NipponNordic Universe Accelerator is a four week intensive skill-up creative lab, during which sixteen participants - directors, game designers, fresh graduated students - selected across Japan and Scandinavia, develop graphic and story worlds, either related to video or mobile game, animation TV- or web-series, documentary, VR, AR and transmedia content.
Experts from the graphic industries are expected to follow-up the development of the participants’ projects, helping them to identify their audiences, enhance their commercial potential and highlight the strengths of their IPs. Inaugural workshops and conferences will launch the one-month program, offering strong bases to the participants, leading them to an efficient project development. The overall program aims to spark and ensure the continuous development of original, high quality animation / cross-media or game content, which can resonate both artistically and commercially in the markets of Denmark, Japan and hopefully beyond.
NipponNordic is running for the second year to insure the continuity of lasting relationships between the two territories, to address the complementarity of those markets, and highlight partnerships and co-productions as viable alternatives to the subcontracting practices, which are a challenge for the creative industry in the era of globalization.
Dates
2017: September 11-29
2018: September 3-30