Exclusively for VAF: Vassilis Kroustallis, Head Editor, Zippy Frames Post-WWII animated production from Central Eastern European countries has been justly celebrated in festival retrospectives and publications; Czech names such as Jiří Trnka, Karel Zeman and Břetislav Pojar; Hungarians like Marcell Jankovics and Gábor Csupó; and Polish artists Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica and Jerzy Kucia (and many others) are still considered to represent courageously made, pivotal arti...

The sixth year of the international Visegrad Animation Forum for film professionals will take place on 1st – 3rd May. As a tradition, it will be centred on a pitching competition of animated projects now in development in two categories – short films and series / TV specials. This year’s novelty is a pitching competition of upcoming animated feature films. It is organised by the Visegrad Animation Forum in cooperation with the Anifilm Festival and the newly established CEE Anim...

Eleven short films in development will participate in the VAF 2018 Třeboň pitching competition. The winning short film project will receive 2,000 EUR. Thanks to the cooperation with the European Animation Development Lab Animation Sans Frontières (ASF), one selected director or producer will receive a scholarship in amount of EUR 1,500. Tim Leborgne, project leader of ASF will follow the pitches in both categories and choose the winner. The price worth EUR 1,000 will receive the best sh...

The projects have been selected from across Europe, including the Central and East European region – Bosna and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia or Ukraine. All selected projects will take part in the pitching preparation with an experienced professional on their story concept, project development, financial plan, market or festival strategy, possible coproduction workflow separation etc. This will be followed by the pitchi...