Cartoon Italia, an organization dedicated to promoting animation production in Italy, announced that it has a new president in Francesco Manfio, general manager of Gruppo Alcuni. Having served as VP for the past three years, Manfio was unanimously voted into is new post by the members of the executive board during the recent assembly of Cartoon Italia. He has been a highly active member of the board and worked closely with outgoing president Pietro Campedelli.
‘The executive board is now determined to do its utmost in order to encourage the growth of this important cultural business sector to guarantee to Italian animation its deserved central role in the European market,’ Manfio states. ‘Furthermore, Cartoon Italia will support the creation of an European Association of animation producers in order to bring greater coherence to professionals in this domain.’
Manfio is an international expert in cinema and television for children. At Gruppo Alcuni, he is the exec producer and co-creator of the series Pet Pals, Leonardo, And Yet It Moves and Slash://, which is currently in production. He is the chairman of P.P.T.V. (the Association of the Theatre Professional Producers of Veneto) and serves on the board of directors of the Veneto Cinema Pro association. Manfio is also one of the founders of the International Centre for Children’s Communication, a meeting point between authors, scholars and producers of children’s programs that currently has members from 15 different Countries worldwide. In addition, he serves as publisher of Idee (Ideas), an Italian magazine about image education.
