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INDEX OFFICIALS PROGRAMME PROFILES PARTICIPANTS PRACTICAL PARTNERS WELCOME WORDS ANIMATION IN SARDINIA ORGANISATION COMMITTEE CARTOON DIGITAL IS ORGANISED BY WITH THE SUPPORT OF ASSOCIATION OF THE ITALIAN ANIMATION PRODUCERS IN COLLABORATION WITH CARTOON IS SPONSORED BY INDEX OFFICIALS PROGRAMME PROFILES PARTICIPANTS PRACTICAL PARTNERS WELCOME WORDS ANIMATION IN SARDINIA ORGANISATION COMMITTEE OUR PARTNERS Cartoon warmly thanks all those who have helped organise this online edition of Cartoon Digital 2021. EUROPEAN COMMISSION I Lucia RECALDE Head of Unit – Creative Europe MEDIA DG CONNECT EUROPEAN EDUCATION AND CULTURE EXECUTIVE AGENCY (EACEA) OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION I Harald E. TRETTENBREIN Head of Unit B.2 MEDIA SARDEGNA FILM COMMISSION FONDATION I Nevina SATTA General Director of Sardegna Film Commission CARTOON ITALIA I Anne-Sophie VANHOLLEBEKE President of Cartoon Italia I Cristian JEZDIC Vice-President of Cartoon Italia RAI RAGAZZI I Luca MILANO Executive Director RAI Ragazzi I Annita ROMANELLI Head of Animation and Kids Drama Production INDEX OFFICIALS PROGRAMME PROFILES PARTICIPANTS PRACTICAL PARTNERS WELCOME WORDS ANIMATION IN SARDINIA ORGANISATION COMMITTEE NomGianluca Aste FonctionPresident of Sardegna Film Commission Welcome back to sardegna, the sustainable island earest friends, we have been preparing were considering Sardinia a possible home. to welcome you all to Sardegna, our All with the support of Cartoon Italia and RAI island, for the second time in recent Ragazzi, and the complicity of our fellows at Dhistory, for months and months. Cartoon Media in the EU. We have chosen the best colors and flowers and We kept the promise, and despite the pandemic, plants for our land. We have picked up the best more than fifty animators have been trained in fruits and wine bottles to cheer the extraordinary 2D, and certified internationally to become the year we have passed. We have been chanting initial hub of our new audiovisual ecosystem for the most exciting songs with the tradition of our animation in Sardinia. More talents are gathering music and community, to make sure that our and amazing projects are coming soon, and you voices could be heard from far away. will hear their voices on screen for now. We have set up a proper table, full of delight and With the hope and desire of having you in simple food made with our hands, to share what presence, in 2022, in our wonderful homeland, has become the new ritual. We love to share with we would like to quote the last wish of a closed simplicity and dedication what we make. We call friend of NAS the graphic artist Stefano Asili, for the best creative talents to be with us, mixing who made a wish for all artists, and producers unexpected ingredients and shapes, sounds and and institutions together, for a truly amazing characters, to promote the beauty of where we shared experience in our sustainable island: live, the majesticness of our home, to enhance “… A call to beauty. the energy of the millennial traditions. To those who can see what can still be saved. To unite in dialogue the little and big things that It has all been prepared as a big party but has to already exist. be done... online. To believe that sharing the common ground is good for all, mostly for the new generations. For One more time. We have announced in 2019 at the the sake of evolution. opening of Cartoon Digital 2019 the intentionality To preserve the memory of our tradition without of the Region of Sardinia to invest in animation. losing it. Considering strategic the implementation of So that a small part remains as always within its resources and professionals in this adventure. intangible transformation.” The project NAS New Animation in Sardinia has been presented and our partners revealed. From our Sardegna Film Commission board We have called young talents from all over and team, our representatives at the regione the world: Sardinian students and young Sardegna, our NAS talents and our community professionals working abroad, foreigners that of creatives … Benebennios! Welcome back! INDEX OFFICIALS PROGRAMME PROFILES PARTICIPANTS PRACTICAL PARTNERS WELCOME WORDS ANIMATION IN SARDINIA ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Anne-Sophie Vanhollebeke President of Cartoon Italia ASSOCIATION OF THE ITALIAN ANIMATION PRODUCERS artoon Italia is the national associa- An interesting feature of the animation branch tion of the Italian animation compa- is its geographical location: when we talk about nies. It was founded in the early 1990s animation we mean a lot of studios equally to support and promote industrial and distributed all over the country. It is therefore Cartistic interests of animation on the Italian na- an industry able to strengthen all the local tional territory and abroad. It has established professional resources. strategic relations with public authorities and private institutions, broadcasters and digital In Sardinia, despite the pandemic, the platforms. NAS project (New Animation in Sardinia) funded by the Autonomous Region of The Italian industry includes 81 companies, Sardinia and promoted by the Sardegna for 5,000 employees in all, with an average of Film Commission, a production and lifelong more than 180 million euros of turnover. And learning lab aimed at making animated the industry is constantly growing thanks to projects for cinema and TV in Sardinia, it never the new financial instruments tuned up by the stopped and 50 students were trained for free Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. on Toon-Boom Harmony and Storyboard PRO. In 2020, as in any other countries in the Cartoon Italia is grateful to Cartoon Media, world, the Italian animation industry has the Sardinia Region and the Sardegna Film been affected­­ by the pandemic but thanks Commission for organizing the “Italian to the adaptation ability of the Italian studios Animation Days” in Cagliari and the digital and professionals and the support of the version of the master “Cartoon Digital”, two government – the Film and Audiovisual fund strategic events for the NAS project in Sardinia has been increased from 400 million euros to and the growth of animation industry in Italy. 640 million euros and tax-credit rose to 40% – animation productions have moved forward. INDEX OFFICIALS PROGRAMME PROFILES PARTICIPANTS PRACTICAL PARTNERS WELCOME WORDS ANIMATION IN SARDINIA ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Annick Maes General Director of Cartoon his year is not like any other, and we nature at heart, and they know how to treat a hope it won’t repeat. Over the past guest. You will feel that wonderful and bright months, we have learned to adapt atmosphere even online! and to be creative which results in Tevents held online, and networking done over In Sardinia, “green” is not a vain word. They video calls. have embraced the green movement since many years now. Starting with their island, they It’s not ideal, it’s not what we would have treat their nature with care and love, to make a preferred, but it’s what we have. Despite the true sustainable lifestyle in place. Tourism has screen and the distance, online events are real since greatly benefited from this approach. and they do a lot of good: connecting people, As it’s now time to embrace sustainability in allowing them to continue working or training, film and animation making, Sardinia again and keeping them safe, and on the bright side proves as a pioneer with the clever hand of life.