The 2024 edition of Cartoon Movie has selected 55 animated feature film concepts to present at its annual pitchfest in Bordeaux, France from March 5 to 7. 

One potentially buzzy European project heading to the event is Toon2Tango’s Agent 203. The German studio is developing this CG-animated film with Spain’s Mr. Miyagi Films, which pitched its 2D-animated feature Hanna and the Monsters at Cartoon Movie in 2021. 

Agent 203 is an 80-minute feature that expands on the same-name TV series, in which a young girl discovers that her missing dad is an intergalactic agent assigned to protect Earth from alien invaders. The show premiered on Super RTL (Germany) this fall, and has since been picked up by other broadcasters including Rai (Italy), ITVX (UK), TVP ABC (Poland), MBC (Middle East) and Minimax (Central Europe).

Making similar moves, Ireland’s Sixteen South is bringing a CG-animated film version (90 minutes) of its Odo series to Cartoon Movie. Poland’s Letko is co-producing both projects, and the film sees an owl and his friends banding together to save their forest from machines sent to raze it. Canal+ (France), ABC Australia, TVOKids (Canada) and RTE (Ireland) are just a few of the broadcasters that have acquired the preschool series, which premiered in 2021 on Channel 5’s Milkshake! (UK) and KiKA (Germany). 

And finally, Germany’s Studio 100 Media will pitch a new family-friendly film called Flamingo Flamenco at the event. This CG-animated movie is currently in development, with Spanish studios Sygnatia and 3 Doubles Producciones attached as co-producers. It stars a flamingo who loses her love of dancing—until she meets an exuberant lizard who helps her get her groove back. 

In terms of geographic composition, French companies are once again bringing the greatest number of projects to Cartoon Movie, with 15 films selected. Other countries that will be well-represented include Belgium, Germany and Spain (five each); Norway (four); and Italy, Luxembourg and Poland (three each). Since the first edition of Cartoon Movie took place in 1999, a total of 458 films presented at the event have secured financing there. 

Most of the projects that made this year’s cut are in development (60%). More than half are aimed at families (56%), with the other 44% split evenly between kids and teens/young adults/adults.

Additional project details are available on the Cartoon Movie website.