Last Call for Animarkt Forum’s Laika Recruitment, Stop Motion Consultations, Financing your Project, and ‘Meet Your Partner’ Strands
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Recruitment to the legendary Laika Studio in the USA; individual “Ask the expert” consultations with representatives of Miyu Distribution or Maur Film; and the “Show me your project” section – these are some of the elements of the ANIMARKT industry forum, to which recruitment has just started. The organizers are waiting for your applications until September 20th!
You can register for any of the 4 sections, at: animarkt.pl/en/business
The aim of the industry forum, created by the MOMAKIN team from Łódź, is to establish international cooperation and connect the stop-motion animation market of Central Europe with Western and South America. The ANIMARKT industry forum, which has been organized in Łódź for the last 5 years, is a place to get to know the world’s biggest names in animation.
Meet a headhunter from Laika Studio
As part of the Business section, the organizers have prepared the Recruitment section, during which specialists for various positions will be sought after. This is an opportunity to work in the legendary American stop-motion animation studio LAIKA. A headhunter will be looking for candidates for the following positions: storyboarder (necessarily with experience); 2D character animator; set designer, prop maker and puppet maker (including people involved in: hair and fur making, animation constructions, costumes and puppet painting). Register Now.
A chance to find a partner or financing for your project
‘Show me your project’ is addressed to authors and producers of feature films or series. From all submitted projects, 15 films will be selected and shown to a group of broadcasters, distributors, producers or sales agents during the forum, which will allow the creators to find potential partners. The submitted projects may be at any stage of realization with the proviso that 80% of the film must be made in stop motion animation technique. Register Now.
1 hour individual consultations
‘Ask the expert’ is a unique opportunity to consult with selected film industry experts for an hour. Nine experts confirmed their participation in this year’s edition of ANIMARKT. In the field of production, consultations will be conducted by: Edwina Liard from Ikka Films and Martin Vandas from Maur Film. The following experts will talk about distribution and sales: Ben Vandendaele from Radiator IP sales, Candice Costa from Miyu Distribution and Natalia Dąbrowska from New Europe Film Sales. Piotr Knabe will lead the consultations on puppet designs, and Tim Allen, a member of ANIMARKT’s program council, will lead the animation section. There will also be festival consultations for short animated films conducted by Vassilis Kroustallis from Scheriaa Productions/Zippy Frames and Ivan Zolotukhin from FestAgent. Register Now.
We want ANIMARKT to be a meeting place not only for business but also for professional development. We often meet many artists, producers and other representatives of the stop motion animation industry at festivals, but we often lack time for longer conversations that will allow us to get to know each other and thus give an opportunity to establish cooperation. This is one of the reasons why we organize for the second time the section “Ask the expert”, where through the exchange of experience and comments to the presented project we have a chance to meet specialists on the stop motion animation market.
– Katarzyna Gromadzka
Applications to all three sections are open till September 20th, 2020. The results will be announced on September 25th.
Unique business one-to-one talks between producers of Central and Eastern Europe with producers from Chile and Argentina
MEET YOUR PARTNER is a platform divided into two sections. There are separate submissions for the meetings with producers from Chile and Argentina. Organizers provide space and time to have one-to-one talks during which participants can share their needs, ideas, and see if there is a way to collaborate. Specific projects will be qualified for the session, so that the meetings were focused on cooperation. Applications to all three sections have been opened and will last until September 21st, 2020. The results will be announced on September 28th. Register Now.
ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum is co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Cultural Promotion Fund, International Visegrad Fund and co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. More about the event at www.animarkt.pl/en
You can register for any of the 4 sections, at: animarkt.pl/en/business