ACE Producers has selected 17 experienced independent producers for the ACE Animation Special 2021. The intensive workshop is designed to deepen their knowledge of developing and producing long form,feature film and series animation production for an international audience including cinema, broadcast as well as streaming. Producers applied with animated features and series projects in early development. Originally set to take place during Animation Dingle it was postponed to late June 2021 in Dublin due to the current situation. The selected producers will kick off the workshop with an online session in March giving them the opportunity to benefit from the online Animation Dingle programme.
The ACE Animation Special is supported by Screen Skills Ireland, Screen Ireland, Animation Skillnet, BAI (Broadcasting Authority of Ireland) and Animation Ireland in close collaboration with Animation Dingle.
Of this year’s event, ACE director Jacobine van der Vloed said, “We’re thrilled to be joining with our Irish partners once again for the Animation Special. Of course, the fact that we’re not going to be in Dingle in March is disappointing for all involved, but after our experience last year, we’re confident of delivering a dynamic workshop that will offer our producers the key knowledge to make their way in the animation industry.”
SELECTED ACE ANIMATION SPECIAL PRODUCERS:
Simonetta Amenta (ACE Italy), Eurofilm
Emilie Blézat (ACE France), SCIAPODE
Maria Blicharska (ACE Poland/France), Donten et Lacroix/Blick Productions
Fiona Copland (New Zealand), Field Theory
Valérie Delpierre (Spain), Inicia Films
David Epiney (Switzerland), Alina film
Marion Guth, (Luxembourg), a_BAHN
Chris Hees (United Kingdom), Bridge Way Films
Niamh Herrity (Ireland), Pink Kong
Nicole Kellerhals (Germany), X Filme Creative Pool
Tamsin Lyons (Ireland), Ink and Light
Errol Nayci (Netherlands), Storytellers Animation
Kristy Neville (Canada), Wildling Pictures
Sébastien Onomo (ACE France), Special Touch Studio
Iris Otten (ACE Netherlands), Pupkin Film
Aleksandar Protic (Serbia), MIR MEDIA GROUP
Vanessa Robinson (Ireland), Little Moon Animation
Topics covered include story development, visual world building and asset creation, international production workflows in multi-country co-productions, financing strategies, physical line production, the integration of an animation department into an existing (film-) production company as well as an assessment of the demands and expectation of broadcasters.
Among the experts of this year’s edition are Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning Magic Light Pictures producers Martin Pope and Michael Rose (“Zog and the Flying Doctors”), BAFTA-winning producer Claire Jennings (“Coraline”, “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”) and renowned animation producer Simon Quinn (“Isle of Dogs”). The full list will be announced shortly. Last year’s expert line-up included Peter Lord founder of Aardman Studios, Chris Dicker, then head of development at Jam Media, Cartoon Network’s Sarah Fell, Michael Ryan of GFM Films and Jean Baptiste Babin of Backup Media.
Please find more information here:
https://ace-producers.com/animation-special/
For more information please contact:
alwilliams@ace-producers.com
A previous version of this post also included Michael Margulis (Ukraine – Kapi Animationas) as a participant. Unfortunately, he had to withdraw from the workshop.
