Asian Animation Summit 2012: Day One, to the sound of cash landing on a table

Thirty-six projects on offer, overwhelmingly for kids, ten from Australia - the inaugural summit started with a raft of televisual charm and a heap of hope, as Dr O'Donnell keenly observed.
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Thirty-six projects on offer, overwhelmingly for kids, ten from Australia – the inaugural summit started with a raft of televisual charm and a heap of hope, as Dr O’Donnell keenly observed.

On a planet far, far away (it could, as well, be South Perth) a handsome young HERO and his devoted, but not slavish and utterly platonic FEM, battle the dark and marshal forces of evil (or their school teachers and parents) with all the idealism and ingenuity that a 14 year old can command.

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Dr Vincent O'Donnell
About the Author
Once a film editor, Dr Vincent O’Donnell is a historian of Australian film agencies. He is an honorary fellow in RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication, a past president of the Producers and Directors Guild of Victoria and former executive producer at Film Victoria.