Yarki Studio pitches Summer Kingdom at CEE Animation Forum

Describing your three-season animated series, introducing yourself and your studio, catching interest of the audience and doing it all in seven minutes! Does it sound at all possible? Of course it does!

May 2019 marked a very memorable event for Yarki Studio – we attended the leading pitching event for animated films in Central and Eastern Europe and pitched Summer Kingdom, our in-development animation project, for the first time!

Yarki Studio founders, Producer and Director of Summer Kingdom, Yana Palamarenko and Roman Kepkalo, are happy to share their impressions of the pitching and preparations to it:

“Pitching your new project is always challenging and makes you learn a lot of things. We changed our idea of presentation many times, whenever we picked more tips and tricks at CEE Animation Workshop. We are impressed with how thoroughly they prepared us for the pitching session and extremely grateful for all the useful information that helped us to improve Summer Kingdom.

When you present the project you created, you are very passionate about it. And you have this urge to tell as much about it as you can, describe all characters, relations between them, etc. But that wouldn’t really work with a seven-minute pitching and might just confuse the audience. That is why we gave a brief presentation of Summer Kingdom concept and interspersed it with some humor. And it worked out really well!

It was an honor to be part of CEE Animation Forum 2019. It was cognitive, insightful and really fun!”.