6 MAY - WEDNESDAY HVEZDA hall 09:00 VAF welcoming: croissant & coffe Welcoming and basic orientation about workshops and pitching preparations 09:30 Cartoon Forum What Cartoon Forum is? How Cartoon Forum works? Introduction of Cartoon Forum. 10:15 11:00 From small studio to big production How a good idea becomes a big TV production. Jean-Francois le Corre presents Vivement Lundi! Production. Short Films Pitching workshop 1/3 Individual consultations reflecting the main story concept, storytelling, its translation into the visual style 12:30 Lunch 13:30 14:30 15:30 Animation Short Films in schools New opportunities for the distribution of short films and a TV series? Panel debate: alternative distribution in official school curriculum Short films & Book publishing Book Publishing - a new way of distribution? As children read - present book business exposure and tendencies 16:00 Technical screening tests for the pitching participants 17:00 Visegrad Animation Forum 2015 page: 1
6 MAY - WEDNESDAY HVEZDA workshop hall 11:00 TV Series - pitching workshop 1/3 1:1 MEETINGS WITH TV COUCHES Concept doctoring 13:00 Lunch 14:00 TV Series - pitching workshop 2/3 1:1 MEETINGS WITH TV COUCHES Consultations of the concept, targeting audience, character description, 16:00 Coffee brake 16:30 TV Series - pitching workshop 3/3 1:1 MEETINGS WITH TV COUCHES Consulting the pitching strategy with couches, with the focus on distribution and sales Visegrad Animation Forum 2015 page: 2
6 MAY - WEDNESDAY The Castle Schwarzenberg hall 16:00 VISEGRAD ANIMATION RALLYE Screening of short films from the VAF promo and distribution project with introductions. Premiere of the DVD! 17:30 Round table: minority coproductions in East Europe Countries Who supports animation? Trip across the region seeking support funds and partners Creative Europe, national funds, MEDIA and third parties. Visegrad Animation Forum 2015 page: 3
7 MAY - WEDNESDAY HVEZDA hall 09:00 The Best of Cartoon Forum Case studies: Successful projects from Cartoon Forum 09:30 PITCHING OF TV SERIES PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT 1/2 competition for the best TV series project in development 10:30 coffe break 11:00 PITCHING OF TV SERIES PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT 2/2 competition for the best TV series project in development 12:30 Case studies: How do we choose market and look for more partners? 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Case studies:three Stones Media & CBeebies (BBC) 14:30 Trip across the region to see where and in which numbers appear animated series 14:45 Round table Why? What has recently worked? Why? Broadcaster's plan's and visions. Round table with key figures from PSBs in the region. Questions and answers 16:00 coffe break 16:30 Finding the right buyer and making him happy 16:45 PITCHING OF TV SERIES PROJECTS IN PRODUCTION 18:30 Co-producing with the Western world Working for and with a broadcaster in UK Who shows animation? What do the broadcasters in seek? What works? Pitching of projects ready for pre buy and minority coproduction. 1:1 meeting TV series projects in development Face to face meeting of contestants and TV professionals Visegrad Animation Forum 2015 page: 4
7 MAY - WEDNESDAY HVEZDA workshop hall 09:00 Short films case studies Presentation of development way of past projects Limbo Limbo travel, The Adviser of king Hydrops 09:30 Short Films Pitching workshop 2/3 Consultation of production developments plan, fundraising strategies, international coproduction possibilities, festival markets 12:30 Lunch 16:00 Short Films pitching workshop 3/3 Rehearsels of pitching 18:30 Visegrad Animation Forum 2015 page: 5
8 MAY - FRIDAY HVEZDA hall 09:00 FOLIMAGE presentation FOLIMAGE - Residency program opened for all creative filmmakers. Presentation of the studio with its programs of residency. 09:30 Talking Animals 10:00 The fun for animation unites everybody: Interestingly studio from Berlin PITCHING of SHORT FILMS PROJECTS 12:30 Short Film Lunch feedbacak meeting for participants 13:00 Why is production for children so important? Production for children is base of each cinematograpfy. Will we support children movies or we will resign for our cinematography in future? The debate on how to make movies for kids. Visegrad Animation Forum 2015 page: 6
Time 8 MAY - FRIDAY THEATRE Program modul 15:00 BALTIC FOCUS 15:30 BALTIC FOCUS 16:00 17:30 ART SHOT independent creative studio from Lithuania Meet Agné Adoméne - the young professional from Lithuanian studio ART SHOT. ATOM ART independent animation studio from Latvia Director Edmund Janson presents independent studio from Riga. Short films and digital distribution in digital age? ARTE Creative and Daazo.com Debate on new online platforms for animation. Experience with digital distribution Winners and CLOSING CEREMONY OF VAF 2015 Visegrad Animation Forum 2015 page: 7