The 2023 edition of Cartoon Forum will take place in Toulouse from September 18 to 21, 2023. A total of 37 French series projects will be presented at the event, making France once again the leading country in terms of production.
Projects targeting six- to nine-year-olds are in the majority (14 projects out of 37), but series aimed at teenagers or adults are also well represented, with nine projects in all. International co-productions are still rare at this stage (only five), and are produced with Belgian, Danish, Bulgarian and British partners.
Many of the projects are adaptations of French or foreign literary works (nine in all), but there are also two series that are serialized variants of successful films: Pil, le long-métrage de Julien Fournet's feature film, which has sold over 1.6 million tickets outside France, has been adapted into a series: Pil's Adventures. The same is true of Britt Raes's multi-award-winning short Luce and the Rock, which has now been adapted into a series entitled Luce and the Lovely Land.
It's also worth noting that several projects feature directors who have already made a name for themselves with their previous work. Cédric Frémeaux, director of the 50/50 Heroes series, will be presenting his new series Filip & Fairy and Agnès Patron, winner of the César for Best Animated Short in 2021 with And then the Bear, is co-directing a series entitled Grandpa & Grandma Made the Revolution. Arnaud Demuynck, director of numerous short films and more recently of the feature Yuku and the Flower of the Himalayas, now has a series project called The Princess and the Nightingale, which he is co-directing and producing.
All the French projects presented at Cartoon Forum 2023
Pre-school
- Fishie, director: Dimitar Dimitrov, production co.: Zographic Films (Bulgaria) – Sparre Productions (Denmark) – Godo Films (France)
- Leaves and Roots, director: Agathe Capin, production co.: Somewhere Animation (France)
Upper pre-school
- Gisele and her Little Monsters, director: Bernard Ling, production co.: Blue Spirit (France)
- Hold On Gaston !, director: Aurélie Raphaël, production co.: dandelooo (France)
- Luce in the Lovely Land, director: Britt Raes, production co.: Thuristar (Belgium) – La Cabane Productions (France)
- Mole & Fieldmouse, production co.: Parmi Les Lucioles Films (France)
- What’s up Eesha ?, director: Loïc Espuche, production co.: TeamTO (France)
Children (5 - 7)
- Annie Melting Heart Cake, director: Christophe Gautry, production co.: Sacrebleu Productions (France)
- Filip & Fairy, director: Cédric Frémeaux, production co.: Normaal Animation (FESTIVAAL DISTRIBUTION) (France)
- Mi Bi Pi & the Dinos, directors: Idriss Benseghir, Cédric Lachenaud, & Corentin Lecourt, production co.: Mr Loyal (France)
- The Princess and the Nightingale, directors: Pascale Hecquet & Arnaud Demuynck, production co.: La Boîte... Productions (Belgium) – Les Films du Nord (France)
Children (6 – 9)
- 20 Dance Street, director: Romy Yao, production co.: Cottonwood Media (France)
- Annette, Apprentice Witch, production co.: GO-N Productions (France)
- Aquila, production co.: Zodiak Kids & Family France (France) – Tiger Aspects Kids & Family (United Kingdom)
- Ari, Arbosia’s Keeper, production co.: Mondo TV France (France)
- Boule & Bill, production co.: Elliott Studio (France)
- Burr and Chestnut, directors: Caroline Vic & Gaëlle Vivier, production co.: Andarta Pictures (France)
- Camp Farmcreek, production co.: Millimages (France)
- Dungeons & Kittens, director: Jérémy Guiter, production co.: Watch Next Media (France)
- Froggie, directors: Christophe Pinto & Mathieu Gouriou, production co.: Monello Productions (France)
- Heroic Football, director: Antoine Charreyron, production co.: Superprod (France)
- Kiki & Ailen, r director: Céline Gobinet, production co.: Folivari (France)
- Komodo No Chill, directors: Emmanuel Klotz & Louis Musso, production co.: Ellipse animation (France)
- My Baby Crocodile, directors: Margot Reumont & Gaëtan Dorémus, production co.: Take Five (Belgium) - Sacrebleu Productions (France)
- Star Raider, director: Morade Rahni, production co.: Les Armateurs (France)
Children 6 – 11
- Erica & Trevor vs Spooky Monsters, production co.: Cyber Group Studios (France)
Family
- Pil’s Adventures, director: Benjamin Lagard, production co.: TAT productions (France)
- The Green Land, director: Aude Ha Leplège, production co.: Novanima Productions (France)
Young Adults / Adults
- Apocalypse Mojito, director: Julien Seze, production co.: Passion Paris (France)
- BAD’s Agents, production co.: Darjeeling (France)
- Grandpa & Grandma Made the Revolution, directors: Sophie Nivelle-Cardinale & Agnès Patron, production co.: Les Films du Tambour de Soie (France) – WeJustKids (France)
- Iren the Siren, director: Léahn Vivier-Chapas, production co.: Silex Films (France)
- Molly’s Blues, director: Lucie La Chimia, production co.: Perpetual Soup (France)
- School Monitors, directors: Marie-Pierre Hauwelle & Gildas Rigo, production co.: Xbo Films (France)
- Starpets, director: Stéphane Berla, production co.: Ubisoft Film & Television(France)
- The Epic Time Leap, production co.: Périple (France) – La Chouette Compagnie (France)
- The Forgotten Women of the Père Lachaise, director: Alix Bizet, production co.: Have a Nice Day Films (France)
