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Cartoon Springboard 2026, Madrid – Personal stories, young adult animation and the funding challenge for digital-first creators Juha Fiilin | Director & Creative Producer, Fiilin Good Films Cartoon Springboard might just be my favourite animation event! Three days in Madrid, full of young talent, fresh ideas and conversations that went well beyond the pitch decks. I had the pleasure of joining two expert panels, and really enjoyed the one-to-one mentoring meetings too. My own

Last week at Finnish Film Affair and Nordic Genre Lab in Helsinki, one thought kept coming back: The audience has changed faster than the film business. A lot of the way films are financed and distributed is still based on systems built decades ago. Theatrical windows, home video, pay TV, free TV and then streaming. Some of those are still working, some are shrinking, and some seem to be going full circle. Meanwhile, audiences have moved on much faster. The younger audience i

Fiilin Good Films’ anime-influenced psychological horror animation, selected for the inaugural Nordic Genre Lab. The company’s anime-influenced psychological horror feature will take part in the first Nordic Genre Lab during Finnish Film Affair in Helsinki. We’re very happy to share that Fiilin Good Films’ animated psychological horror feature Echo Chamber has been selected for the first edition of Nordic Genre Lab. The selection was announced today by Screen International /

When Fiilin Good Films joined AV Growth in autumn 2024, we were not looking for one simple answer to growth. Like many independent audiovisual companies, we already had projects, partners, experience, ambition and many moving pieces. What we needed was a better map. The audiovisual landscape keeps changing. Film, television, animation, games, publishing, digital platforms, AI, Web3, crowdfunding, private investment and international co-production are no longer separate conver