Animation Bucharest International Film Festival

Project facts

Project promoter:
ABI Foundation(RO)
Project Number:
RO-CULTURE-0012
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€175,943

Description

The project ABIFF is a result of identifying the need for raising awareness about animation as an instrument of expressing European cultural diversity. The project directly addresses and has a major impact on developing the degree of using IT&C and Digitalisation, of creativity and inovation, democratisation of culture, internationalisation of the cultural offer and promoting culture creators. The festival will be built as a tourist attraction, seeking to facilitate the export of cultural services regarding audio-visual art, further augmented by the connected proposed activities that happen before, during and after the festival, activities which should help further development of comptencies regarding cultural management and developing abilities of using IT&C in cultural reation. Further, a film festival dedicated to animation will act as an important pillar in developing, educating and famliarization of a large audience with this vast cultural domain represented by the cinematic arts with a focus on European and Romanian animation. The festival will take place in Bucharest and be duplicated in: Arad, Bacau, Baia Mare, Braila, Cluj, Constanta, Deva, Drobeta Turnu Severin, Galati, Iasi, Piatra Neamt, Pitesti, Ploiesti, Ramnicu Valcea, Suceava, Targu Jiu, Targu Mures, Timisoara. 

Summary of project results

A suspicion of fraud was issued in relation to this project (IR76), which is under investigation.

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