ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum 2022 Announces Program
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Business consultations, meetings with masters or representatives of prominent production studios and pitching competitions with prizes allowing winners to make their own movie. ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum – one of the most important events in the animation industry in the world – starts on November 5th. Due to this event, Łódź will be visited – in person or online – by creators associated with productions such as “Pinocchio” by Guillermo Del Toro or “Isle of Dogs” by Wes Anderson. A detailed program of the event has just been announced.
ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum is the only industry event in the world that integrates the stop motion community. It is the forum where business relationships and international cooperation are established, whereas young creators have an extraordinary opportunity to present their projects to their idols. This is where movies acclaimed by both critics and the audience begin their journey.
This year, ANIMARKT will have a hybrid form yet again – meetings in Łódź will be accompanied by a virtual platform, which will make the forum available to users from the most distant parts of the world.
Taking advantage of the experiences we have collected, we want to use online tools to create a platform with materials that can be used. Direct meetings in Łódź, which open the door to an international career for many creators, remain crucial to us. Since the very beginning, the objective of the forum has been to integrate the animation industry and make it easier for beginner creators to start their journey.
Agnieszka Kowalewska-Skowron and Paulina Zacharek, founders of the forum
ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum 2022 will start on November 5th and last 4 days. The program is comprised of three main sections: MASTERS, PITCHING and BUSINESS.
In the MASTERS section, participants will choose from as many as five masterclasses. How to present real stories in animation will be discussed by Norwegian director and animator Mats Grorud, whereas Ana Chubinidze will share the secrets of making puppets using the cut-out technique. Hector Fausto and Jonatan Guzman from Polar Studio will talk about visual effects in stop motion projects and how VFX helps them implement a director’s vision. Angela Poschet will talk about her latest production entitled “The House” prepared for Netflix. The last masterclass related to building an audience will be conducted by Ilan Urroz working on the animation entitled “The Inventor.”
Workshops will also be organized. The first one will be prepared by Christophe Erbes and will deal with the topic of developing series for children. The other one on animating characters will be conducted by Thiago Calçado.
The Masters section also involves discussions on trends. This year, they will focus on greed production of stop motion animations, the market for distribution of animations after the pandemic and the position of women in the animation industry. This part of the forum will be topped out with Ask the Expert, which is a series of consultation meetings between experienced practitioners and young creators.
Pitching, which is a competition section of ANIMARKT, always evokes the biggest emotions. It provides artists with an opportunity to present their projects to a group of experts from the world animation industry, gain partners and win prizes that will make it easier for creators to produce their movie. This year, 15 short projects will compete for, the amount of PLN 60,000 in the form of an in-kind co-production contribution funded by the Audiovisual Technology Center, a professional accreditation for MIFA 2023, prizes funded by APA Lab or Animond as well as Dragonframe 5 software. Radiator IP Sales Distribution will provide advisory services in the field of international distribution for a selected project. For the very first time, the best feature films and TV series that will compete at ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum for qualified for Kids Kino Industry 2023, a professional accreditation for MIFA 2023 in Annecy, an Animond award as well as Dragonframe 5 software.
ANIMARKT is a place where film and the business meet. Therefore, the BUSINESS section, which facilitates networking meetings with the participation of the most influential people in the industry, will have a special spot in the program. Traditionally, there will also be industry breakfast meetings, fast forms, 15-minute Match&Meet and Meet Your Partner meetings, which are networking meetings with producers.
A portfolio review, as part of the Job Fair, will familiarize young creators with the system of selecting employees in movie studios. Interviews with selected creators will be conducted by representatives of well-recognized studios such as 5 A.M. Studios, Beast Animation, LAIKA, MAUR Film or Nukufilm.
In order to participate in the forum, one should register and select a form of participation. The cost of participating in this year’s edition is EUR 25 and EUR 10 for students. This year, for the first time it will be possible to purchase a combined ticket for ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum and CEE Animation Forum at the price of EUR 35. The price of the combined ticket for students is EUR 15. Link to the tickets can be found at www.animarkt.pl.
ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum is co-financed from the funds of the International Visegrad Fund, by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and co-finances by the Polish Film Institute. Creative Europe Desk Polska is a partner of the event. Main partners of ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum 2022 are EC1 Łódź – the City of Culture and Łódź Film Commission as well as the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
The event is organized by MOMAKIN, a company connecting the world of animated film makers with the international production, distribution and promotion market and specializing in stop motion projects. It supports animation projects at each stage of their creation: from planning and financing to production and distribution. It is involved in educating and professionalizing the film industry.