Cartoon Springboard Set for Valencia

Valencia is hosting the next edition of Cartoon Springboard, the pitching event for new animation talents to be held from October 26 to 28.

A total of 24 projects, involving 39 young directors graduated from 22 animation schools across Europe within the last five years, will be pitched to a panel of experts and professionals from the sector.

France leads the selection with seven projects by graduates from Gobelins—L’Ecole de l’Image, École de la Cité, ECV Bordeaux, Emile Cohl Atelier and EMCA—École des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation. Italy is second with four projects by alumni from NAS—New Animation in Sardegna, Nemo Academy, Civica scuola di cinema Luchino Visconti and Scuola Romana dei fumetti. Germany, with graduates from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, ifs internationale filmschule köln, and Hochschule Darmstadt—University of Applied Sciences, and Hungary, with former students from Moholy-Naguy University of Art and Design and Budapest’s University of Theatre and Film Arts, participate with three projects each.

Most of the projects are created in 2D animation, except for two in 3D, one in stop motion and three using hybrid animation.

Half of the projects have already secured a producer partner, including Story House (Belgium), TETRABOT (Croatia), Icare Entertainment and Yabunousagi (France), Blaue Pampelmuse and TWENTYTWO Film (Germany), CUB Animation and ULab (Hungary), JAM Media (Ireland), and Foore animation, Flora’s Room and Lumiar (Italy).

Over the past few years, 25 projects were selected for Cartoon Forum and Cartoon Movie following their participation in Cartoon Springboard. The program is supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme, the Generalitat Valenciana, the Institut Valencià de Cultura and the Universitat Politècnica de València.