Cartoon Forum 2020 in France, cancels events in person, cause covid-19

The organizers of the Cartoon Forum 2020, scheduled for September 14-17, have announced the decision to cancel in-person event schedules due to the coronavirus rebound in Europe and France in August. More than 6.000 new cases were reported in the country last Thursday (from several hundred per day in May and June), encouraging the government to declare the Haute-Garonne region a "red zone".

Director Annick Maes also explained in an email to attendees that many broadcasters had canceled their plans to attend the Toulouse event on the intervening days, while several European countries blocked travel to France, making participation difficult or impossible. of the producers of these territories. Cartoon forum. Organizers saw over 500 cancellations in five days, with numerous requests to participate in online project submissions.

The rapidly reorganized online-only version of this year's “Business First” forum has the following changes:

1. Registered pitches: Since the presentations will no longer take place on site and can no longer be recorded from Toulouse, producers are asked to record them or create a presentation video.

2. Digital platform: From 15 September, the pitches will go live on the digital platform every half day, following the agenda already established. Online attendees will receive a personal login for access and videos will be available until October 15.

3. Mobile app for projects: As announced last Friday, the mobile app shows all information about the projects. The project trailer and evaluation form have also been integrated, which online participants undertake to fill out as soon as they watch a presentation. The app will be ready for download next week. Your personal login and password information will be sent to attendees at the same time.

4. Electronic catalog, "Who Is Coming" and digital agenda: Next week Cartoon Forum will send the link to download the electronic catalog where, like every year, you will find the contact information of all participants.

• The “Who Is Coming” section of the website continues to be updated very regularly.
• The agenda will not be printed, but will be available on cartoon-media.eu/cartoon-fourm as a downloadable PDF.

5. Registration: For online participation, we offer the price of 150 € (excluding VAT). Register via the “My Cartoon” tab on the website using the code DIG327.

Maes and the team expressed their disappointment at the turn of events. “Please know how sad we are not being able to organize this Cartoon Forum and not being able to welcome you for this great meeting of European animation, as we have been doing every year for 30 years,” he wrote.