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I was lucky to participate in this year's Cartoon Forum event, which was held in Toulouse on the 15.-18.9.2015. Picture taken by Brown Bag Films   What is Cartoon Forum? It's a yearly happening where (mostly) European production companies are pitching some of the animation series they are developing or planning to develop. The purpose of these pitches is to attract broadcasting companies and other potential buyers to invest in the series-in-progress by pre-sales, and to get coproduction deals with other companies. Well, that is the main purpose, but many of the visitors of the event were young animators just out of university, as well as young companies which want to see what kind of series are being developed. Representatives of media foundations for various EU countries were also there, watching this year's trends, as well, and of course networking like everybody else. Being there, I took a lot of notes from how the pitches were structured, and listened keenly what pe

Here are some pics and a video of our little get-together on Thursday 10.9.2015. Timo Kivikangas is speaking Timo Kivikangas and Juha Suonpää - discussing what they will say? The apple pie was sweet and there was enough for all Attentive people Outside, it was almost summer. The sun is still with us. What a good idea to have something like this from time to time! Text & images: Carita Forsgren 2015

EARS – Europe-Asia Roundtable Sessions is a platform supporting creative industry collaboration between Europe and Asia. A place for creative professionals from different cultural settings to meet, connect and share ideas. EARS on Helsinki, took place on August 27-30 in YLE Pasila, catered a blend of keynotes, roundtables and networking sessions with topics ranging from virtual reality to Asia’s festival boom. Tailor-made sections are featured for design, music, performing arts, literature, marketing and media. ___________________________________________________________________________ EARS Helsinki 2015 / Part 1 . Stories continued... Day 2 of EARS conference, I started my day with cup of coffee and croissant at Yle Pasila studio and then headed to the morning session 'Spotlight on Performing Art Venues'. Anna CY Chan, Head of Artistic Development of West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong, Stuba Nikula, Cultural Director of City of Helsinki, Austin Wang, Director of Taip

EARS – Europe-Asia Roundtable Sessions is a platform supporting creative industry collaboration between Europe and Asia. A place for creative professionals from different cultural settings to meet, connect and share ideas. EARS on Helsinki, took place on August 27-30 in YLE Pasila, catered a blend of keynotes, roundtables and networking sessions with topics ranging from virtual reality to Asia’s festival boom. Tailor-made sections are featured for design, music, performing arts, literature, marketing and media. Thursday morning, EARS on Helsinki 2015 Reception. Photo by Hemmo Rättyä So happy to receive a beautiful tote bag and a free sauna seat cover  sponsored by Lapuan Kankurit I signed up to this conference as TAMK Media student, because cross cultural topics had always been on the top of my interest list. On top of this, Virtual Reality is featured in one of the sessions and I made this trip a part of my thesis research. The conference was opened by Finland’s Minister of Education