Cartoon Forum Kicks Off With New Buyers, Fresh Energy and Unfamiliar Faces
variety.comBen Croll Running Sept. 18 – 21, this year’s fully in-person Cartoon Forum co-production pitch session will build on pre-pandemic attendance numbers, welcoming 290 buyers, among them nearly two dozen first-time participants, while introducing unseen players into the mix.
Alongside the commissioners, producers, and broadcasters that have made up Cartoon Forum’s traditional base, this year’s bustling edition will host a growing delegation of publishers hungry for fecund I.P.
and niche streamers filling in the gaps left by Amazon and Netflix, who will not make the trip to Toulouse in France. “We’re opening up to a new generation,” says Cartoon Media director Annick Maes. “We’ll have [more than] 20 companies that have never attended Cartoon before, which should make for a very interesting event.
How will they pitch? What will they produce? What will they bring [to the mix]?” Among those new to the mix is Ubisoft Film and Television, a subsidiary of the video game powerhouse bringing the original property “Starpets” to Toulouse.
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