The Hop, Skip & a Jump – Third Edition
International Animation Development in Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Film & Television Fund
The Jerusalem Film & Television Fund of the Jerusalem Development Authority sets out to promote two core values in the field of Israeli animation: first, to encourage independent and professional creation, and second, to promote the animation industry and its members. The Fund is investing an unprecedented budget in the Israeli animation industry with the belief that there is a clear economic horizon for its productions. The Fund sets out to establish Jerusalem as a center of the animation industry through several stages: setting up animation studios throughout the city, supporting Israeli animation productions and bringing esteemed productions from abroad to carry out work in Jerusalem. The Fund collaborates with schools, institutes and animation artists in Jerusalem to train new artists and prepare graduates for work in the industry. Those activities has proven that the success of Israeli artists in leading animation companies abroad- in the fields of art, content and technology- may also be implemented in Israel.
Accordingly, The Jerusalem Film & Television Fund is proud to progress to the next level and introduce a unique course for developing and producing original Israeli animation content in collaboration with international animation houses. The main goal of this course is to create close working relationships and business partnerships with these companies. The vision is to create original Israeli content for foreign animation houses and to produce some of these developments in Jerusalem, not only as service providers, but as partners in creation and copyrights.
The participants in the course will be professionally accompanied by the finest artists from Israel and abroad, and will benefit personal acquaintance with decision makers in world-leading animation companies represented by our great colleagues and supporters; Jenny Marchick - SVP Creative, Sony Pictures Animation, Arturo Hernandez - Development Director, Sony Pictures Animation, Elly Kramer - Children's Media Executive, Former VP at Nickelodeon and Steven Wendland - VP animation & creative head animation, Technicolor.
The Fund attributes great importance to the cooperation with the animators, scriptwriters and producers unions as essential to high production quality. In addition, the Fund sees the Jerusalem Cinematheque as a home for the 'Hop, Skip & a Jump' activities.
The event will take place in the framework of the Jerusalem Film Festival and is open to the general public.
Pitching of the selected projects
Free entrance
For more info: www.jerusalemfilmfund.com
In addition The Hop, Skip & a Jump will hold the
AniNation’s Professional Conference
Master classes designed especially for animators and film makers
* The workshops will be held in English
Thursday 02.08 | Mishkenot Sha’ananim | 10:00 – 14:00 | Limited seating
