CINEKID Junior Co-Production Market 2025

About Cinekid Junior Co-Production Market

The Junior Co-production Market is an integrated three-day co-production market that enables financiers, broadcasters and producers to assess new and innovative children's projects across the film and television sectors.

2025 Call for projects

CINEKID Junior Co-production market accepts feature film and serial productions in development from all over the world.

• Submissions can be feature length film projects or TV/serial/episodic projects, and can either be fiction, documentary, animation, or live action as well as crossover projects for an audience of 3-14 years old.
• Submitted projects need to have at least 10% of the financing in place (excluding own investments), and a confirmed production company in the country of origin.
• A draft of the script must be available upon request.
• For works-in-progress: (rough) material available should not be less than 8 minutes long and there should be a teaser from the film or TV production.

During the Junior Co-production Market 2025, three awards will be handed out:

• The Eurimages Co-production Development Award of €20,000 for the best film project aimed for cinema release. This project must be designed as a European co-production between at least two member states of the Eurimages Fund for reasons other than purely financial.
• The PUBLIKUM Audience Awareness Award (€9,000). All feature films and series selected for the Junior Co-production Market are eligible for this award. The money is paid in the form of services by the consultancy Will & Agency, who hands out the award. Publikum blends anthropology, data, and IT to analyse audience responses during the screenwriting process.
• The Filmmore Post-Production Award of €5,000. This award is designed to stimulate collaboration with the Dutch Visual Effects & Post Production lab Filmmore. Designed for live-action projects, the award winner gets post-production support from the lab.

• Full regulations
• Application form
• Deadline: 29 June 2025

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2020 Selected Projects

Cinekid for Professionals has selected 20 children’s film and television projects-in-development from 19 countries around the world for its Junior Co-production Market (JCM), to be held online 22-23 October 2020 during the Cinekid Festival. 

Full selection list Junior Co-production Market 2020

Film Projects

Dragons Exist
Written and directed by Suzanne Raes
Produced by Docmakers (NL): Ilja Roomans
Production countries: The Netherlands, Germany
Co-production company: Lichtblick Film (DE)

I am Helena
Written and directed by Karla von Bengtson
Produced by Copenhagen Bombay (DK): Lorene Lescanne, Mette Valbjørn Skøtt, Sarita Christensen
Production country: Denmark

Nayaraq, Sara’s Journey
Written by Yanina Romanin, Juan Rodríguez-Briso
Directed by Juan Rodríguez-Briso
Produced by Omnicorp Estudio (AR): Juan Martín Staffa
Production country: Argentina

Rood
Written by Job Tichelman, Camiel Schouwenaar
Directed by Camiel Schouwenaar
Produced by Rinkel Film (NL): Reinier Selen
Production country: The Netherlands

The Animals’ Christmas
Written and directed by Camille Alméras, Caroline Attia, Ceylan Beyoglu, Oleysha Shchukina, Haruna Kishi, Natalia Chernysheva
Produced by Les Valseurs (FR): Damien Megherbi
Production country: France

The Troublemakers
Written by Nildo Essá, Halima Essá
Directed by Nildo Essá
Produced by FX Animation Studios (MZ)
Production countries: Mozambique, Portugal, France
Co-production company: Sardinha em Lata (PT), Mounia Aram Company (FR)

The Whisper of the Sea
Written by Marcela Rincón, Jorge Estrada
Directed by Marcela Rincón
Produced by Fosfenos Media (CO)
Production country: Colombia

Tiger Martindale’s Survival Experts
Written by Ross Knight
Directed by Pavel Gumennikov
Produced by Baltic Pine Films (LV): Sergei Serpuhov
Production country: Latvia

Trembling Giant
Written and directed by Jacek Piotr Bławut
Produced by Aura Films (PL): Anna Blawut Mazurkiewicz, Bartek Glinski
Production countries: Poland, Belgium
Co-production company and co-producer: Bulletproof Cupid (BE) - Katleen Goossens

TV Projects

3Hz
Written by Sophie Jans, Edith Huybreghts, Dirk Nielandt
Directed by Sander Brants
Produced by De Mensen (BE)
Production country: Belgium
Co-production company: Gardner and Domm (BE)

Beastly Crimes
Written by Anna Starobinets
Directed by Yulia Ruditskaya
Produced by Metrafilms Studio (RU): Artem Vasilyev, Anna Pokorska, Karina Kabanova
Production countries: Russia, Canada
Co-production company and co-producer: Lakeside Animation Studios (CA) - Iouri Stepanov

Darling ZhuZha
Written by Anastasiia Lavrenishyna
Directed by Anatoliy Lavrenishyn
Produced by Trident Film (UA): Kateryna Kopylova, Sashko Chubko
Production country: Ukraine

Dinofables
Written and directed by Klára Jůzová
Produced by Krutart (CZ): Martin Jůza
Production countries: Czech Republic, Serbia, Romania
Co-production company and co-producer: To Blink Animation (CS) - Andrijana Sofranić Šućur, Domestic Film (RO) - Irena Isbășescu

Isaura
Directed by Andrew Mcnally
Produced by Lucan Studio (ZA)
Production country: South Africa

Louise Lives Large
Written by Carol Walsh
Directed by Ruth Treacy
Produced by Tailored Films (IE): Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, Eithne Fitzsimons
Production country: Ireland

Lyla and Max’s Garden
Written by An Vrombaut, Trish Cooke, Davey Moore, Nicole Davis
Directed by Zane Whittingham
Produced by Fettle Animation (UK): Kath Shackleton
Production country: United Kingdom

Oink?
Written by Bert Lesaffer, An Vrombaut
Directed by An Vrombaut
Produced by Animal Tank (BE): Brecht Van Elslande
Production country: Belgium

Pirate in the Bathroom
Written and directed by Lars Henning Jung
Produced by Randale Film (DE): Dennis Siebold
Production country: Germany

Stories with Effects
Written by Dafna Vellejo, Aseneth Suarez Ruiz, Max Milfort Blandon, Demetrio Vallejo
Directed by Dafna Vellejo Manzano
Produced by Lapost Studios (CO): Aseneth Suarez Ruiz
Production country: Colombia
Co-production company: Señal Colombia (CO)

The Motorhomes
Written by Mariano Rojo
Directed by Deigo Lucero, Nicolás Couvin
Produced by Malabar producciones SRL (AR): Nicolas Couvin
Production country: Argentina
Co-production company and co-producer: Pakapaka channel (Contenidos Publicos S.E.) (AR)

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