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Kocca Selects 18 Companies for 'Animation Bootcamp'
Provides Mentoring, Bible and Trailer Production Support

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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency announced on the 25th that they have selected eighteen companies to participate in this year’s ‘Animation Bootcamp.’ The ‘Animation Bootcamp’ is a program designed to discover K-animation with global competitiveness. It selects projects from the planning stage to enhance their artistic quality and provides investment and business opportunities. A representative from the Korea Creative Content Agency stated, “Participants receive benefits such as mentoring education, support for creating bibles and trailers, participation in competitive pitching, and follow-up support for production support projects. In particular, they can complete their bibles and trailers over six months while receiving advice from mentors who are experts in various fields.” The mentoring team includes former Iconix Executive Director Jeong Mi-kyung, former CEO of Tuba Entertainment Ahn Seong-jae, Heo Seon of Crazy Bird, PD Hana-rae of Epic Story Media, and Park Hyun-il, Executive Director of CJ ENM. The best work will be awarded the domestic animation initial main production support project. Excellent works and completed projects will receive additional points when applying for production support and overseas market participation support projects.

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Since 2017, the Korea Creative Content Agency has operated the ‘Animation Bootcamp,’ discovering about 100 animations at the planning stage. Through various supports, it has facilitated broadcasting on domestic and international broadcasters and online video services (OTT), as well as overseas exports and licensing contracts. Representative successes include Neotani Media’s ‘Petit Dragon’ and Hongdangmu’s ‘Alien Hunter Vera.’ The former signed a licensing export contract worth $100,000 with a Malaysian company and is preparing for global broadcasting through overseas OTT platforms. The latter is co-producing with the U.S. production company Kickstart Entertainment on a $6 million project. Kim Sang-hyun, head of the Broadcasting and Video Division at the Korea Creative Content Agency, said, “We will expand the budget and participation scale in the mid to long term and strengthen the linkage with production support projects to enhance the global competitiveness of domestic animation companies.”

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