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Cartoon warmly thanks the public bodies and professionals who have helped bring Cartoon Springboard in Valencia. GENERALITAT VALENCIANA UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA

| Vicent MARZÀ IBÁÑEZ | Francisco José MORA MAS Education, Culture and Sport Councillor Rector | José Luis CUETO LOMINCHAR INSTITUT VALENCIÀ DE CULTURA Vice-Rector for Students, Culture and | Abel GUARINOS Sport General Director | Ricardo FORRIOLS GONZÁLEZ | José Luis MORENO Area Director: Cultural Activities Deputy Director of Audiovisual and | Sara ÁLVAREZ SARRAT Cinematography Department Director Prime the Animation! New Talent International Festival Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Cartoon Springboard 2019 will take place in the city of Valencia. It will be a great Vicent Marzà chance for the Department of Education, Education, Culture and Sport Culture and Sport, through the Valencian Councillor Institute of Culture, to show our full support for Valencian animation. It is, without a doubt, an emerging sector, very creative and innovative, which has a great future within our cultural industries. Cartoon Springboard is one of the most important training events for the animation industry in Europe. Its celebration allows young talents to present their projects to a group of animation and audiovisual media of Valencian animators and our animation experts who will subsequently offer valuable companies to be present in this new edition advice and all kinds of guidelines to improve of Cartoon Springboard. We believe it will their work. be very useful for them and that they will Cartoon Springboard is also a meeting point take advantage of the experience and for the European animation industry where professionalism offered by the large group of its participants can contact major buyers international experts and advisers who will and producers scouting for talent from participate this year. Europe, discover what are the new trends It’s not a coincidence that Valencia will host in the audiovisual market and analyze the Cartoon Springboard 2019, nor that the evolution of the audience. Undoubtedly, it Department of Education, Culture and Sport is an opportunity to get to know the market, actively collaborates in its organization. In make ourselves known outside our borders fact, it is a clear proof of our commitment and expand the growth and business towards the continuous training of young possibilities of the sector. talents and the internationalization of one of The Valencian Institute of Culture has been our most prestigious and promising cultural working hard in order to help new generations industries. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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La celebració del Cartoon Springboard a la ciutat de València és una oportunitat Vicent Marzà magnífica per demostrar el suport decidit que Conseller d’Educacio, Cultura i la Conselleria d’Educació, Cultura i Esport, a Esport través de l’Institut Valencià de Cultura, volem donar a l’animació valenciana. Es tracta, indiscutiblement, d’un sector emergent, capdavanter en innovació i creativitat, que té un gran futur en el conjunt de les nostres indústries culturals. eixamplar les possibilitats de creixement i negoci d’aquest sector. Cartoon Springboard és un dels esdeveniments formatius més importants Des de l’Institut Valencià de Cultura hem fet de la indústria de l’animació a Europa. La un gran esforç per fer possible que les noves seua celebració permet els joves talents de generacions d’animadors valencians i les presentar els seus projectes davant experts empreses valencianes del sector estiguen d’animació i mitjans audiovisuals d’arreu presents en aquesta nova edició de Cartoon del món que, posteriorment, els oferiran Springboard i puguen treure profit de un valuós assessorament i tota mena l’experiència i la mestria que els brindaran el d’orientacions pràctiques per millorar els conjunt d’experts i assessors internacionals seus treballs. que hi participaran. Cartoon Springboard és també un punt de Que la ciutat de València siga la seu trobada de la indústria de l’animació europea, del Cartoon Springboard 2019 i que la en el qual, els seus participants poden Conselleria d’Educació, Cultura i Esport hi contactar amb els principals compradors i collabore activament no és una casualitat; productors que busquen talents a Europa, és la demostració inequívoca que apostem descobrir quines són les noves tendències decididament per la formació contínua dels del mercat audiovisual i analitzar l’evolució joves talents de l’animació valenciana i per de les audiències. És, en definitiva, una la internacionalització d’una de les nostres oportunitat per conèixer el mercat, fer- indústries culturals més potents, amb més nos conèixer fora de les nostres fronteres i prestigi i amb més futur. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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La celebración en la ciudad de Valencia del Cartoon Springboard es una buena Vicent Marzà oportunidad de demostrar el apoyo decidido Consejero de Educación, Cultura y de la Conselleria de Educación, Cultura y Deporte Deporte, a través del Institut Valencià de Cultura, a la animación valenciana. Se trata, sin lugar a dudas, de un sector emergente, muy creativo e innovador, que tiene un gran y ampliar las posibilidades de crecimiento y futuro en el conjunto de nuestras industrias negocio del sector. culturales. Desde el Institut Valencià de Cultura hemos Cartoon Springboard es uno de los eventos hecho un gran esfuerzo para que las nuevas formativos más importantes para la industria generaciones de animadores valencianos de la animación en Europa. Su celebración y las empresas valencianas del sector, permite que los jóvenes talentos puedan estén presentes en esta nueva edición de presentar sus proyectos ante un grupo Cartoon Springboard y puedan beneficiarse de expertos de animación y de medios de la experiencia y profesionalidad que audiovisuales que, posteriormente, les les ofrecerá el nutrido grupo de expertos y ofrecerán un valioso asesoramiento y todo asesores internacionales que participarán tipo de orientaciones para mejorar sus este año. trabajos. Que la ciudad de València sea sede Cartoon Springboard es también un punto del Cartoon Springboard 2019 y que la de encuentro de la industria de la animación Conselleria d’Educació, Cultura i Esport europea en el que sus participantes pueden colabore activamente en su organización contactar con los mayores compradores y no es casualidad; es la demostración productores que buscan talentos en Europa, inequívoca que apostamos claramente descubrir cuáles son las nuevas tendencias por la formación continua de los jóvenes del mercado audiovisual y analizar la talentos de la animación valenciana y por evolución de las audiencias. En definitiva, es la internacionalización de una de nuestras una oportunidad para conocer el mercado, industrias culturales más potentes, con más hacerse conocer fuera de nuestras fronteras prestigio y con más futuro.

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CARTOON is thrilled to present the fifth edition of Cartoon Springboard, our pitching event Marc Vandeweyer for the upcoming generation of European General Director of CARTOON young talents. For a few days, the light will shine on the 24 projects of animation they will be presenting here. Our panel of 17 experts, coming from writing, creative, production, broadcasting, distribution, cross-media and financing strands will help these young talents understand where the strengths of their Last but not least, we wish to express our projects lie, how to overcome obstacles and deepest gratitude to our partners : the MEDIA create successful shows ready to be pitched Programme of Creative Europe as they conti at professional markets. nue to support this event wholeheartedly as well as the Generalitat Valenciana, the In a highly competitive environment and fast Institut Valencia de Cultura, FES Cultura, and changing global market, where animation finally the Universitat Politècnica de València, projects abound, it is essential that project which are hosting this event. creators understand market rules, see new trends and seize opportunities. To this end, the Thanks to all these combined efforts and st pitching part of the event will be preceded by vision, we are happy to say that since the 1 4 professional presentations and a workshop edition of Cartoon Springboard, 13 projects on storytelling and story development. already presented were selected to pitch at European co-production events Cartoon Our thanks go towards the panel of experts Forum and Cartoon Movie ! for the advice and generous guidance they will provide to today and tomorrow’s creative We wish the same success to this year’s animation authors and producers. We also young professionals and hope that they wish to thank the European animation embed the good advice given to them, start schools which have relayed the information creating a professional network and are able about this event to their last year students to launch their promising projects. and alumni. We have confidence this will be the case.

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A.S.S. Anselmo Bad Wannabe To The Boner Baldies

almudena sancho massimo ottoni robert lönnqvist eliška podzimková

Grandma’s BFFS! Blue Figures Pond HEKA

josé balbuena nathan otaño friedrich schäper anita verona

Jean-Claude, Hey Pappy Holy Shit! Home Villa Pocket Tours Assistant

cilian dubock marine cortier irene chica tom chertier

Lilly Lost My Granny of the Valley Enthusiasm is a Terror Night Cat

domagoj bogdan ludka kierczak elodie dermange jessica drechsler

Soft Queer Orc Inc. Ravenclaws Stories Tales of Zale (No One Dies)

paul de vrijer josé manuel navarro alex tagali sif savery

The Legend The Ducks The Legend of The Great Wild Time of Jack Skull

ángela arregui chavarría aurélien fromentin lamberto anderloni deborah tan

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A computer error linked them under CATEGORY TV series the initials A.S.S. (Association of Secret TARGET AUDIENCE Children Superheroes). Mr. Bigotes, Roger, Sandie, Hugo and Sugar, “freaks” and “outsiders” in their previous lives, will fight to release Big City from the experiments of Dr. Malo Malísimo, a frustrated and lunatic geneticist who doesn´t stand happy people. Defects, deformation and anomalous powers will become the best weapons A.S.S. will use to fight these extravagant hy- Almudena Sancho Roberto Bianchi David Gallego brid monsters in exchange to enjoy {Spain} {Spain} {Spain} their delightful secret base, in which (34) (686) 05 17 17 (34) (622) 82 69 66 (34) (610) 31 88 81 they have their most difficult mission: asanchodebustos@ contacto@ rcxd1300@ to live together! gmail.com eldibujantezurdo.com gmail.com eldibujantezurdo.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical ANSELMO WANNABE

“So kids, what do you want to be when CATEGORY TV series you grow up?” TARGET AUDIENCE Children Questioned by the teacher, Anselmo imagines himself as a Fireman, an Archi- tect, an Astronaut... every imaginable job. Between misadventures, disasters and ab- surd situations, in continuous competition with the talented classmate Letizia, we will see Anselmo always reach the goal, show- ing as every job, if done with perseverance and passion, can be the greatest job in the Massimo Ottoni world! Ibrido {Italy} +39 328 286 43 79 [email protected] www.ibridostudio.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical BAD TO THE BONER

Boner, a passive millenial, spends his life doing absolutely nothing. Unexpectedly everything changes, when Boner’s single mother never comes back from the grocery store and consequently Boner starves on his key- board. Neither Captain God or Sexy CATEGORY Web Series Legged Devil feel accountable for his TARGET AUDIENCE Young adults/adults soul, because he has never done anything good or bad. Unanimously they decide that Boner is to be swept under the earths grassy rug, where a wet dream of the Sexy Devil miraculously reincarnates him from eternal sleep. Routinely Boner stays in his grave scrolling his phone, until the battery dies and he is forced to dig himself out. Soon Boner finds himself on a quest to Robert Lönnqvist {Finland} find a charger, make love with the Devil and obstruct God’s Judgement Day (358) (44) 083 35 35 plans. [email protected] badtotheboner.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical BALDIES

Yes, you have cancer, but this series is going to help you become bold and strong, but mainly positive. All the doc- tors around, all the scary examinations and all the fear you have inside is nor- CATEGORY Series mal, but we will explain many things to TARGET AUDIENCE Family you through the magic of animation, so we can look inside the body and even the chemotherapy becomes to be your friend. Why will your hair fall off your head? Why can’t you go to school with your friends? And what is the tumor? These aren’t simple questions at all and thanks to this series you’ll have an answer. Unfortunately, we cannot an- Jiri Sadek Eliška Podzimková swer the strongest and most frequently Old&Rich Production Old&Rich Production {Czech Republic} {Czech Republic} asked question “why me?”, but we can improve your mood and explain your (420) (77) 615 61 11 (420) (77) 615 61 11 daily bald life. [email protected] [email protected] www.oldrich.rocks www.oldrich.rocks Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical BFFS!

BFFS! Best Friends Forever Stranded! Frank the Rooster and Chops the Pig, in the search for new goals in their life, CATEGORY TV series get stranded in an unknown, remote TARGET AUDIENCE Children and very mysterious island. There, they meet their guide and new best friend, Charli the Vegan Crocodile. There, they will live innumerable adventures together, dealing with The Sausage Squad, the native tribe of the island, and Mrs Flaherty, an eccen- tric documentary filmmaker who goes after the legendary Pink Boar of the José Balbuena prophecy. {Spain} The prophecy’s curse is driving every- (353) (85) 196 37 33 body crazy and Frank, Chops and Charli [email protected] will be there to solve the mystery. www.instagram.com/ josebalbuena.ole Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical BLUE FIGURES

Blue Figures is an anthology series project of nested short biopics inspired by the life of famous Jazz musicians. It aims to explore the relation between CATEGORY TV series Jazz music and those making it flourish. TARGET AUDIENCE Young adults/adults Crossing different countries and times, each episode will be linked to the next thanks to a character or a location. That way they can be seen separately or con- secutively, offering a global, relatable and sensorial experience of the social and personal origins of Jazz music in the world. The series aims not only to make jazz enthusiasts experience the reality of the Nathan Otaño lifes of Jazz musicians but also to share {France} meaningful and universal stories to an (33) (6) 40 51 50 12 unacquainted audience. [email protected] vimeo.com/nathanotano Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical GRANDMA’S POND

Chloé, a pre-teenager, spends her holi- CATEGORY Mini Series days with her mom and her little brother TARGET AUDIENCE Children Emil. Since mom and grandma contin- uously argue, Chloé has to watch over Emil, but he disappears. To find him, grandma will lead Chloé to a mysterious island, that hides in the middle of her pond. The island was built by the family’s imagination, when mom was still a kid. But today, it’s slowly sinking. To save Emil, the whole family will have to come to terms with their history, and Friedrich Schäper Anastasia Heinzl reconnect with their imagination to Studio Huckepack {Germany} {France} make the magical island rise again. (49) (176) 20 17 94 47 (33) (6) 69 63 40 88 [email protected] [email protected] www.studiohuckepack.de lecliff.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical HEKA

In the magical world of Gabala, the law has been broken and the Volcano threatens to destroy everything. Two improbable creatures team up to save CATEGORY TV series their land and discover the identities TARGET AUDIENCE Teenagers hidden by the masks they wear from birth.

Anita Verona Gaia Zavoli Federica Carbone Irene Camporeale Alberto Longo Maskas {Italy} Maskas {Italy} Maskas {Italy} Maskas {Italy} Maskas {Italy} (39) (338) 863 73 36 (39) (348) 874 28 85 (39) (348) 875 92 94 (39) (340) 501 71 07 (39) (339) 117 00 27 anitaverona87@ gaia.zavoli@ carbone.fdr@ ire.camporeale@ alberto.longo90@ gmail.com gmail.com gmail.com gmail.com gmail.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical HEY PAPPY

A boy comes to his Pappy with life’s CATEGORY Web Series questions and Pappy is more than ea- TARGET AUDIENCE Young adults/adults ger to help. He shares with his son his abnormal life stories which seem a little too good to be true.

Cilian DuBock Hector Kuenzler-Byrt Ben Spybey HagBox3 HagBox3 HagBox3 {United Kingdom} {United Kingdom} {United Kingdom} (44) (784) 010 41 91 (44) (749) 806 50 57 (44) (739) 870 59 34 [email protected] hkuenzler65@ benospybey@ ciliandubock. gmail.com gmail.com weebly.com hectorkb.weebly.com benspybeystuff. weebly.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical HOLY SHIT!

Philibert the Pot-Bellied, King of France, CATEGORY TV series receives a very odd ransom demand. TARGET AUDIENCE Young adults/adults God has been kidnapped! The kidnap- per asks for a tremendous ransom: seven holy hallows, lost and scattered all over Europe. In order to manage this unheard-of crisis, he decides to summon the crème de la crème of the kingdom’s knighthood. Problem: none of them wants to risk his life an such adventure. Refusal by refusal, desperate, the king switches to the last solution he Marine Cortier has, and send on coercion a bench of {France} convict who was rotting into his jail. But (33) (6) 28 59 28 68 we are far, far away from the elite troop. [email protected] blackmarten.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical HOME VILLA TOURS

Every time their owner leaves for her CATEGORY TV series office work, a group of pets take the op- TARGET AUDIENCE Children portunity to organize tourist packages at home and surroundings, aimed at animals from the jungle or even the Arctic that dream of knowing the domestic habitat. But scheduled activities and tours are subject to the unpredictable when it comes to such uncontrollably wild tourists, whose instincts surface at the worst moments. On top of that Irene Chica Iván Agenjo Rocío Mira Wackamola {Spain} Peekaboo {Spain} there is the janitor’s dog of the urban- (34) (622) 58 94 17 Animation {Spain} (34) (618) 49 70 29 ization, which insists on uncovering the (34) (618) 14 20 89 business. irene@ [email protected] wackamola.com ivan@peekabooani- www.rociomira.com www.wackamola.com mation.com www.peekabooani- mation.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical JEAN-CLAUDE, POCKET ASSISTANT

At the heart of a humorous and poetic CATEGORY TV series dystopia, Jean-Claude is an intelligent TARGET AUDIENCE Young adults/adults assistant with a well-spoken tongue. Casual, digressive and mischievous, the voice assistant leads users into rather unexpected explanations.

Tom Chertier Flora Delaby {France} {France} (33) (7) 83 88 96 09 (33) (6) 75 18 08 86 [email protected] [email protected] Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical LILLY OF THE VALLEY

Lilly lives with her grandmother and her younger brother Rowan in a valley by a village. One day a train from bygone days appears at the village station that their father once boarded but never re- CATEGORY Feature film turned. Driven by the curiosity of what TARGET AUDIENCE Family happened to his father, Rowan sneaks past the gathered folk and climbs on the train. Lilly must act quickly, so she jumps on the train as well, but it is too late to leave as it has already started its course. It takes them on a journey to an underground city, ruled by Queen Dahlia, where people have fled because of the pollution they created on the surface. Lilly and Rowan must persuade Queen Dahlia that there are Domagoj Bogdan others living out on the surface, as well {Croatia} as find their long lost father. (385) (98) 942 67 33 [email protected] Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical LOST ENTHUSIASM

The music group Lost Enthusiasm decides to reunite a few years after splitting up. They decide to meet once again to participate in a ground-break- ing event - playing a concert in space. CATEGORY TV series After a malfunction, however, the ship TARGET AUDIENCE Young adults/adults starts to drift through the vacuum of space. The passengers try to repair the ship and their journey leads them to face various questions about whether they have anything on Earth to go back to. As a result, they try to make their journey more meaningful. They try to Ludka Kierczak Jakub Kostal Julita Olszewska rebuild their relationships as they may Kosmonaut {Poland} Bionaut Kosmonaut {Poland} be stuck together in space for eternity. (48) (788) 72 04 37 {Czech Republic} (48) (607) 26 43 96 The project puts forward philosophical ludka@kosmonaut. (42) (060)852 77 77 olszewska.julita@ and existential questions about art, watch [email protected] gmail.com human nature and man’s place in the www.bionaut.cz universe. www.kosmonaut. watch Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical MY GRANNY IS A TERROR

Louis, who’s 12 and a bit of a techie, is CATEGORY TV special forced to spend his vacation with his TARGET AUDIENCE Family granny Mémé. She lives in Dordogne in a little cabin lost in the woods. Fare for the day: nettle soup, witchcraft and zero broadband. Poor Louis, more hor- rendous holidays in view. So he jumps for joy when he hears the local mayor wants to build a mega theme park in place of the forest, but Mémé is outraged. Bit by bit, Louis will start to see the absurdity of the idea and will join Mémé in her battle against Elodie Dermange Aurélie Monteix the mayor’s daft deforestation. {Switzerland} {France} (41) (763) 74 02 46 (33) (6) 86 68 00 34 [email protected] [email protected] www.instagram.com/ www.instagram.com/orwalkup elodiedermange Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical NIGHT CAT

The cute, little cat Nero had been found CATEGORY TV series on the street when he was a kitten. He TARGET AUDIENCE Children grew up as a beloved house cat and has no memories of the world outside of his home. But with the help of a bat called Betty, he becomes a super hero at night who defends the streets. His owners aren’t supposed to find out about his secret super hero identity, as well as his enemies should never find out, that he is a spoiled house cat during daytime. To keep his secret, he’s only turning into “Night Cat” when everybody is asleep. To protect his identity, he is blackening Jessica Drechsler Nina Schwarz all his white spots with soot, so he gets {Germany} {Germany} nearly invisible in the dark. (49) (163) 279 47 42 (49) (176) 568 82 802 [email protected] [email protected] Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical ORC INC.

Even the strongest heroes and villains CATEGORY TV series need a little support sometimes. Maybe TARGET AUDIENCE Family it’s due to faulty equipment, maybe it’s instructions they don’t understand on their newly delivered item or even the installation of a new cauldron in their lair - at Orc Inc every call is unique. We follow the adventures of ‘Colin’, one of the many Orcs working at the helpdesk. As he tries to help heroes/ anti-heroes with their problems, he also Coen Balkestein Paul De Vrijer Laura Stout tries to navigate the corporate Orc Life. Knisper {Netherlands} Knisper {Netherlands} (31) (68) 18 65 09 {Netherlands} Office crushes, bullying, kissing up and (31) (63) 73 96 52 (31) (62) 64 72 77 deadlines. Maybe navigation inside the devrijer.paul@ coen_balkestein@ l.stout@ corporate office is even more harrowing gmail.com hotmail.com student.avans.nl than the insane adventures outside. www.pauldevrijer.com www.knisperanima- laurastout.com tion.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical RAVENCLAWS

In the last night of summer holidays Jackie Silvestri accidentally awakes in Fantasyland, where the hog-goblins mistake him for a hero of a fairytale who CATEGORY Feature film is destined to save the princess of the TARGET AUDIENCE Young adults/adults withering kingdom. Only then he will be able to travel back home to see his best friend (and secret love) Kalle for the last time. But Jackie is not alone in his quest to the fortress of Ravenclaws to break the spell. A company of the most deranged warriors will join him: the transvestite queen and the flam- boyant king of the hog-goblins. At the end of his journey and after José Navarro surviving deadly dangers, Jackie will embrace his true feelings and find the {Spain} courage to confess his love to Kalle. (44) (795) 183 65 75 [email protected] Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical SOFT QUEER STORIES (NO ONE DIES)

Two boys that meet under the stars, grow up together, fall in love, and spend their lives together. A fierce drag queen dance-off between two power- ful opposing drag houses, belonging to two married drag queens. A trans man who’s married to the world’s greatest CATEGORY TV series Superhero, and greets him when he TARGET AUDIENCE Family gets back home from saving the world. A quirky barista that gets a crush on a cute deaf girl and learns sign language to take her order, and ask her on a date. A genderqueer gardener that’s growing a body for their wife out of cacti. A suc- cubus that’s hired by an asexual man who just wants to cuddle and eat ice cream. Soft Queer Stories (No One Dies) is an Alex Tagali Mikaela Kakaridi Deligianni {Greece} {Greece} anthology series of short, soft, queer love stories, where everyone gets a (30) (694) 919 23 32 (30) (699) 597 04 23 happy ending. [email protected] [email protected] www.tagalialex.com www.behance.net/mikaelakadel Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical TALES OF ZALE

In a world where overgrown, aban- CATEGORY TV series doned human structures tower above TARGET AUDIENCE Children the trees, a young, bright-eyed fox named Zale, sets out to uncover his past - and in the process ends up learning a bit about life, death, and everything in-between.

Sif Savery {Denmark} (45) 26 81 42 62 [email protected] www.sifps.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical THE DUCKS

An excited Mari Carmen starts her first CATEGORY TV series day at work at the International Sales TARGET AUDIENCE Family Office, but not everything will go as she expects. A duck has appeared in the balcony calling everyone’s attention and turning upside down the day that Mari Carmen wanted to have a fresh start.

Ángela Arregui Chavarría Ana María Hernández Pérez {Spain} {Spain} (34) (609) 74 38 73 (34) (674) 79 35 96 [email protected] [email protected] angela-arregui.tumblr.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical THE LEGEND OF JACK

After defying fate to make a name for himself, famous outlaw Jack o’Lantern decided to tackle the forces of evil to CATEGORY TV series rebuild his image. His deeds incurred TARGET AUDIENCE Family the wrath of the Devil himself, who decided to unleash a vengeful curse on him, resulting in the death of his beloved wife Diane. Once a lonesome pariah, then a cursed hero, his name and story are legendary and inspired the Halloween celebration. In a quest for hellish redemption, he now has to team up with two funny but reckless Aurélien Fromentin gargoyles to save Diane. Together, they Hierographix {France} fight in a world of monsters and magic, (33) (6) 67 21 56 37 but no one is safe from the secrets of the pits... [email protected] www.aurelienfromentin.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT SKULL

The Legend of The Great Skull is an animated serial whose protagonist is Berind. After years of solitary living, this small and angry character has the chance to travel out of his comfort zone CATEGORY TV series to conquer a treasure that will prove TARGET AUDIENCE Teenagers him a valiant orc. Berind comes from a clan of orcs that takes pride in slaying creatures, but he’s a different kind. Respectful and cu- rious, he saved Francis when they were young, and for that he was forced to flee his community. He’s committed to explore and learn, rather than raid and kill. Berind is about to confront the truth Lamberto Anderloni behind his feelings of anger and frus- (353) (083) 346 73 02 tration, and find a new source of {Italy} acceptance and worth. [email protected] www.lambertoanderloni.com Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical WILD TIME

”Wild Time” is a pre-school series that CATEGORY TV series follows 7-year-old Hannah who has the TARGET AUDIENCE Pre-school gift to converse with all kinds of creatures, big or small. With her new found ability, Hannah enrolls the help of her kooky pet cockatoo and her forgetful terrapin to help answer the emergency ‘Critter Call’ of an endangered animal. Each episode sees Hannah and the crew navigate the world in the wind powered Critter Mobile, as they set off on a rescue mission. However, can she Deborah Tan save the day and make it back in time JAM Media {Ireland} for dinner at Nana Amelia’s? (353) (834) 19 14 14 [email protected] www.jammedia.com

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Daniel Bays Lightning Sprite Media {United Kingdom} Passionate about creating outstanding content with heart, soul, and digital baked in, Daniel is a BAFTA-nominated Creator, multi-platform Producer, and Show-runner, who created and brought to screen international hit preschool animated series: Tree Fu Tom and Bitz & Bob. Avid gamer, technology nut, animation addict, professional ideas thinker-upper, Developer and Producer of multi-platform wonderments, Daniel left the BBC in 2016, after 15 years working across platforms and age groups, to set up Lightning Sprite Media, which offers creative and digital consultancy, end-to-end development and production services, specialising in animation, digital and games for children and families. Daniel also continues to create his own new shows, games, brands and digital experiences that will hopefully become the next big global cross-platform smash hits.

Eleanor Coleman INDIE SALES {France} Eleanor Coleman is a Paris-based American Producer working inde- pendently in animated feature film acquisition, development and production with Indie Sales (Voted Best European Distributor at Cartoon Movie in 2015). Her cartoon series work concentrates on international development and pre-sales for the award-winning French studio, Blue Spirit. Eleanor is a founding member and co-vice President of Les Femmes S’animent, part of the global Women in Animation network. Eleanor also devotes as much time as possible to promoting Tostan, a human rights NGO in West Africa, dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls in rural communities. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Manuel Cristóbal {Spain} Spanish Film Producer, AMPAS member, PhD in Film Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, Manuel Cristóbal graduated in directing at ARTSS International UK and in the Entertainment Master Class at the Erich Pommer Institute in Berlin. Since 2001, he has produced ten feature films for the international market, including seven films in animation, he has won four Goya awards in the best animation feature category, and he was twice winner of the Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Manuel Cristóbal was an Executive Producer in the films The living forest (first CGI animation film in Europe) and Midsummer Dream. In 2005, he joined Zinkia as Development and Distribution Director. In 2007, he created Perro Verde Films, and produces five films, among them the CGI animation film The Missing Lynx (presented by Antonio Banderas) and the 2D feature film “Wrinkles” (Ignacio Ferreras, 2012), released in Japan by Ghibli. From 2012 till 2014, he worked as an Executive Producer in the animation film “Another day of life” (Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018), which had its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, he announced the production of “Dragonkeeper”, a 20 million € CGI animation family film copro- duced by Spain and China, which will be released in 2021. In 2019, he premiered the 2D animation film “Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles” directed by Salvador Simó. Until recently, he was Secretary of the Board in Cartoon (European Animation Producer’s Guild), Member of the Board in the Spanish Film Academy, Vice-President in DIBOOS (Spanish Animation Producer’s Guild) and is production Teacher at the U-TAD University in Madrid. In 2012, he got the CARTOON Tribute as best animation producer of Europe. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Frank Dietz SUPERRTL {Germany} Frank Dietz, Head of Acquisitions and Co-Productions, joined Super RTL in 2000. Super RTL is the European leader in children’s television, jointly owned by RTL Group and Walt Disney International Television. Frank manages the channel’s programme supply for daytime and primetime, including content for various platforms such as merchandising, mobile and online services. The channel broadcasts more than 5000 half hours of animation, live action documentaries, comedy formats and pre-school productions, as well as hundreds of family movies per year. In order to secure the best content for the network, Frank has developed partnerships with majors, independent distributors and producers worldwide. Before joining Super RTL, Frank was Manager of Acquisitions and Co-Productions at ZDF Enterprises, the distribution company of Germany’s public broad- caster ZDF, which he joined in 1996. He started his career at BMG France where he was in charge of international sales and marketing of local music productions.

Yago Fandiño Lousa Radio Televisión Española {Spain} With over 15 years’ experience in integrated Interactive/TV projects, Yago Fandiño has linked his life and career to new communication technologies, and more specifically, to communication and children’s entertainment. Trained in journalism, he has been Deputy Director of Children’s Interactive Content at RTVE, and Online Editor for the Fox Kids and Jetix websites in Spain. He is currently the Head of Children Content at TVE, responsible for the production of children’s TV programmes and interactive development. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Nuria González Blanco Cartoon Saloon {Ireland} Nuria González Blanco is an Academy Awards-nominee Producer, working in Ireland-based animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Nuria studied Animation at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and for the last eight years, she has been working across the full spectrum of animation production roles in children’s television, advertising and film. Past projects include the award-winning short film Violet, the International Emmy® Kids Award Nominee “Puffin Rock”, the Golden Globe® and Oscar® nominated feature “The Breadwinner” and the IFTA winner and Oscar® nominated short “Late Afternoon”.

Craig Hunter Sony Pictures Television {United Kingdom} Highly experienced International Content Specialist for Kids and family, Craig currently works for Sony Pictures Television as the Senior Channel Manager of Kids (Western Europe International Networks) with responsibility for the Pop channels, acquisitions and programming across the UK, Italy, Africa and Pakistan. Over the last 6 years he’s credited with helping to grow the POP brand to become the number 1 kids commercial channel in the UK. Prior to that, he spent years as a Creative Executive at Nickelodeon after working at Disney across on-air & production. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Joseph Jacquet France Télévisions {France} Born in 1971, Joseph Jacquet has been working for 20 years in the book field. First Editor in children’s books and art books, he found- ed L’Ampoule, his own publishing company with Olivier Douzou in 2002. In 2003, he created another company, Deux éditeurs, where he developed and completed until 2011 many books and collections for children, comics and art. He also worked on several transmedia projects with Le Monde, Télérama and other publishers. At the same time, he took the lead of a professional school for publishers and became an Author with Christel Gonnard of TV series such as “Milly Miss Question” (France 5), “Les blagues de Toto” (M6) or “Plankton Invasion” (CANAL+). In 2011, he started working for France Télévisions group to develop the publishing activity of its subsidiary: France Télévisions Distribution. In January 2013, he joined the Children and Youth Programmes Department of France Télévisions as Research and Development Animation Manager.

Telidja Klaï Ketnet / VRT {Belgium} Telidja Klaï studied Clinical Psychology at the Free University of Brussels. She specialized in Developmental Psychology and obtained a PhD in Clinical and Developmental Psychology. Telidja is responsible for the Programme acquisitions and Co-productions of animation for Ketnet. She is in charge of the selection, sales, ad- aptation and programming of international children’s programmes and she follows up on animation co-productions with Flemish animation studios and producers. The main thrust of her activities is the development of children and Ketnet’s vision and values. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Antoine Maurel La Chouette Compagnie {France} After beginning his career as a freelance Journalist, Antoine Maurel became a comics Writer, which led him to become an Editor at Le Lombard, a publishing house, for five years -an activity he still carries over to this day through a bit of freelance publishing. But since 2016, he came back to his primary aspirations and has written comics, video games and animation series. Nowadays, he’s mainly writing the latter as well as helping La Chouette Compagnie developing new shows for TV, always envisioning transmedia synergies and storytelling in the process.

Karen Mitrega Storyegg {Germany} Karen Mitrega is working as Script Producer, Creative Producer, Editor and Script and Development Consultant for Super RTL and other companies through her company Storyegg. Until October 2014 she was Head of Children’s Content at Super RTL. She was responsible for the development, co-production and acquisition of new series and magazines as well as the website www.toggo.de. Before joining Super RTL in 2004, Karen was working as Production Manager for several international feature film productions. Karen has a degree in Film and TV producing from the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg, Germany. She is working in the industry for more than 20 years. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Sarah Muller BBC Children {United Kingdom} Sarah Muller has just re-joined Children’s BBC as the Head of Independent Animation and Acquisitions. Previously, she was Vice President of Children’s and Youth Programming at Sony Pictures Television with responsibility for the Pop and Sony Music Channels and before that, Sarah was Head of Children’s at Channel 5, where she was responsible for the Milkshake! brand refresh, content port- folio overhaul, and studio reorganisation. She was also Creative Director, Scripted, Animation and Co-Productions for CBBC In- House, a role that grew from her work as Head of CBBC Acquisitions, Animation and Drama Development. Passionate about all Kids’ content, but especially Drama and Animation, commissioned projects include “Danger Mouse”, “Strange Hill High”, “Creeped Out”, “Harriet’s Army”, “Wolfblood”, “The Dumping Ground”, “The Worst Witch”, “Katie” and “Just William”. Prior to joining BBC Children’s, she was Managing Director of Elephant Productions. As a Producer, credits include 6 series of the multi-award winning ratings success “Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids”(CITV), “Animal School” (CBBC), “Pop Skool” (BBC1), “3 Brothers Diamond” (C4), and “New Willo The Wisp” (Disney) as well as developing the BAFTA-winning drama series “The War Diaries of Alastair Fury” (BBC1).

Emmanuèle Pétry Sirvin Dandelooo {France} Emmanuèle has been able to bring together her passion for books into the world of animation thanks to “the Treehouse Stories” series on Canal+. But this programme is only the youngest of all of her “ba- bies”. As Head of the European office of Nelvana for 17 years, she helped many programmes get made and moreover be watched all over the world: “Babar”, “The adventures of Tintin”, “Franklin the Turtle”, “Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear”, “Rolie Polie Olie”. She also initiated “Mouk” when in Charge of Development at Millimages. Now a happy Partner at Paris-based studio Dandelooo, she is nurturing “Stinky Dog” for France Télévisions and the newest kid on the block: «Billy the Hamster Cowboy». Her strong experience in the international distribution allows her to share her enthusiasm for children’s programmes with broadcasters from Iceland to Hong Kong, from South Africa to Argentina. At Cartoon Forum in 2017, Dandelooo received the Cartoon Tribute for Best Producer of the year. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Stephan Roelants Melusine Productions / Studio 352 {Luxembourg} Professionally active for almost 30 years in the audiovisual area, Stephan Roelants created Studio 352 in Luxembourg in 1997, an animation studio whose founding team is still active today, sur- rounded by an average of forty artists. At the same time, he set up his production company, Melusine Productions, which is mainly dedicated to animation and documentary. In over 20 years, Stephan participated in the production of 60 TV series and 18 feature-length movies. Among the most emblematic and awarded are “Ernest and Celestine”, “Song of the Sea”, “Ethel & Ernest”, and “The Breadwinner”.

Barbara Slade Blue arrow Production {United Kingdom} Barbara Slade is a Writer, Creator and Executive Producer. Born in L.A, but now based in London, Barbara has extensive experience in the animation industry with credits on series such as “Rugrats”, “Winnie the Pooh”, “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Angelina Ballerina”. She is creator of “Dead Gorgeous” (CBBC/ABC) and “Hi Opie” (TVO/Netflix), and has won numerous awards throughout her career. Barbara consults with production companies and channels around the world and also leads writing and series development workshops through her company “The Story Academy”. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Alexi Wheeler Netflix{United Kingdom} Across his career, Alexi has produced/executive produced over 200 hours of content aimed at pre-schoolers and 6-to-12-year olds both in live-action and animation. Alexi has experience in varying areas of the children’s media industry from creating/developing content, commissioning and producing programming, through to the structuring of production budgets and selling in of content. Alexi has also implemented global schemes, including the very successful Nickelodeon International Shorts Programme and the International Pre-School Shorts Initiative. Alexi’s extensive experience in children’s media and broadcasting includes production and development positions at Contender Entertainment, Rubber Duck, HRTV, EOne Family, Squarezero as well as a stint as Managing Director and Founder of the creative consultancy and independent production company, Plimmy Ltd. In 2010, Alexi moved into broadcasting, working in Acquisitions and Programming for Nickelodeon UK before taking a Production and Development role with the Nickelodeon International team. Since then, he has worked his way up from Management level to that of Vice President. In September 2018, Alexi moved to Netflix to take on a new London- based role, focusing on kids and family content for Europe, The Middle East and Africa. Credits include Executive Producer on “Peppa Pig”, “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”, EIC on “Nella the Princess Knight”, “Zack and Quack” and “Tickety Tock”, Producer on “Humf” (BAFTA nominated), Production Manager on “Fireman Sam” as well as additional roles on content including “Lost and Found”, “Olive the Ostrich”, “Wanda and the Alien” and “The House of Anubis”. Over the last six years, Alexi has also unearthed, developed and acted as EIC for more than 35 International Nickelodeon Shorts produced globally as well as multiple pilots. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Mark Cumberton JAM Media {Ireland} Mark is currently Series Producer for “Jessy and Nessy” - 40 X 11 minutes for Amazon Studios and was recently Series Producer for “Becca’s Bunch” - 52 x 11 minutes for Nickelodeon US & UK. He has completed Producing “Little Roy” – 52 x 14 minutes for CBeebies & CBBC and has produced “Zig & Zag, Zogcasts” and “Roy” series 3 & 4. He was also the Producer on the original “Roy” 01-04 series, “Baby Jake”, “PICME”, and the Media funded, “Tilly and Friends” and “Funky Fables”. “Roy” has won numerous international awards including BAFTA, RTS and Kidscreen. Mark has produced several short films, most notably the Irish Film Board funded “Badly Drawn Roy” and “Escape”. Mark has been the Chief Operations Officer & Co-founder of JAM Media since its inception in 2002. His position makes him responsible for the smooth running of all operations and productions by the company, ensuring that all productions are consistent with the world class high standard syn- onymous with JAM. Prior to co-founding JAM Media, Mark worked with Walt Disney Feature animation on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Hercules” in Paris and Los Angeles, and also with Don Bluth Studios in Ireland as a Special Effects Animator.

Kèota Dengmanara Moukda Production {France} Kèota Dengmanara is the Founder and Producer of MOUKDA PRODUCTION. She is a graduate of the HEC MS Entrepreneurs as part of the “Nos quartiers ont des talents” programme and GOBELINS Audiovisual Production Management course. Kèota has experience in the strategic management of Lagardère Entertainment as well as in production crew management within Xilam (2D) and TeamTO (3D) animation studios. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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José Prats {Spain} José Prats is an Illustrator, Writer and Director from Spain, based between Valencia and Manchester. He works as a freelance Illustrator for the award-winning studio Aardman Animations. In 2012 he graduated in Fine Arts and later he specialised in filmmaking and scriptwriting, taking various courses and workshops. In 2017, he was selected to the animation laboratory Animation Sans Frontières, organised by four European-renowned animation schools. He is alumni of Go Short Campus, a workshop for young European live-action filmmakers, offered by Nijmegen International Short Film Festival. His personal work as a writer & a director spreads across live-action and animation mediums. He has recently released his second live-action short film, “Purple Scarf”, which is about to start its festival run. In addition, José is currently developing “Umbrellas”, a traditional animation short film co-produced by Bígaro Films and Moukda Productions.

Álvaro Robles García {Spain} Álvaro Robles pursued a professional career as a Copywriter in several advertising agencies in Madrid, while completing his Graduate Degree in Direction and Screenwriting at Metropolis Film School. Together with José Prats, he co-directed and wrote the live action short film “Mara, Maravillas”, screened at several international festivals. He has also completed his Master’s Degree in Screenwriting at the University of Sevilla, obtaining the highest score with his final project, a script for a feature film: “Au Pair”. Currently, he is distrib- uting his latest work, the live action short film “If you can’t” (“Si no puedes”) and co-directing a 2D-animated short film, “Umbrellas”, project selected in events such as 3DWire, Animac, Prime the Animation and Cartoon Springboard. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Christophe Erbes Kids Media ©nsulting {France} Christophe studied maths, telecommunication science and holds an MBA. After having done some kids TV (CANAL+, Super-RTL, Nickelodeon, Disney), he now consults (Orange, Ubisoft, EBU, TF1 International, MFG, Magelis, Normaal, Copenhagen Bombay), hosts (Mip Jr and Mip, Annecy, APD, Cartoon, European Animation Awards) and writes as Theo de Marcousin (see Facebook) books, movies and series (e.g. “Maya the Bee”, “Calimero”, “Ella, Oscar & Hoo”, “Driver Dan’s Story Train”, “Squids”, “Flying Squirrels”, “Kiwi and Stritt” & “Shelland”).

Joan Lofts Joan Lofts Media {United Kingdom} Freelance media Consultant, Joan Lofts started her career in TV production with ITN and Thames Television. She then moved to the BBC where she was Deputy Head of Acquisitions and Development for Children’s BBC. She joined the Children’s Channel and launched teen Channel Trouble and continued her Channel career with Disney, Kindernet, Saga, Children’s ITV and ITV2. From November 2000, she was Director of TV and Production at Contender Entertainment (now EOne) where she managed “Tractor Tom”, “Peppa Pig”, “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom”, “Humf” and a C4 special “Lost and Found”. Since 2009 she has been working worldwide running Creating IP and Pitching workshops in emerging animation territories. She works with emerging European animation companies helping with development of projects to pitch. She is also part of the European Media initiative for European animation. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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David Matamoros Doce Entertainment {Spain} David is a Producer who simultaneously combines cinematograph- ic filmmaking and writing. He was involved in animation, where he managed co-productions, script analysis and marketing. He has produced over 15 features and TV shows to date. He joined Zentropa in 2009.

Manuela Schöbel-Lumb {Germany} Manuela Lumb is a very experienced animation and live action Producer for Kids and Family programmes. Skilled in development, production and brand management, she is also experienced in fund raising and financing. She has a wide international network and loves to bring talents together. For many years, she was Commissioning Editor at public broadcasters SWR and WDR, where she was responsible for the iconic programme “The Show with the Mouse”. In 2008, she became Head of Children´s and Family Programme at Berlin- based Studio TVFilm, where, among others, she developed and produced Germany´s most famous preschool brand “Kikaninchen” for KIKA. After working as Head of Development for the animation production company Motionworks, she started working as an independent Creative Producer and Consultant.

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Lamberto Anderloni {Italy} The Legend of The Great Skull Lamberto is an aspiring animation Director from Milano, Italy. With a background in Fine Arts and a BA in Communication Design, he graduated from The Animation Workshop in 2019 with the student film “Animals”, where he worked as a storyboard artist, designer and animator. After several internships in different European animation studios, he currently works as a posing artist for Cartoon Saloon’s feature film ‘Wolfwalkers’.

Ángela Arregui Chavarría {Spain} The ducks Ángela is an animation apprentice and currently Director of web series “The ducks”. She’s an animation passionate and loves to express herself through it making social criticism, always with sense of humour and feminism as indispensable tools for her projects.

José Balbuena {Spain} BFFS! Best Friends Forever Stranded! I’m Jose Balbuena. I’m from Torremolinos, a small town in southern Spain. While growing up I developed a huge passion for art and storytelling. I moved to Madrid to study animation, and got my first industry job. Then I moved to LA, and then Ireland, tokeep expanding my knowledge, and learn directly from the artists I admired. Through meeting different people on my journey, I’ve realized how interesting my home culture is. This motivates me to tell stories with my own cultural background. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Coen Balkestein {Netherlands} Knisper Orc Inc. With Knisper we connect and help cultivate the ideas of young and inspiring storytellers. Our main activities revolve around producing short animated films and commercials. Our next step is to produce an animated series. In 2018, I graduated with a BA (With Honours) in animation. I have been selected as a Young Talent at Cartoon Movie 2019 as well as at Cartoon Springboard 2018. In addition, I won the Dutch Film Producer Award in 2018.

Roberto Bianchi {Argentina} A.S.S. Passionate about drawing since childhood. He Studied art course at the UNC Fine Arts Mendoza in Argentina. He has worked as a cartoonist in press and events since 1993. In 2017, through the Animation Master of the Barreira School, he began his adventure in the world of animation.

Domagoj Bogdan {Croatia} Lilly of the Valley Domagoj was born in Zagreb, Croatia. After finishing classical gymnasium he started studying Latin language and literature and Indology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In 2015, he was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of animation and new media, where he is currently finishing his BA short film thesis. During his studies he worked for Recircle studio on their series for kids “Misho and Robin”, as well as led animation workshops. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Irene Camporeale {Italy} Maskas HEKA Irene was born in Monza in 1994. During her childhood she became passionate about movies thanks to her mother who used to take her in the small cinema of the town. After the highschool she attended the Luchino Visconti Cinema school in Milan and graduated in screenwriting. She also got the chance to study writing for videogames and develop one in a team. Irene is now working for a Television production company based in Milan but she also writes her own projects such as movie or tv series script.

Federica Carbone {Italy} Maskas HEKA Since I was a kid I was very passionate about fantasy stories. My dream is to be in that stories and sometimes I can, when I write and develop artistic concepts. I started at 15 years old in a analogic photography high school, then I shouted and directed some artistic project. I work for many clients as an Author and motion Designer, then in my freetime I work for my personal stories and with groups of artists in team projects as the beautiful “HEKA”!

Tom Chertier {France} Jean-Claude, pocket assistant After studying in Applied Arts, I have a Master II degree in Animation Cinema from the Institut Supérieur Couleur Image Design. Now, I combine a practice as an Author-Director and as a freelance Illustrator.

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Irene Chica {Spain} Wackamola Home Villa Tours Irene Chica (Cádiz, 1991) is an Artist, Scriptwriter and Director. She has recently launched the studio of creative development WACKAMOLA, from where she develops the original series: “The Wind-Ups”, with Autour de Minuit (France); “Home Villa Tours”, with Peekaboo (Spain) and Inkchotics. The artist also works as a Scriptwriter for other productions (Ecuador-Chile, Finland). Her short film project “Mundo Menudo” (with potential for a TV series) has just won the first edition of the CLAN Talent Quirino Award.

Marine Cortier {France} Holy Shit! Born in Moulin (03, France), I rapidly oriented myself toward all kinds of artistic hobbies. I took drawing classes from the age of 5, then gradually turned to different means of expression; such as sculpture, photography, and mostly creative writing. Having a real passion for telling stories, I chose to follow a cinematic formation in animation for 5 years, which I finished in March of 2019. Owning a glider’s pilot’s certificate and a skydiving license, I turn towards these activities as a source of inspiration in my everyday life, as well as work.

Paul De Vrijer {Netherlands} Orc Inc. With a background in Psychology, Paul uses his degree to enrich his stories and his characters. He loves combining the classic genres (horror / thriller / fantasy) with important social topics. For its focus on diversity, the Nickelodeon show “Hunter Street” he wrote, was nominated for a BAFTA.

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Flora Delaby {France} Jean-Claude, pocket assistant After studying literature and theatre, I work in the transmission of literature and writing. Today, I collaborate as an Author on animation projects.

Elodie Dermange {Switzerland} My granny is a terror Born in 1992, Élodie Dermange is a Swiss animation Director and a professional Illustrator. She obtained an illustration degree in 2012 in Geneva. In 2017, she directed her first animated short movie “Intimity” which won the Grand prix at the Tampere International short film festival and has been selected at the Sundance film festival. In 2019 she completed her course at l’école de la Poudrière, where she directed “Linette” for the channel Tiji and her graduation film “Inès”. She is now developing several projects as an Animation Director.

Jessica Drechsler {Germany} Night Cat Jessica Drechsler (born 1988) is an Animator, concept Artist and Director. After graduation from high school in 2009, she first studied communication design in Munich and then she studied animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In April 2019 she graduated as an Animator with her diploma project “Night Cat”. Now she is working as an Animator and motion Designer back in Munich.

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Cilian DuBock {United Kingdom} HagBox3 Hey Pappy Cilian DuBock is a comedy Writer / Director born in Ireland and made in Bristol with professional experience as a stop-motion animator and digital illustrator. He has a very unique style and a particular strength for writing adult comedies. In his free time he likes to write rude comic strips, illustrate characters and create stop-motion comedy skits in his dungeon.

Aurélien Fromentin {France} Hierographix The Legend of Jack With a Master 2 director, I specialize in 3D computer graphics and projection video-mapping and game cinematics for clients as varied as prestigious (Ford, Thales, Ubisoft, BMW,YSL, AUDI, Museums,FR2...). In parallel, for several years now, I have been working on the development and writing of an animation series project telling the story of the Halloween origin, called “ The Legend of Jack”, presented at the Annecy Festival 2019.

David Gallego {Spain} A.S.S. I enter in the world of Animation because I love video-games. At the present, I continue studying Arts and Design at the ESAT school, and I would like to get to do my personal own projects.

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Anastasia Heinzl {France} Grandma’s Pond Anastasia graduated from Gobelins in production and CEEA (Screenwriting school) in Paris. She is a freelance Writer based in Paris. She worked in Finland as script Editor on “Angry Birds Toons” series (Rovio Entertainment). She graduated from Animation Sans Frontières in 2018 and is part of the French writers collective “Le Cliff”.

Ana María Hernández Pérez {Spain} The Ducks Graduated in audiovisual communication, student of the master’s degree in 2D animation by the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Screenwriter and animator in the short film “The Ducks”. Specializing in the creation of video clips, she has also made numerous humorous sketches.

Mikaela Kakaridi Deligianni {Greece} Soft Queer Stories (No One Dies) Mikaela Kakaridi Deligianni is an Animator and Illustrator working as a freelancer based in Athens, Greece. Since graduating with a Middlesex University (hons) degree in Animation and Interactive Media she has been working on several projects amongst professionals such as Anastasia Dimitra, Effie Pappa, Irida Zhonga, and Kostas Mpakouris. As a freelancer, she’s had the chance to work on animation shorts, posters, promotional material, and even props for first aid seminars but her love will always remain on storytelling. She took her first steps in photoshop at Math Studio. She has collaborated with Asifa Hellas, and she is currently working on various short films that are in development. Her personal work has been accepted and pitched at festivals such as Athens Animation Agora and Annecy (2018). She is the Writer and Director of “Painted” which earned a place at Animasyros 2017, and the Writer of “Tag! You’re it!” a project that was accepted and pitched at Cartoon Springboard 2017. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Ludka Kierczak {Poland} Kosmonaut Lost Enthusiasm At Kosmonaut, Ludka develops projects for TV series and films. She gained experience as a freelancer, working on feature films, short films and music videos. Ludka graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Film and TV Production at the Łódź Film School. She also completed the ‘Script’ screenwriting programme at the Wajda School. Ludka is a member of the Young Producers Section of the Polish Producers Alliance. Ludka comes from Poland, currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic.

Jakub Kostal {Czech Republic} Bionaut Lost Enthusiasm After many years spent working in the monasticism of Czech Television, Jakub eventually decided to spread his wings. His love for cinema took him first to FAMU, where he studied production, and then to Bionaut, where he currently works as a Producer. He produced the short film Leshy (more than 70 festivals worldwide and acquired by HBO Europe). He has twice taken part in the MIDPOINT Script Development Programme and also attended ACE Training Days 2019. He is part of the Planet Dark fanzine.

Hector Kuenzler-Byrt {United Kingdom} HagBox3 Hey Pappy Hector loves to create narrative driven hybrid animations. He focuses predominantly on the screenwriting and directing aspects of production, although he is also a competent stop-motion Animator. Hector likes to get heavily involved in every aspect of a production he is working on, as it allows him to convey the desired style and tone. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Alberto Longo {Italy} Maskas HEKA My name is Alberto, I’m a 2D Animator working for Green Ink Animation in Trento. Animation wasn’t in my first plans: I liked drawing maps and my own characters (monsters, most of all), but the music and listening stories were my first interesting during my childhood. I studied classical high school, before attending the course of Cultural Heritage Sciences at the University in the same city. I felt in love with the creative process behind every animated story and discovering how inert characters come to life: that’s how I threw myself. To recover my shortcomings, I attended the Luchino Visconti Civic School and for one year the evening course of the Castello Sforzesco School in Milan. The movie that made my childhood were “the Iron Giant” by Brad Bird; the one who gave me a kick to start learning animation was “The Secret of Kells” by Cartoon Saloon. In addition to animation, I love trekking mountains during the summer...and snowboarding during the winter. I learned to believe in a good team playing rugby and to improve self- confidence practicing some styles of combat. I’m quite anerd: loving board games, roleplay games and videogames, that’s are an incredible way to take inspiration too.

Robert Lönnqvist {Finland} Bad To The Boner Robert Johan Lönnqvist (b.1988) is a visual Storyteller and Leonardo DiCaprio look-a-like from Helsinki Finland.

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Rocío Mira {Spain} Home Villa Tours Rocío Mira (Madrid, 1993) is an Illustrator, visual Developer and character Designer. In recent years, she has collaborated in the pre-production of short films such as “Mad in Xpain” by Coke Riobóo; “Me, a Monster?” by Belinda Bonan or “Sin remite” by Valle Comba. She has also participated as Ink and Paint in the film “Klaus” by The SPA Studios. Currently, she is getting involved in animation series directed by Eva Pérez Misa and Irene Chica.

Aurélie Monteix {France} My granny is a terror Born in 1992, Aurélie Monteix is a French animation Director. She obtains a mention in a school in visual communication in 2012. In 2016, she obtain a diploma at Emile Cohl school. In 2017 she directed a movie clip for the group Alpaga. In parallel she worked at Xilam on “Oggy and the cafards” and “Paprika” a TV serie. In 2019 she completed her course at l’école de la Poudrière, where she directed her graduation film “Hannibal the elephant”.

José Navarro {Spain} Ravenclaws Fantastic stories of outcasts and challenging and provocative visuals were meant to meet sooner than later in my life. Moving pictures got me mesmerized since little, and after finishing my art studies I found the next field for exploration and experiment in the animation industry. From artsy studios like Cartoon Saloon to hi- end VFX facilities like DNeg, I have always been involved in projects that allow me to grow and get inspired from the great people that make them possible every day. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Julita Olszewska {Poland} Kosmonaut Lost Enthusiasm Julita Olszewska is a Writer and Model by profession. She studied at the University of Warsaw and The Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles. She finished the Script Programme at the Wajda School. She is a co-Founder of the Gerlsy Foundation that supports women in film. She runs creative writing workshops. Julita debuted with the film “Into the Spiral” directed by Konrad Aksinowicz, film had a cinema distribution and now is on Netflix. Julita mainly writes scripts for animation, and she loves it.

Nathan Otaño {France} Blue Figures Through storytelling, Nathan Otaño strives to create experiences which will help his audience get a better knowledge of the inter- subjective realities around which human beings revolve. Graduate of GOBELINS, l’école de l’image as a Conceptor and Director of animated films, he co-directed there the short movie “When I Replaced Camille”. The film was selected by many international festivals and rewarded during The National Animation Film Festival in Rennes, the Monstra festival in Lisbonne and the International Film Festival of Cervino. After his studies, Nathan worked mainly as Animator, Storyboarder and Director. Seeking versality in his abilities, he constantly works at different steps of animated films pipeline.

Massimo Ottoni {Italy} Ibrido Anselmo Wannabe Massimo Ottoni was born in Ascoli Piceno on 1984. After graduation in Literature, Music and Show Business at La Sapienza University of Rome he majored in animation at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Turin with the short film Imperium Vacui (2014). In the following years he worked as a freelance making commercials, commissioned films and his animation short movies “Lo Steinway” (2016), “Water Hunters” (2016), “Corkscrewed” (2019). He teaches animation and he’s co-Founder of Ibrido Studio. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Eliška Podzimková {Czech Republic} Baldies Eliška Podzimková is a Czech Animator, Illustrator, Photographer and Artist now living in Prague. In 2014 she graduated from the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříčka in Písek. Not just because of your @AnimateNY instagram profile (now @eliskap) has received US overseas recognition. She fulfilled her dream and lived and worked in hers the most popular city - New York. Instagram literally changed her life and brought it cooperation that this small-town lady would not even dream of. She made opening credits for Jamie Oliver´s chef show, the front pages of New York Metro or illustrated photos for American Vogue. Now she is working on interesting projects back in the Czech Republic. She worked on various projects with Czech artists. Now she works on her now web animated series called “Baldies” for oncologically ill children because Eliška experienced the cancer treatment herself and wants to approach it as optimistic as possible. In next months, there is the new edition of a Little Prince, which Eliška illustrated and photographed in Iceland.

Almudena Sancho {Spain} A.S.S. I studied Theater Scenography in Madrid and since 2003 I have been doing all kinds of works in theater from the most technical to stage design, costumes, and especially lighting. Love for drawing and cinema leads me in 2017 to study the Animation Master at Barreira School. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Sif Savery {Denmark} Tales of Zale Sif Perlt Savery grew up in the flash-era of animation, where young animation talents would gather to produce independent content under strict deadlines on the internet - giving her a backlog of more than an hour of animated content, including the initial web- episodes of her current project, “Tales of Zale”. After entering The Animation Workshop in 2015, she among other things co-directed environmental awareness 3D short “Waiting Room” for NGO Plastic Change; worked as a Writer and Animation Lead on “Home on Rails”, a poem-based 2D short for preschoolers; and worked as a Storyboard Artist, Editor and Animator on her graduation film “Ur Aska”. This, while freelancing and working part-time at Studio Nørlum on Disney’s Big Hero 6 TV-series and other undisclosed projects. She further expanded her curriculum by arranging an exchange between The Animation Workshop and ChungKang College of Cultural Industries in Korea, where she learned from Mike Nguyen during the production of his upcoming feature film, “My Little World”. Later, she participated in the French Directors’ school La Poudrière’s 3-month Media Programme on TV-series and TV- special development. She rounded off her studies with a 3-month internship at Cartoon Saloon in Ireland, where she worked on the studio’s newest feature film “WolfWalkers” and helped develop the animation style and design for a very prominent animal character. Sif finally graduated from The Animation Workshop with a Bachelor in Character Animation in January 2019 and is currently working at the Open Workshop Artist Residency where she’s developing her projects as an independent Creator.

Friedrich Schäper {Germany} Studio Huckepack Grandma’s Pond Friedrich graduated in 2015 at Münster School of Design with a focus on illustration and 2D animation. After working abroad at Kilogramme Animation and Cartoon Saloon he came back to Cologne teaming up with Till Machmer to co-found Studio Huckepack, an animation Studio focusing on visual development and 2D frame by frame animation. In 2017 Friedrich participated at Animation Sans Frontières. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Nina Schwarz {Germany} Night Cat Nina Schwarz (born 1991) is a Producer, specified in animation and VFX projects. After finishing high school in 2011, she studied at the New School New York “Independent Movie Production” and several other courses. Back in Germany she did several internships at broadcasting and TV stations, for example at the NDR. Since 2014 she is studying producing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. She specialized at the Animationsinstitut in the field of animation and VFX. In April 2019 she graduated as an animation and effects Producer with her diploma project “Family Bonds”.

Ben Spybey {United Kingdom} HagBox3 Hey Pappy Ben Spybey is an Artist and Animator from Nairobi, Kenya, who loves creating mad characters and uncanny and surreal situations. His work, mostly in illustration and 2D tradigital animation, attempts to marry contemporary ideas with a style that hearkens back to the classic cartoons and comics he enjoyed as a child.

Laura Stout {Netherlands} Knisper Orc Inc. Laura Stout is a half Dutch, half Brazilian animation student, currently working her socks off as an intern for the Dutch production company Knisper. Her work is characterized by her self-reflective personality, imaginative music and expressive characters. She translates these elements into immersive animations, often with underlying philosophical and feminist tones. As a soon to be graduate she is ready to start her adventure in the animation industry. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Alex Tagali {Greece} Soft Queer Stories (No One Dies) Alex is a digital Artist and 2d Animator living in Athens, Greece. They’ve recently graduated from a BA in Animation & Interactive Media and they’re currently working as a Freelancer on a variety of projects and media, from character design to motion graphics, illustration, and comics. Their animated short “Star-Fallen” won a national award for “Best Greek Animated Film” in 2018. Previously, Alex has worked as a graphic designer in Another Circus, and collaborated with Choice of Games LLC on multiple game covers and other promotional material. Though Alex has worked in multiple different forms of art and media, the art of Storytelling, in all its different forms, is their one constant passion.

Deborah Tan {Ireland} JAM Media Wild Time Deborah Christie Tan is currently a development creative Intern in JAM Media, Dublin Ireland, having just completed her BA (Hons) in Animation in ITTralee, Tralee, Ireland with a First Class Honours. In March 2019, Deborah pitched her original concept at ‘The Big Pitcher’ in Animation Dingle. Her pitch was selected as the winner and was awarded a 6 month placement in JAM Media to develop her concept further. Deborah has previously worked as an animator back in her hometown, Malaysia.

Anita Verona {Italy} Maskas HEKA Anita is an artist since she was a child, she attended art school and completed her artistic studies with the civic school Luchino Visconti with specialization in 3D animation. Anita works as a freelance for many customers including Storyteller, who works on post production, animation and rendering in some Italian films, such as Disney’s “Berni and the Young Pharaoh”. In her spare time she works on her personal projects and various hobbies such as painting and craftsmanship. Index Officials Projects profiles participants practical

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Gaia Zavoli {Italy} Maskas HEKA Gaia Zavoli was born in Bologna in January 27th, 1994. When she was 13, went to Milan to study Architecture in Liceo Artistico di Brera. After that, she studied animation in Luchino Visconti Civic School and 3D character animation in Mykey Studios. Now she works in Swan&Koi and she is a freelance videomaker and animator. Presents...

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