Speakers The World Animation VFX Summit. Didier Brunner is the acclaimed French producer and four time Oscar nominee best known for movies such as The Old Lady and the Pigeons, The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells, and Ernest and Celestine. He received a Csar French Oscar for Ernest and Celestine and won the prestigious award for best European producer at Annecy several times. He was also the recipient of several BAFTAs for The Old Lady and the Pigeons and The Triplets of Belleville as well as the prestigious Winsor Mc. Cay career achievement award from the Annies. He was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in December 2. Brunner founded the Trans Europe Film Co. Media Sense Communications, which became the successful production studio Les Armateurs in 1. Among Les Armateurs numerous feature projects are Kirikou and the Sorceress 1. Princes and Princesses 2. The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear 2. TChoupi 2. 00. 4, Linventaire Fantme 2. Kirikou and the Wild Beasts 2. Vos Papiers 2. 00. Join our Oscar insider email list to get the latest news on all things Academy Awards. Live presentations using CINEMA 4D by top CG professionals. Hosted by MAXON Computer USA. Oscar nominated The Secret of Kells 2. His many TV series include Belphgor, Tchoupi, Gift, Allez Raconte, Martine, TChoupiet ses amis, Cajou, La Fe Coquillette, Paco and Nouky et Lola. Last year, Didier created his new production company Folivari with Damien Brunner, Pauline Brunner, Thibaut Ruby, and Emmanuel Deletang. The company is producing a new animated series Ernest and Celestine, the Collection for France TV, and is developing two feature films, Pachamama and The Summit of the Gods as well as The Big Bad Fox and other tales by Benjamin Renner. Margie Cohn is the Head of Television for Dream. Works Animation where she oversees all television development and production, including the content for Dream. Works Animations multi year deal with Netflix. Among the series Cohn has overseen at Dream. Works Animation are the Emmy Award winning All Hail King Julien, The Adventures of Puss In Boots, Dragons Race to the Edge, The Mr. Peabody Sherman Show, and Dinotrux, the companys first original TV production. Candi Milo was just named best actress at the 2015 Chelsea Film Festival in NYC for her work in the awardwinning short film Bark Mitzvah. Cohn previously spent 2. Nickelodeon, where in various development and production roles she helped make the network number one in cable for 1. She served as President, Original Programming and Development overseeing the development and production teams on Nickelodeons live action hits including Sam and Cat, Haunted Hathaways, i. SANJAYS_SUPER_TEAM.jpg' alt='Watch New The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Animation Online' title='Watch New The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Animation Online' />In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a Disney television program, 80 million bought Disney merchandise. Carly, Big Time Rush, and Victorious, and the first originals for Nick at Nite See Dad Run Wendell Vinnie and Instant Mom. During her tenure with Nickelodeon Cohn also oversaw production on Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, Nickelodeons Emmy Award winning news show for kids. Cohn developed and produced Nicks first original television movies such as Swindle, Big Time Movie, Rags, Fairy Odd Parents Grow up Timmy Turner, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, and Merry Christmas Drake Josh. She also developed the hit animated series The Penguins of Madagascar and oversaw development and production for the animated series Avatar The Last Airbender Back at the Barnyard El Tigre The Adventures of Manny Rivera and Tak and the Power of Juju. She managed the production of all animation and live action series for Nickelodeon including Sponge. Bob Square. Pants The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius The Fairly Odd. Parents All That and The Amanda Show. She also oversaw the production of shows such as Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys, Hey Arnold, Kenan and Kel, Cousin Skeeter and The Secret World of Alex Mack. Charles Schulz once described himself as born to draw comic strips. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz read the Sunday comics from four different newspapers with his father each week, and enrolled in a correspondence course in cartooning at what is now the Art Instruction School, Inc. Minneapolis. After serving in the Army during World War II, Schulzs first big break came in 1. Lil Folks to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1. 95. 0, Schulz met with United Feature Syndicate, and on October 2 of that year, Peanuts, named by the syndicate, debuted in seven newspapers. Today, Peanuts appears in more than 2. Emmy winning television specials, films, books and thousands of consumer products. Charles Schulz died in Santa Rosa, California, in February 2. Sunday papers. ZAG is a private firm specializing in kids and family entertainment franchises. ZAGs multiple divisions include production companies and animation studios located in Europe, the United States and Asia that develop produce Feature Films, TV series, movies and games. Its animated TV division, Zagtoon, was created in 2. Jacqueline Tordjman, and has since produced almost 2. Other divisions include ZAG Animation Studios Joint venture with Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Haim Saban, ZAG Films, ZAG Digital and ZAG Records. Headlines from the network and other sources, as well as downloads of trailers and clips. Since 1949, the Emmy has represented the pinnacle of primetime television excellence. The Academy of Television Arts Sciences has preserved this rich history here. Find Oscars 2017 news and blogs about Oscar History. Read news about the Academy Awards nominees, winners, red carpet, awards night predictions and more. Will Finn, Art Department Pocahontas. Will Finn was born on November 1, 1958 in the USA as William Snelgrove Finn. He is known for his work on Pocahontas 1995. Celebrating the Art, Craft and Business of Animation. Candi Milo was just named best actress at the 2. Chelsea Film Festival in NYC for her work in the award winning short film Bark Mitzvah. A veteran voice actor and two time Annie Award nominee, Candi can currently be heard in Nickelodeons Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket as Goat as Vambres Brain on Cartoon Networks Mighty Magiswords and on Netflixs Puss in Boots as Kid Pickles. She is thrilled to be the official voice of Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. She is performing as Grandmama to sold out audiences in 3. D Theatricals musical The Addams Family starring Bronson Pinchot and Rachel York. Michael Barnathan is an Academy Award nominated producer and president of 1. Pictures, in which he is a producing partner with Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe. The company was formed in May 1. Recently Barnathan produced Christ the Lord, based on the best selling novel from Anne Rice, slated for an Easter 2. Buy Escape From Planet Earth Movie. Barnathan has served as producer on such Columbus directed projects as Nine Months, Rent, Stepmom, I Love You, Beth Cooper and Percy Jackson The Olympians The Lightning Thief. For 1. Oscar nominated The Help, Jingle All the Way, Cheaper by the Dozen, Christmas with the Kranks, Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian. He also served as exec producer on the first three Harry Potter movies, Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer and Night At The Museum Secret of the Tomb. Prior to joining 1. Pictures, Barnathan was senior VP of production at Largo Entertainment for four years. Next up, Barnathan will produce an adaptation of the graphic novel, I Kill Giants, to be directed by Academy Award winner Anders Walter. Antonio Canobbio was born in Paris, France. He began a career in animation working as a layout artist for Rooster Productions and other Parisian animation studios until MTV brought him to New York. Cartoon Network led him to Los Angeles where he then joined old friend, Chris Prynoski, at his new studio, Titmouse, Inc. He has been working as both a concept artist and creative director for all Titmouse projects including Metalocalypse, Black Dynamite and Motorcity. He is currently art directing Dream. Works series for Netflix, Turbo F. A. S. T. and Moonbeam City on Comedy Central. Steve Martino is best known for directing several of Blue Sky Studios most popular animated features. He most recently completed production on The Peanuts Movie from Blue Sky Studios and 2. Century Fox. Martino, along with Michael Thurmeier, also directed the global blockbuster Ice Age Continenal Drift. He also directed with Jimmy Hayward the 2. Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who He joined Blue Sky Studios in 2. Art Director for the feature film Robots. Early in his career, Martino was on frontier of the CG animation industry, with top animation jobs at the CranstonCsuri Productions in 1. ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO and ESPN. He helped start the award winning Metrolight Studios in the late 1. Level Studios in 1. Vice President of Creative. In 1. 99. 7, Martino helped start a second studio, Click 3.