Euro Connection

Euro Connection is the European Short Film Co-production Forum taking place each year at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market. This business platform aims at fostering partnerships between European production companies, funders and broadcasters for short film projects. It is open to all producers planning a short film project as a European co-production. It is organized by Sauve Qui Peut le Court Métrage (Clermont-Ferrand) in association with the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC), with the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme and the PROCIREP.

Submission
Each year 11 projects are selected across Europe to participate in Euro Connection, with the help of a network of national correspondents in each of the associated countries. As a national correspondent, AG Kurzfilm is in charge of the submissions from Germany.

Short film projects have to be submitted directly to AG Kurzfilm.
>> DEADLINE: 20 October 2024


Eligibility Criteria

• The project is a short film (animation, fiction, creative documentary, VR project).
• The duration does not exceed 30 minutes.
• The project must have partial funding granted by an external source (third party organisation)
• The producer intends to develop the film as an international coproduction.
• Shooting or production shall start no earlier than June 2025.

Selection Process
An independent jury of experts recommends a German project for the participation in Euro Connection, which is then referred to an European jury in Clermont-Ferrand for the final selection process.
The 11 invited projects from the associated countries are being presented by their producers in the course of a pitching during the Short Film Market at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. The invitation includes a travel grant, hotel accommodation, meals and accreditation to the Short Film Market and festival in Clermont-Ferrand.

The producers of the remaining finalist projects, outside the final selection, will be given priority invitations to be part of the Producer's Focus.


Euro Connection 2024
For the Co-Production Forum 2024, the project JUGGERNAUT (prod.: Neozoon) was recommended to the international jury in Clermont-Ferrand.

The Book of Projekts 2024 can be downloaded below.

Contact (AG Kurzfilm): Franziska Kache | kache@ag-kurzfilm.de

For the first time this year, a session with XR projects will be presented as part of Euro Connection. Producers wishing to apply with an XR project are invited to do so using following form.

Eligibility criteria:

> AR/VR/XR projects with a maximum duration of 45 minutes.
> ... presented by a production company based in the European Union
> ... with initial/partial funding secured
> ... whose production will not start before June 2025

The selection committee set up by the organisers will select up to 4 XR projects.

See website: www.clermont-filmfest.com