{"id":19425,"date":"2020-10-16T09:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-first-digital-edition\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:26:37","slug":"cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Forum Wraps Up First Digital Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 31st Cartoon Forum, which was held exclusively online due to the coronavirus pandemic, 80 new animated series from all over Europe took another step towards their completion.<\/p>\n<p>The co-production event for European animation series racked up more than 11,604 views and 850 participants, 265 of whom were buyers. The online format made it possible for the event to go global and promote European animation in 43 countries, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, South Korea, China and India, among others.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Cartoon Forum was held virtually September 14 to 17, with the organization keeping the pre-recorded pitches available through October 15.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon Forum\u2019s lineup offered a comprehensive overview of European animation. France led the lineup with 31 projects, followed by Ireland (8), Denmark (6) and Spain (6), while Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy and the U.K. participated with three projects each. With an average cost of 4.1 million euros per series, the 80 projects amounted to a total budget of 327 million euros and 445 hours of new content.<\/p>\n<p>Animation series aimed at children aged 6 to 11 continued to lead the Forum\u2019s lineup with 31 projects (39 percent), followed by series for preschoolers (28 percent). The number of projects aimed at family audiences (10 percent), young adults (8 percent) and teenagers (3 percent) remained stable.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the number of views of each presentation on the digital platform between September 15 and October 15, the 12-project list features <em>Goat Girl<\/em>, a quirky comedy starring a 13-year-old girl raised by mountain goats (Daily Madness Productions, Ireland); the adventure comedy <em>Monster in My Pocket<\/em> (Cyber Group Studios, France), the high-concept miniseries <em>The Upside Down River<\/em> (Dandelooo, France) and the uplifting <em>Gemma &amp; the Defenders<\/em> (Xilam Animation, France). Among the most-viewed projects are also <em>Tiny Island<\/em> (TeamTO, France), <em>Hanna &amp; Nana<\/em> (JAM Media, Ireland), <em>Hey Fuzzy Yellow<\/em> (Toon2Tango, Germany) and <em>Chaos Castle<\/em> (Oddbod Creations, United Kingdom), all four of which are aimed at preschoolers. France\u2019s <em>Alex Player<\/em>, a series set in the world of esports, produced by Bee Prod, <em>Wonder Wa\u00ef<\/em> (Ellipsanime Productions), <em>PriZOOners<\/em> (Tchack) and <em>Rowbot <\/em>aka <em>Atla5<\/em> (Dwarf entertainment) also made it into the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>The 32nd Cartoon Forum will take place in Toulouse from September 20 to 23 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 31st Cartoon Forum, which was held exclusively online due to the coronavirus pandemic, 80 new animated series from all over Europe took another step towards their completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":19426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5536],"class_list":["post-19425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-cartoon-forum","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cartoon Forum Wraps Up First Digital Edition - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cartoon Forum Wraps Up First Digital Edition - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the 31st Cartoon Forum, which was held exclusively online due to the coronavirus pandemic, 80 new animated series from all over Europe took another step towards their completion.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-16T13:19:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-16T15:26:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/cartoon-forum-0620.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/\",\"name\":\"Cartoon Forum Wraps Up First Digital Edition - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-16T13:19:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-16T15:26:37+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/cartoon-forum-wraps-up-first-digital-edition\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cartoon Forum Wraps Up First Digital Edition\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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