Get To Know The 5 Delegates And Their Initiatives Chosen For This 12 months’s Tales X Girls Program
The Worldwide Federation of Movie Producers’ Associations (FIAPF) and Girls in Animation (WIA) have unveiled the 5 delegates chosen to take part within the second version of Tales x Girls.
This 12 months’s delegates are, in alphabetical order:
Superpunk – Brazil. A mission led by Mirtes Santana (with Guilherme Petreca).

Negocio de Brujas (Witch’s Enterprise) – Chile. A mission led by Paulina Sanhueza Meléndez (with Alejandra Jaramillo Fanta)
Nerea – Dominican Republic. A mission led by Fabiola Contreras Rosso (with Arima Léon)
The Golden Pig – Malaysia. A mission led by Hwei Ling Ow (with Kate Goodwin)
Papo Hapo – Türkiye/Kenya. A mission led by Irmak Atabek Ndungu (with Mbithi Masya)
Tales x Girls was established in 2022 to offer worldwide alternatives to girls animators who wish to inform genuine tales from rising animation communities in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.
Greater than 130 artists utilized to take part on this 12 months’s program. The 5 chosen delegates will take part in a sequence of mentoring periods with animation consultants and one-on-one teaching periods the place they may discover ways to pitch. All 5 will then make the most of these classes to carry their initiatives to Annecy’s MIFA Pitching Classes.
Marge Dean, WIA president, mentioned in a launch: “For 10 years, WIA has been centered on reaching 50/50 gender parity in animation by 2025. The Tales x Girls program aligns completely with our mission of supporting and empowering folks of underrepresented gender identities in animation. It’s actively eradicating limitations confronted by girls and gender non-conforming creatives and making house for them to inform their genuine tales. We will’t wait to see the expansion and growth of this worldwide group of gifted creators.”
Mentioned Luis Alberto Scalella, president of FIAPF: “FIAPF is proud to carry the second version of Tales x Girls with WIA with the help of The Walt Disney Firm and Sony Footage Leisure. Our business, specifically its manufacturing section, is dedicated to bringing new tales and new voices to our audiences internationally. Tales x Girls helps the work of girls animators from areas which can be much less seen within the worldwide market and is an additional contribution to the collective efforts made by this business in that area. As the worldwide voice for producers worldwide, FIAPF promotes all types of movie genres, together with animation and its common language.”
Tales x Girls is sponsored by The Walt Disney Firm, with extra help from Sony Footage Leisure.