Scheriaa Productions Scheriaa Productions Scheriaa Productions animation & fiction film

 

What We Do:

We address the story aspects of your animation film; we examine its theme, plot structure, characters, context, in accordance with your already stated idea and director's own intentions. We come up with solutions to story problems you face, and provide examples of fine practices for your project.

Why It Is Essential:

Animation films need to balance and include both a strong narrative and a strong aesthetic component.  Animation medium doesn't have the constraints of a live-action script sometimes, but this in turn leaves too many options open to the animation filmmaker, which they need to evaluate carefully before selecting. Indie animation production has also proliferated and expanded in recent years; it is advisable to take note of all recent developments in your precise field you wish to position your animation project.

 

What We Cover

Scrutinize the main theme of the film / improve your message
Review character development, arcs and emotions
Examine dramaturgy, plot beats and scene by scene analysis
Deepen the research, i.e. social, historical, political, visual contexts

How The Service Works:

  • You submit your film project and we view it
  • We arrange the first online session to present you with feedback and story solutions
  • We examine your reworked project, and we conduct our second online session for a final guidance

What You Need to Submit:

A dossier with the following

  • Story Synopsis (max. 200 words)
  • Project description (technique, duration etc.) and directors intentions (max. 600 words)
  • Script/ Storyboard / Animatic
  • Visuals

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More Info and Fees:

  • All sessions are confidential
  • Duration: 2 x 1h (online)
  • Fee: 220 EUR (VAT 20% included in price)

 

About Us:

Vassilis Kroustallis: He is a film and animation professional with more than 10 years of animation festival experience, reporting and serving as jury in many animation festivals. He is a member of ASIFA-Hollywood, and he runs (since 2011) animation news website Zippy Frames. He has served in animation festival positions, and he is currently serves as Animation Programme director at PÖFF Shorts, Estonia.

Olga Bobrowska: She was born in 1987. She has a Ph.D. in Film Studies at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, specialized in classic Chinese animated film and an author of academic articles on the subjects of Polish and Chinese animation. She is the festival director of StopTrik International Film Festival (Maribor, Slovenia; Lodz, Poland), a festival dedicated to stop motion animation, the curator of animation programmes presented at festivals in e.g. Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, The Netherlands and China. She collaborates with the festivals Animateka (Ljubljana), Etiuda&Anima (Kraków) and Krakow Film Festival. In 2016 she co-edited the monograph “Obsession Perversion Rebellion. Twisted Dreams of Central European Animation”.

 

Our Partner:

Zippy Frames is the premier news website on independent animation. Since 2011, it covers and reports on all major animation events, it hosts and presents short animation films from all over the world, and it informs and analyzes trends that directly concern independent animation and its practitioners.

 

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Check our animation festival and events consulting services by Scheriaa Productions, in collaboration with FestAgent and Zippy Frames.

What We Do:

We join your animated film with the right animation festivals for your film. It's a matchmaking process that we propose for you as a filmmaker and your film towards both animation festivals and animation pitching events. We prepare a festival roadmap for you to follow.

Scheriaa Productions joins forces with both FestAgent film distribution agency to implement the festival submission process with the utmost efficiency, and Zippy Frames news website to make use of its updated and extended animation festival database.

Why It Is Essential:

Animation films, most of them in the short variety, can usually travel everywhere and effortlessly, without any premiere status. Yet, the fact that they can travel is no proof that they do travel, at least as efficiently as they could. While some films understandably get the big attention everywhere in the festival circuit, there are films that could benefit more if they had a more focused approach on where their filmmakers really want them to be. With everyone targeting the exact same group of festivals (and with festivals receiving an ever-increasing number of submissions), it is essential to know your way through festivals -even if you have to submit to most of them.

How The Consultancy Works

  1. You submit your film and we watch it
  2. We arrange an online consultancy section
  3. We present you with a plan of action that includes:
  • the films first and alternative choices of festival premieres
  • not-to-miss festival participations

a detailed map of festival /event nodes to follow that could actually prove beneficial to your film's visibility and career

About Vassilis Kroustallis: He is a film and animation professional with more than 10 years of animation festival experience, reporting and serving as jury in many animation festivals. He is a member of ASIFA-Hollywood, and he runs (since 2011) animation news website Zippy Frames. He has served in animation festival positions, and he is currently serves as Animation Programme director at PÖFF Shorts, Estonia.

Festival Submissions

  • Submit entry forms, track results, help to organize your visit to the festival.
  • Developing festival distribution strategy in collaboration with directors and producers and select festival list for months ahead.
  • Submitting festival entry forms due to list and deadlines of the festivals.
  • Delivering all necessary info for festivals for their printed catalogues and dcp copies for screenings. Coordination of the communication in case

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More Info & FAQ  below:

 

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Our Partners:

FestAgent is a leading film festival distribution agency, established in 2010, based in Moscow. Services provided by agency covers full circle of festival distribution: promotion, dcp's, poster design and subtitling. Portfolio includes over 500 films.

Zippy Frames is the premier news website on independent animation. Since 2011, it covers and reports on all major animation events, it hosts and presents short animation films from all over the world, and it informs and analyzes trends that directly concern independent animation and its practitioners.