Every year since 1991, the organization CARTOON, with the support of the MEDIA program of the European Union, selects one short European animated film as the “Cartoon D’Or,” or “best European animation film.” Nominees are selected from the list of top prize-winning and recommended films from participating European animation festivals: Annecy, Brussels, Cardiff, Espinho, Stuttgart, Utrecht and, new this year, Oslo. The director of the Cartoon D’Or winning film will receive 25,000 ECU (approximately U.S. $25,000) to spend on a new animation project. This year’s nominees are “Famous Fred” by Joanna Quinn (U.K., her third nomination), “Frontière” by Christian Fisher (Germany) and Maud Gravereaux (France), “Heavy Stock, the Sound of the Railway” by Michael Salkeld (U.K.), “L’Enfant au Grelot” by Jacques-Remy Girerd (France), “Sientje” by Christa Moesker (Netherlands) and “T.R.A.N.S.I.T.” by Piet Kroon (Netherlands). A winner will be selected at the 1998 Cartoon Forum in Syros, Greece, September 23-27. The 1998 CARTOON Forum will be reviewed by Marie Beardmore in the November 1998 issue of Animation World Magazine. Plus, the organization CARTOON was profiled by Heikki Jokinen in the
October 1997 issue of Animation World Magazine .
