Nordic Animation Pitch, the second joint Nordic pitching event for short animations, will take place in Helsinki at Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo from 30th of October till 1st of November.
The Nordic Animation Pitch event brings Nordic animation creators, producers, financiers and distributors together and at the same time strengthens cooperation between the Nordic countries. The event, for its part, supports the implementation and distribution of high-level animation art and enables creators to develop animation projects under the guidance of the industry’s best. This year’s event has also been extended to the Baltic countries.
This year’s event received a lot of project applications, from which the selection committee chose 8 projects for the actual event – two from Finland, two from Sweden, two from Denmark, one from Estonia and one from Latvia.
In Between, Marie-Louise Hojer Jensen, Denmark
The mentors of the event are longtime animation industry professionals Nancy Denney-Phelps and Nik Phelps. The mentors coach the participants during the fall in two remote meetings and on October 30 and 31. In Helsinki at Korjaamo. The event culminates on Friday, November 1. to a pitching which is open to everyone. Participants will pitch their projects to the jury and the public. The winner is chosen by an authoritative jury consisting of Kedri Oengo (Nukufilms, Estonia), Sari Volanen (YLE, Finland) and Rune Spaans (Norway).
Check out all the participants and projects from the event’s webpage.
During the event, there will be also interesting masterclasses and short animation screenings. Wednesday 30.10. Swedish Talents is a screening of award-winning and freshest Swedish short animations. Thursday 31.10. a leading Finnish 3D animation studio Anima Vitae’s CEO Antti Haikala talks about the studio’s successful carreer and their latest international co-production feature film, Niko Beyond the Northern Lights.
The Schedule
Wednesday 30.10
16-17 Jonas Odell -masterclass, Kino – CANCELLED!
18-19 Swedish Talents -screening Kino
Thursday 31.10
16-17 Anima Vitae -masterclass, Kino
18-19 Turku Animated Film Festival Awarded films 2024, Kino
Friday 1.11
13-17 Pithing (Kino)
17-18 Awards (Kino)
Hahmosuunnittelu, Foolish Fish Fable, Sun YiYang, Estonia/China
The Nordic Pitching event has been sponsored by Svenska Kulturfonden, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point, The Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation, Konstsamfundet and City of Helsinki
The event is organized in collaboraion with Nordic Animation, SAAVA and Turku Animated Film Festival.
