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Programme and keynote speakers announced!
The conference programme is here. The speakers include: Maite Woköck and Johannes Hezer from Telescope Animation, Germany; Jiří Mika from PFX, Czechia; Maciej Żemojcin, an AI and virtual production film specialist, Poland; Volha Paulovich from PentoPix, UK; and Christiane Stützle from Morrison & Foerster, Germany. The sessions will be moderated by AC Coopens from THE CATALYSTS.
Join us!
Early bird accreditations are available until 12 August. The event is being held onsite in Warsaw between 30 September and 2 October, but if you cannot travel to Poland, you can join us online.
Read more here. Join the event here.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact magda.wylezalek@nowehoryzonty.pl or zofia.horszczaruk@nowehoryzonty.pl.
“Pushing the Boundaries – How Technological Innovations Are Reshaping the Creative Process, Work, and Business Models” is the topic of this year’s conference programme curated by Viola Gabrielli, Head of Programme at Young Horizons Industry.
Young Horizons Industry will kick off on 30 September with a talk “THE LAST WHALE SINGER – Creating a Platform Harmonic IP & Business Model”, followed by a talk and panel titled “Human-Centric AI in Films and Series”. In this two-part session, we will explore the creative process with AI-driven tools, legal aspects, and ethical integration.
The second day is all about pitching and 1:1 meetings. The list of the 21 in-development projects and works in progress selected for the pitching was announced earlier this year. The guest list is regularly updated and can be found here.
This year, we are changing the set-up a little bit, with one day of pitching. This doesn’t mean there will be nothing to do on the third day, though. On the contrary, together with Cristina Angelucci, media and licensing expert and publisher, Brands Media (BM SRL) from Italy, who is also hosting the Bologna Kids Licensing Fair, we invite you to take part in a round-table discussion “Securing IP’s – Opportunities and Challenges of Book Adaptations”. On the same day, you will also get an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming European production. There will also be a fun activity in MediaLab organised by the Young Horizons IFF. On the last day, you will also have another chance to book a 1:1 meeting and consult your ideas with our experts during the Consultants’ Tables.
The forum will be accompanied by the Think Tank for executives from European broadcasting companies to discuss the situation of Children’s Productions in TV programming and financing (by invitation only).
Consultants’ Tables
Three international experts accepted our invitation and offered their expertise. Our consultants include: Marina Narishkin, expert in the business of entertainment, serial entrepreneur, and IP brand builder, who returns to us as an expert to discuss your marketing strategy and IP building questions; Heiko Martens, experienced script doctor, and mentor for stories for young people aged 6–18, formerly affiliated with Academy for Children’s Media; and Laila Lala from Greenigma, a green consulting agency from Germany.
Registration for Consultants’ Tables will open on 26 August.
Networking
We strive to make networking as easy as possible at Young Horizons Industry. Apart from the free lunches and coffee breaks between the sessions, there will be a welcome reception co-hosted by Regional Film Funds in Poland as well as a Young Horizons Industry party. Producers will be invited to join the networking game, Producers Meet Producers. All the guests are invited to join us at the MediaLab mentioned before. For the first time, you can also take part in a football match. No special skills required!
To give you more space for 1:1 meetings, we are moving them from Kinoteka to the Ibis Styles Hotel. At the 1:1 meeting tables, you can discuss your work in a more formal way or continue the talks initiated during the less formal activities.
You can request a 1:1 meeting on our platform which will open in September.
There is more!
We are not revealing all our cards today. Stay curious for what’s coming up! In the upcoming weeks, we will share the titles of Polish and European productions which we will be part of exclusive presentations. In the first half of August, we will announce the projects selected to the new section: Project Pool.
The projects highlighted in this section will not be presented on stage but each of them will have its own table for 1:1 meetings. You are welcome to book meetings with the producers of those projects and discuss potential partnerships.
OUR PARTNERS
Young Horizons Industry is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme, City of Warsaw, and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within a frame of the Polish Creative Industries Development Center programme “Rozwój Sektorów Kreatywnych”,
and organised in partnerships with Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, ORKA, FIXAFILM, Wroclaw Feature Film Studio, Animond, No Problemo Music, Łódź Film Commission, Silesian Film Fund, Podkarpackie Regional Film Fund, Krakow Film Fund and Malopolska Film Fund of the Small Forms, Polish Producers Alliance (KIPA), Polish Animation Producers Association (SPPA), Crew United, m:brane, CEEA Forum, Animarkt Stop Motion Forum, Animation Production Days, Just Film Industry Days, Coprocity, Children’s Media Foundation.
Media patrons: Cineuropa, Film New Europe, C21Media, Licensing Magazine, Skwigly
Under the patronage of the Polish Screenwrites’ Guild.