In our new episode Argentina’s Silvina Cornillon, who is the coordinator of animation pitches at the Latin American film market Ventana Sur, talks about the importance of creating co-production links between Latin American producers and other parts of the world. Currently, some of the Latin American feature film and tv projects that are pitched at Ventana Sur are subsequently pitched at Annecy’s MIFA market, giving Latin American producers access to new international markets and allowing them to develop strategic partnerships.

Amit Gicelter, who runs the Israeli animation studio The Hive, says that one of his country’s strengths is developing animation content. The country has a strong tech sector, and that filters to its animation industry as well, with Israeli studios developing a lot of projects utilizing 3d, mixed media, and vr/ar approaches. The country’s studios are also working to not just be known as an outsourcing country, but to develop original “IP as the front-end for our production services,” says Gicelter.

Janice Lim of the government agency Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation points out one of Malaysia’s key strengths is that its animation producers “understand both the Western and the Eastern culture, and so the work that comes out of Malaysia and the work that we can do for the various partners across the region is that we understand what is needed for both the Eastern kind of animation and the Western kind of animation.”

Jose Luis Farias, the founder director of the Spanish animation market event 3D Wire, says that Spain’s animation field is very healthy right now, but a key challenge is keeping its talent in Spain. “We are accustomed to export a lot of talent to USA and other countries,” says Farias, “and we are trying to bring them back to Spain with good projects.”

For more global perspectives, check out the rest of the series:

Episode 1: Mexico, South Korea, Greece

Episode 2: Brazil, South Africa, Poland

Episode 3: Latvia, Ecuador, Finland, Russia

Episode 4: Chile, Norway, Philippines

Animation Around the World was produced by Cartoon Brew Editor-in-Chief Amid Amidi. The series DP and editor was Damné Jesús Pérez Irigoyen. The series was filmed at the Annecy MIFA Market in June 2018.