Animated Visions: Story Development Lab

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Project Pitch To Judges: 13 December 2020 (Time TBC)

Venue: *SCAPE

For the first time in our festival’s history, Cartoons Underground is organizing a Story Development Lab, in partnership with *SCAPE. We are calling for YOUR project proposals and story ideas, and are open to any genre (fantasy, horror, drama, you name it!) and any length/format (shorts, series, features, or any other format you can envision!).

This Story Development Lab is aimed at helping participants to develop their animated project ideas into a fully realized pitch with concrete logline, treatment, character biography. The participants will have the opportunity to receive one-to-one feedback from the lab mentors, on how to strengthen their ideas and learn more about producing your next animated hit!

At the end of the lab, participants will get a chance to pitch their projects in front of a panel of judges, who will award the Best Pitch award to the team with the most successful and well-developed Pitch.

LAB MENTORS

Jerrold Chong

Director/animator Jerrold Chong graduated with a BFA in Animation at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His films have screened at numerous international film festivals, including Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Busan International Film Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival in Bristol, Animatricks Animation Festival in Helsinki, Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo and Bucheon International Animation Festival in Korea.

Most recently he co-directed the animated short film, Piece of Meat, which premiered at the 2019 Cannes Director’s Fortnight and was selected at the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival and was selected in competition for Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF).. His films “Automatonomy” and “What Has To Be” has also won the Best Animation Award at the National Youth Film Awards Open Category.

His animated feature project “The Art of Charlie Chan” won at the 2019 Animation du Monde workshop in Philippines, getting an opportunity to present and pitch the project at Annecy Festival’s MIFA pitches in June 2019. He also participated with an independent feature project in the SGIFF Southeast Asian Film Lab in 2016.

Harry and Henry Zhuang

Harry and Henry Zhuang are award-winning animation filmmakers. After having their first stop-motion animation ‘Contained’ travelled to numerous film festival and winning awards, twin brothers Henry & Harry Zhuang continued their journey to explore the boundaries of animation. Their independent short film, “The Tiger Of 142B’ traveled to festivals such as Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) and Animafest Zagreb, and had won ‘Best Film’ in SEAShort Film and ‘Rising Talent’ award in Beijing’s China Independent Animation Film Forum. Their most recent short film ‘Ju Ren’ was selected to be screened in the prestigious Annecy International Animation Festival.

They also founded their own animation studio Weaving Clouds and their clients include DramaBox, Esplanade, Changi Airport Group, MOE, Big3 Media, CraveFx, 360Studio. One of the projects they have worked on for OGILVY & MATHER SINGAPORE had also won Gold Spike Awards at Spike Asia 2013. Most recently, the studio created their own 20-episode animated series, Stickers Together.