Along with other delights at Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Market, this year we participated at Euro Connection Coproduction Forum which fosters networking between producers, distributors and financiers of short films.

One of 18 projects selected for pitching sessions was Father, an animation-documentary project by the Bulgarian production company Compote Collective, in coproduction with Eyecatch Productions from Germany and Bonobostudio.  The producer Vanja Andrijevic was invited to participate at Euro Connection so she joined the Bulgarian part of the team (producer Maria Stanisheva, script writer Diana Ivanova and supervising director Ivan Bogdanov) for the presentation of Father.

Our collaboration with Compot Collective started during the Animation Coproduction Forum 2009 in Stuttgart where Father was awarded as the best project and was automatically nominated for this year's Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize.