The non-profit company Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH (FMF) acts on behalf of the company‘s associates: the City of Stuttgart, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (for the State of BadenWürttemberg) and the City of Ludwigsburg. The FMF’s largest event is the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) which takes place at the end of April/beginning of May of each year. It is one of the world‘s largest animation festivals and evolved into a crowd-puller and must-go for professionals thanks to its programme, numerous (Oscar-qualifying) competitions, and its intersections with other disciplines such as games and music, art, and science. Animation Production Days (APD) takes place in parallel with ITFS. It is the most important co-production and financing market for animation in Germany and is organised by FMF in cooperation with the FMX – Film and Media Exchange. With the special combination of film festival, specialist conference and financing market, the events have become a unique platform for the financing and development of animation projects and attract up to 6,000 professional visitors to Stuttgart every year. The second highlight of the FMF is Raumwelten – Platform for Scenography, Architecture and Media, Germany`s leading industry event for spatial communication, which takes place annually in November in Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart. Here visitors and the general public can learn, by means of workshops, panels, and keynote lectures, how space can become an experience in a holistic way and how to create exciting connections between digital media and real space. In addition, FMF is co-organising the NaturVision Filmfestival, Germany‘s oldest and largest film festival on nature, wildlife and the environment which takes place in Ludwigsburg.