Cartoon Movie – im letzten Februar zum 10. Mal in Potsdam-Babelsberg – wird ab dem nächsten Jahr in Lyon stattfinden. Das hat Cartoon heute mitgeteilt und als Grund genannt, dass sich Frankreich in den vergangenen Jahren zum führenden europäischen Markt für Animationsfilme entwickelt hat. Außerdem biete der neue Veranstaltungsort die Gelegenheit, Synergien zwischen der Animationsindustrie und dem Games-Markt zu schaffen, der in Lyon eine blühende Industrie sei.

Die Cartoon-Pressemitteilung im Wortlaut:
Cartoon Movie moves to Lyon

Brussels, 10th September 2008.

The European Association of Animation Film, CARTOON, is pleased to announce that, after 10 years spent at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam (Berlin), Cartoon Movie is moving to the city of Lyon (France) as from 2009.

These last years, France has become the uncontested European leader in the animation film market. This is one of the factors that accounts for the arrival in France of this forum dedicated to European feature-length animation films.

The settling of Cartoon Movie in Lyon will offer the opportunity to strengthen the already solid position of the Rhône-Alpes region in the audiovisual and cinema market, and more specifically in the area of animation film.

Indeed, Cartoon Movie will become the third axis of a triangle, which includes CITIA in Annecy, organiser of the most renowned Festival and international Market of animation film in the world, and La Cartoucherie near Valence, a new centre built around Folimage Studios and the animation film school “La Poudrière”, whose productions and end-of-study films are internationally recognised.

The next edition of Cartoon Movie will take place from 4th to 6th March 2009 at the Congress Centre “Cité Internationale” in Lyon. It will also offer the opportunity to establish a new synergy between the European animation film market and the video games market, which is a thriving industry in Lyon.

Cartoon Movie’s move to Lyon is taking place with the collaboration of the Centre National du Cinéma (CNC), the Rhône-Alpes Region and the Greater Lyon Urban Community.


12. September 2008