This presentation proposes to review the questions posed by the international co-production of animated short films: how and why we choose the projects, the partners, what is the producer’s commitment, what are the issues and obstacles to which we can face, through concrete examples of projects produced with various countries.

Olivier Catherin

Olivier Catherin is an ethnologist by training. He was a board member and employee of the French Animation Film Association (AFCA), where he was responsible for the Resource Centre and created the International Animation Film Day Celebration. In 2008 he created the production company Les Trois Ours. He produced, among more than 40 projects, including Kiki of Montparnasse which won a César for best short animation film. From 2015 to 2018 he was in charge of the animation sector for the Hauts-de-France region (Nord) at Pictanovo. He is one of the co-founders and administrators of the European Animation Awards (Emile Awards). Today he is a freelance producer on international co-production projects, producing for instance Steakhouse (Jury Prize at Annecy), Granny’s Sexual Life (Best short European Films Awards, César for best short animation film) or Electra (best short film at Toronto International Film Festival), consultant for various entities as CITIA, CEE Animation, he was in charge of Annecy 2020’s African focus or a study of the animation eco-system in Nigeria for the French Development Agency. He’s also teaching animation production and film history (National Audiovisual Institute – INA sup, Sciences Po). He has conducted project development and pitching workshops in Georgia for the past 10 years, and also in Ecuador, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Austria.