| www.euronews.com Which European animation movie will get into cinemas tomorrow? 2012's Cartoon Movie, gathering over 700 participants from 35 countries in the French city of Lyon, presented 55 European animation film projects in a bid to raise finance for films either in concept, development, production or already completed. How does Cartoon Movie work? In the morning participants get to see trailers of the movie projects presented here. Film producers, buyers, distributors and sales agents then go to one of the presentation studios for more information about the project that interests them. The key questions are: What's the story? How much money do you need? Is it a family movie or for teenagers? Are the DVD rights for sale? After the business cards are exchanged everyone hopes for the beginning of a fruitful co-production. One of the projects, "The Boy with the Clock" is the story of Little Jack who was born on the coldest day on earth with a frozen heart. A doctor performs a Cuckoo Clock transplant to save his life The film project in production is based on a book by French musician and writer Mathieu Malzieu. "I wrote the music as if the book needed a film soundtrack. I was already dreaming about it being made into a movie, even thought I was far from sure one would ever be made. But luckily I bumped into Luc besson and his wife Virginie who wanted to produce it," he says. What has the audience feedback been like for the movie presentation? "We've had a lot of very ... |
