CEE Animation Launches Animation HUB To Help Audiences Find Films After Their Festival Runs

CEE Animation has launched a new online discovery platform to give indie and international animated films a longer life after their festival runs.

Called Animation HUB (AHUB), the platform serves as a curated guide to nearly 4,000 animated titles of all shapes and sizes, helping audiences, educators, and industry professionals find films that are legally available across a range of viewing platforms. The initiative was developed to address a longstanding challenge in animation, where many shorts enjoy successful festival careers before becoming difficult or impossible for audiences to seek out once those runs end.

Rather than functioning as another streaming service, AHUB positions itself as an editorial and discovery platform. Users can browse thematic collections, curated selections organized by age group, style, and subject matter, as well as interviews, articles, educational resources, and industry news.

According to its creators, the goal is to help audiences engage with animation as an artistic medium rather than simply another content category. Lucia Dubravay Trautenberger, project manager of Animation HUB, explained in a release:

Thousands of animated films travel through festivals every year, yet many of them disappear from public visibility shortly after their premiere. At the same time, we live in an age of content overload, where discovering quality animation beyond the algorithms of major platforms is becoming increasingly difficult.

The platform also aims to serve the professional animation community. A section called New in Line highlights newly completed films seeking festival, distribution, and broadcast opportunities. Meanwhile, an upcoming expansion, AHUB Pro, will offer a dedicated space where producers and creators can present projects in development or production and connect with distributors, sales agents, broadcasters, co-production partners, and festival programmers.

AHUB was developed by the Central and Eastern European animation network CEE Animation and is supported by Creative Europe MEDIA, the International Visegrad Fund, and several national and regional partners across Central Europe. The platform is now live at animationhub.eu.