Young Horizons Industry 2024. What we know so far

The three-day international co-production forum for films and series for young audiences will take place between 30 September – 2 October 2024 at the Kinoteka Cinema in Warsaw.

Participants who cannot join us onsite will have a chance to take part online. The programme includes keynotes, pitching presentations, one-to-one meetings, script consultations, side programmes Producers LINK and Young Talents, and Young Horizons Festival screenings.

Take the first sneak peek at the programme

Curated by Viola Gabrielli, this year’s Forum programme will explore the topic “PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES: How technological innovations are reshaping the creative process and working models.”

We are happy to work with AC Coopens, a founder of THE CATALYSTS, a boutique agency boosting the development of innovative and creative players in digital technology and film, immersive media, music, design and the arts, and a moderator and speaker at events such as EFM or Marché du Cannes. At Young Horizons Industry AC will moderate the conference sessions.

A full conference programme with speakers names and bios will be available closer to the date of the event.

Programme schedule

First guests confirmed

Simon Crowe (SC FILMS INTERNATIONAL), Lucrecia Magnanini (Global Screen), Maite Woköck (Telescope Animation), Luna Sirvin (DANDELOOO), Petra Schleuning (nordmedia Film- u. Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH), Susanne Freese (Look at that Media Licensing), Maja Braun (BNNVARA), Julia Weber (Epsilon Film), Spyros Damianakis (NEO FILMS) are among the professionals you can meet in Warsaw.

We will be adding more names of guests, panellists and partners regularly on Guests page. Click on each Guest photo to read more.

Guests

Projects selected for pitching sections

21 projects have been selected this year and will be presented on stage on 1 October in our main venue Kinoteka. The pitching teams behind the projects will be looking in Warsaw potential co-producers, distributors, sales agents, streamers, broadcasters.

Official selection

Producers LINK participants announced

Last week we announced the list of emerging producers who will take part in the fourth edition of Producers LINK.

Producers LINK edition 2024

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.