After its first successful edition in 2018, Shoot the Book Anim': Meet the Publishers is back at the Mifa for a second consecutive year, in partnership with the SCELF, the Institut français and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma.
Shoot the Book! is an initiative that was launched at the 2014 Cannes festival by the SCELF – Société civile des éditeurs de langue française –, and aims to promote French editorial works for audiovisual adaptations.
During a Mifa Shoot the Book Anim' session, six French works, chosen by an international jury of audiovisual professionals for their potential to be adapted into an animation, will be pitched by their publishers. Three international works from Japan, Canada and Switzerland shall also be added.
The Annecy 2019 jury members:
- Corinne Destombes, Folimage, France
- Fonda Snyder, Alchemy Ink, USA
- Emmanuel Bernard, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, France
- Laëtitia Favro, Le Journal du Dimanche, France
Session in English