established in 1988 Multi-Emmy Award-winning Telegael is one of Ireland’s leading film and animation studios producing animated and live action content for the international market. Telegael has co-produced in excess of 1,000 hours of television programming, its projects have been distributed to over 150 countries and translated into more than 50 languages. With studios in Galway and in Belfast, Telegael has coproduced TV series and feature films with partners in US, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, India, China, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Mexico and the Philippines. Broadcast partners include The Walt Disney Company, Netflix, Lionsgate, NBC Universal Sprout, BBC, Discovery, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, ZDF, Channel 5, KiKa, France Television, Hulu, SuperRTL, HBO, ABC Australia, RAI, ITV, RTE, TV3 and TG4. Recent co-productions include feature films Blinky Bill, Norm of the North, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen and Out of Innocence and TV series including Wissper, Rainbow Rangers, Llama Llama, Kulipari, YoYo, Drop Dead Weird, Irish Crime Series and JackTaylor. In 2019 Toonz Entertainment Group purchased a majority stake in Telegael.
For more information, please contact:
Paul Cummins – CEO Telegael Tel: +353 91 558600; paul@telegael.com; www.telegael.com
Source: https://www.animationmagazine.net/events/belgium-ireland-make-an-impact-at-2019-cartoon-tributes/