Rise & Shine

Rise & Shine Competition

Rise & Shine is a project development and pitching lab for first and second-time professional filmmakers with their short films (up to 20 minutes), organized by Animafest Zagreb and Animateka in collaboration with CEE Animation in three modules: focus on script, project follow-up, focus on pitch. The mentors of the fourth edition were director and scriptwriter Pedro Rivero (ES), producer Jelena Popović (NFB, CA), and producer Anna Vašova (13ka, CZ).

The projects will be competing for the CEE Animation Forum 2026 direct access award, for the Rise & Shine 2025 Audience Award and the Film Centre of Montenegro Award of EUR 1500, the Cinefila distribution award as well as the possibility to attend the Short Film Market Clermont-Ferrand 2026.