CINANIMA
applied to the MEDIA Creative Europe programme for NETWORKS of European Film
Festivals and was successfully accepted, becoming the Festival Coordinator of
FAN – Festivals Animation Network.
The main objectives of this network are the creation of a collaborative model between
the partner festivals, which aims to create and diversify new audiences, thus
creating an exchange of good practices and experiences between its members and
dynamically contributing to the dissemination of European animation cinema
around the world; the promotion of author animation, highlighting young talent;
diversification and expansion of audiences; film production in schools and
other locations; promotion of analysis, study and reflection, as well as the
creation of debates, sharing of ideas and practices between animation film
trainers. Environmental sustainability, inclusion, non-discrimination,
diversity and representativeness are transversal values in the implementation
of the entire project.
With “To watch to expand” as its main motto, this network comprises five European
partner festivals, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, as well as
associated European and non-European festivals:
Coordinator
Festival
·
CINANIMA (Espinho, Portugal)
Partner
Festivals
·
Animafest
Cyprus (Salamiou, Cyprus);
· Animasyros – International Animation
Festival (Syros, Greece).
· IMAGINARIA – International Animated
Film Festival (Conversano, Italy);
· Prime the Animation – New Talent
International Festival (Valencia, Spain);
Associated
Festivals – Europe
· BLON – Animation and Games Festival
(Klaipėda, Lithuania);
· ITFS – International Trickfilm
Festival of Animated Film (Stuttgart, Germany);
· KAFF – Kecskemét Animation Film
Festival (Kecskemét, Hungary);
· VAF – Viborg International Animation
Festival (Viborg, Denmark).
Associated
Festivals – Outside Europe
· MIAF – Melbourne International
Animation Festival (Melbourne, Australia);
· Pixelatl Festival (Guadalajara,
Mexico);
· SIFFCY – Smile International Film
Festival for Children and Youth (New Delhi, India).
With the
aim of bringing European animation cinema to everyone, FAN will also promote
workshops, symposiums, activities within the educational programme, always
based on environmental sustainability and collaborative practices between
festivals.
