Almost 100 projects from all over Europe competed to participate in the 4th year of the Visegrad Animation Forum (May 3-5, Třeboň).  12 short films and 12 TV series in development were selected for the contest where the Hungary clearly dominated on the winners’ box.

Pitching competition

The award for the best animated short film in development went to a French-Hungarian co-production „CARPEL“ by Tibor Banoczki and Sarolta Szabo.

The Jury’s Special mention was received by the Romanian director, Paul Muresan, for his short film „SOMEWHERE“.

The Main Prize in the TV Series category was received at the festive ceremony by the Hungarian-Croatian delegation headed by the Directors, Flora Anna Buda and Balazs Turai, for their project
“THE PIRACY OF PRINCESS PRICELESS“.

Special mention amongst TV Series was awarded to “BORKA AND THE MAGIC DRESS“ by Hungarian directors Beata Gurmai and Balint Benkovits.

Side programme

This year’s programme was opened by a meeting with a Korean delegation including representatives from the KOCCA (Korea Creative Content Agency) and Korean production companies. Among the other events that took place at VAF this year was the first meeting of the national film fund representatives of Central and Eastern European countries. Another highlight of the programme was a debate with top professionals in the field of children’s film distribution and the presentations by their authors of four successful animated projects already in production.

The Visegrad Animation Forum also announced the creation of VAF New Talents 2016, its purpose is to promote the most talented young and debuting animation filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe and bring them together with experienced foreign producers. VAF also introduced the RedBricks project which aims to promote and facilitate the generation of coproduction connections between producers in Central and Eastern Europe.

Please find the full press release with more detailed information here.