European feature animation producers and filmmakers gathered in Potsdam to discuss funding and distribution partnerships and deals. Heikki Jokinen reports on Cartoon's latest coup.
AWN (01.05.2000 - Heikki Jokinen) To make feature animation does not seem to have calmed down. This was proven at the Cartoon Movie event at the historical Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam, Germany. The place was well chosen; the first feature animation of all time, Lotte Reiniger's Die Gesichte des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Ahmed, 1926) was created at Babelsberg.
This annual co-financing forum for European feature animation was held March 23 25, 2000 for the second time. In three days 27 projects in development or production were presented. All 350 participants -- including 93 investors and distributors -- also had the opportunity to see six brand new features on the big screen.
Organized by Cartoon, the animation platform for the European Union, Cartoon Movie follows the format of the well-known Cartoon Forum event. Accepted producers have 40 minutes to convince participants to either invest money, or agree to television screenings or a distribution deal for the proposed movie project. Results vary; sometimes the producer will get his financial need fulfilled 100%, sometimes the most visible reaction is yawning. To present a project at Cartoon Movie does not guarantee that one day it will hit the screens.
Heikki Jokinen reviews the Tampere Festival in Finland,a unique short film festival that makes sure to integrate animation into all of its programs.
AWN (01.04.1999 - Heikki Jokinen) "It's incredible! The Tampere Short Film Festival has a wider program of animation than some of the actual animation festivals," said one of the first time visitors I met at the XXIX Tampere International Short Film Festival in March.
Tampere is a traditional industrial town in Finland, Northern Europe, inhabited by 175,000 people and covered with a lot of snow in March. It's not the most likely place to find an almost 30 year old annual short film festival, which is often referred to as one of the leaders in its field in Europe, and even the world.
The name of the small town 15 kilometers away, Nokia, is without a doubt known much better, though for other reasons. Finland has the highest density of mobile phones in the world, and as a result, one can get the daily festival program on his phone screen as a text message.
Hiroshiman animaatiofestivaalin vieraana ollut Harryhausen, 78, yhdisti 16 elokuvassaan taitavasti elävät näyttelijät ja nukkeanimaation. Hänen esikoiselokuvassaan Syvyyksien hirviö (1953) liskohirviö mustekala tuhoaa San Franciscoa. Se innosti Japanin Toho-studion tekemään 1954 ensimmäisen Godzilla-elokuvansa.
Toisessa Harryhausenin katastrofielokuvien klassikoksi päätyneessä tarinassaan Earth vs. Flying Saucers (1956) avaruuden muukalaiset panevat matalaksi Washingtonin.
AWN (01.02.1998 - Heikki Jokinen) On the 40th anniversary of Estonia's Nukufilm, Heikki Jokinen went for a visit to profile the puppet animation studio and their place in the post-Soviet world.
Estonia is a little big nation of animation. For a country of some two million inhabitants, it has a long record of international animation festival awards and many, well-known and revered animators. The Tallinnfilm studio was established 40 years ago in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, which was at that time part of the Soviet Union.
Estonia is one of the three Baltic republics that regained it's independence after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Tallinnfilm has divided into two separate studios, one specializing in stop-motion puppet film and one that completes traditional, cel animation.
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