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CEE Animation Workshop 2025

Category

TRAINING

Deadline | Event Dates (period)

10/03/2025 - 17/10/2025

City

Online & Onsite

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Website

https://ceeanimation.eu/

Edition

Final submission deadline

2024-11-08

Submission/Registration Fee

Yes

Description

CEE Animation Workshop is a year-long training programme for developing projects and enhancing the skills of producers and their creative teams in the field of animation. It is open for international animation professionals, with a focus on producers and projects from countries with low production capacity.

The CEE Animation Workshop is tailor-made to suit the needs of producers and their creative teams with animated projects of any format (shorts, TV, feature-length, hybrid, XR) in development and is also open to a limited number of career-oriented participants, joining the workshop without a project and seeking to build a long-term strategy for their company. Renowned producers and animation script consultants lead the program in the roles of group leaders, who closely follow and mentor projects for the duration of the program.

2025 Call for Entries

The workshop is intended for teams with a project in development (producer and a scriptwriter with an animated project of any format in development: short film, feature-length film, TV series, TV special, documentary of fiction, hybrid projects of XR projects) and for producers without a project working in the field of animation.

The 2025 edition of the CEE Animation Workshop will consist of 4 one week modules; 2 modules will be held online and 2 modules will be on-site.

10 – 16 March 2025, Slovenia / Italy
26 May – 1 June 2025, ONLINE
August 2025 – TBA, Poland
13 – 17 October 2025, ONLINE

Group Leaders: Reka Temple (Cinemoon Entertainment, Producer / Hungary), Annemie Degryse (Lumiere Group / Beast Studio, Producer / Belgium), Phil Parker (Script consultant, UK), Rita Domonyi (Script consultant, Hungary)

Eligibility and rules:
TEAMS WITH A PROJECT IN DEVELOPMENT
Intended for a producer and a scriptwriter with an animated project of any format in development: short film, feature-length film, TV series, TV special, documentary or fiction, hybrid projects (must contain at least 50% animation), or XR projects (narrative and using animation). In special cases, an additional creative team member such as director (if not also scriptwriter), production designer or art director can access part of the program.

PRODUCERS WITHOUT A PROJECT
Intended for career-oriented producers or film professionals who want to develop a long-term strategy for their company or business with a focus on animation.

Additional requirements and explanations:
All participants must have citizenship of or permanent residency in one of the member states participating in the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. Special consideration will be given to the participants from LCC countries** and the participants from non-LCC countries should express a demonstrable connection or interest for co-operation with LCC countries. All participants are required to attend all the Workshop modules in 2025.

**The Creative Europe MEDIA programme Low Capacity Countries are:
Group A: Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Poland
Group B: Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Cyprus, Malta, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, and Ukraine.

Participation fee
For two (optionally three) participants with a project in development: 3,500.00 EUR
+ Conference fee of 300.00 EUR for each onsite module per team member
For one participant without a project: 2,500.00 EUR
+ Conference fee of 300.00 EUR for each onsite module
CEE Animation Workshop also offers a limited number of scholarships. Scholarships are awarded with preference to participants coming from low production capacity countries Group B.

Scholarships:
You may submit a request for a scholarship together with your application, with an explanation and a motivation letter specifying your reasons. If awarded, the CEE Animation Scholarship is granted as a partial reduction of the fee, not as a complete exemption of payment.