The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) confirmed support for eight animation projects in its recent subsidy round. The list might not be endless, the projects are promising with several new titles from production outfit Lunanime, known for their work on A Cat in Paris, and a big-budget sequel to Sammy’s Adventures by nWave.
Kris Mergan and Geert Vandenbroele, who created the creative animated short Good News, are to receive funding to start producing their next animated short Diamond. Production outfit Lunanime can also start on two of its projects: Bram Mondy’s Rapsodie en rose and Rémi Vandenitte’s Betty Blues. Finally, Ben Stassen of nWave (Fly Me to the Moon) directs and produces the sequel to his animated b.o. hit Sammy’s Adventures: the Secret Passage, titled Sammy’s Adventures: Flight From Paradise.
Development funding was granted to four animation studios. First off is a new project by Lunanime (A Cat in Paris) and director Anton Setola, The Cockroach and the Sea. Production studio S.O.I.L is working on both Kris Van Alphen and Paul Driesen’s Disgusting Sounds People Make and Ivo Provoost and Simona Denicolai’s Hello, Are We In The Show? Finally, post-production studio Grid is debuting as a producer under the Grid Film banner with the animated short Sch_duw by Lieven Vanhove.