Ibermedia Next, a groundbreaking fund devoted to advancing the usage of new applied sciences in animation and digital content material from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Latin America, is launching its second spherical of funding.
The announcement was made on the Annecy Animation Festival on the ultimate day of its MIFA market at at a presentation attended by representatives of two of the challenge’s drivers: Jara Ayucar, director of selling coverage at Spain’s ICAA movie company, a part of its Ministry of Tradition; and Jose Luis Farias, government producer of the Quirinos Awards, representing La Liga de la Animación Iberoamericana, shaped by the Quirinos, Mexico’s Pixelatl Pageant and Ventana Sur’s Animation! discussion board.
Ibermedia Subsequent 2 follows the success of the preliminary funding spherical which noticed 14 modern tasks acquire essential help, permitting creators to push the boundaries of animation and VR expertise.
This new funding spherical presents grants of as much as €150,000 ($163,500), plus mentorship and customized consultancy and promotion for grant profitable works. Candidates for funding have to be based mostly in Spain, Portugal and Italy co-developing tasks with corporations or creators within the Ibero-American area of Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
The decision for functions runs June 14 to July 29. Initiatives have to be animation or live-action, if the latter consists of at the least 75% of animation.
Whole funding for this spherical is €3 million ($3.3 million). Successful tasks have to be at the least 5 minutes in working time, and use for his or her improvement new technological and/or open code instruments. Works could also be conventional audiovisual content material, or Digital (VR), Prolonged (XR) or Augmented Actuality (AR).
“We’re launching a second Ibermedia Subsequent name because of the success of the primary one. Not solely greater than 100 tasks of the best high quality have been introduced, however we now have additionally discovered the important thing to answer a necessity that the animation sector urgently demanded,” mentioned Ignasi Camós, ICAA director basic.
“This initiative not solely promotes the co-development of tasks between Ibero-American international locations, but additionally highlights the expertise of pros who’re dedicated to investing in the usage of new applied sciences to enhance their audiovisual merchandise. We’re certain that that is the fitting path, at all times near the sector and with accomplices comparable to La Liga de la Animación Iberoamericana.”
Notable tasks receiving first-round funding included “Urke,” a collaboration between Spain’s Bígaro Movies, Aupa Studio, and Mexico’s Sísmica Studio. This enterprise aimed to bridge conventional 2D workflows with VR, utilizing AI and programmatic improvements to scale back technical and inventive hurdles.
Asdrubal Rivera, CCO and producer at Sísmica Studios, emphasised the numerous impression of Ibermedia Subsequent’s help, “Ibermedia Subsequent’s backing has enabled us to innovate at a scale that will not have been doable had we been doing it alone.” he informed Selection.
Amongst different recipients of Ibermedia Subsequent funding have been trade luminaries like Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, who co-produced the VR challenge “El Origen de la Experiencia” by their Mexico-based label La Corriente del Golfo. Spain’s Isabel Coixet directed “Sophia (Sofía),” starring Milena Smit, whereas Chile’s Bernardita Ojeda produced two titles, highlighting this system’s attain and affect.
If 12 months one is something to go by, eligible tasks will doubtless embody prototypes, teasers, pilots, quick movies, and videoclips.
A part of Ibermedia, Ibero-America’s most necessary devoted pan-regional co-development, co-production and co-distribution fund, Ibermedia Subsequent types a part of the Spain Audiovisual Hub of Europe plan, in flip a part of Europe’s Recuperation, Transformation and Resilience program.
