Danish public broadcaster DR took home top honors at this year’s Cartoon Forum in Toulouse, capping an edition marked by self-reliance and continental solidarity. In the same spirit, France’s Mediatoon Distribution scooped Investor/Distributor of the Year, while Belgium’s Creative Conspiracy walked away with Cartoon Forum’s Producer of the Year accolade, as the co-production forum’s 36th edition navigated an industry in recalibration.

Indeed, as Europe’s animation ecosystem white-knuckles through the second year of a market contraction – driven in no small part by a sharp drop in U.S. commissions – bootstrap success stories were all the more irresistible to delegates and attendees in Toulouse.

Enter DR.

In 2023, Denmark’s oldest and largest media enterprise boldly upended a primet

See Full Page