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Tues / Feb 14 / 2017 Company Profiles 2 Atomic Cartoons 3 DHX Media 4 Flying Kraken 5 Kickstart 6 Rainmaker Studios 7 Slap Happy Cartoons 8 Yeti Farm Creative 9 Canadian Media Producers Association – BC Producers Branch 10 Youth Media Alliance 11 Creative BC Lunch with Animation BC 1 ATOMIC CARTOONS DHX MEDIA Award-winning Atomic Cartoons, a Thunderbird Films company, is a full- DHX Media Ltd. (www.dhxmedia.com) is a key player internationally in the production, distribution, service animation studio located in Vancouver’s busy Animation District. broadcast and licensing of entertainment content for children and families. Owner of the world’s Atomic Cartoons creates, produces and finances animation for distribution largest independent library of kids’ and family content, at more than 11,000 half-hours, DHX Media across multiple channels. Atomic Cartoons is an artist’s studio that includes some is recognized globally for such brands as Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Caillou, In the Night Garden, of Canada’s most creative animators, directors, producers and writers. Adept at multiple Inspector Gadget, Make It Pop, Slugterra and the multiple award-winning Degrassi franchise. genres and animation styles, Atomic Cartoons is recognized internationally as one of the leading DHX Media is comprised of four main business units: DHX Studios creates high-quality original animation studios in North America. entertainment at its Vancouver and Halifax animation studios, its Toronto live-action studio, and Since its founding more than 17 years ago, Atomic has worked for clients such as Marvel in working with top international producers; DHX Distribution is a major provider of content to the Animation, Cartoon Network, Nelvana, Warner Bros. and Walt Disney to name a few. Notable, global market; DHX Television, home to the Family suite of channels, is dedicated to delivering too, is Atomic’s success with its homegrown shows; award winning international hit Atomic Betty, best-in-class programming to Canadian families; and DHX Brands specializes in creating, building preschool production Nico Can Dance and Beat Bugs. Other work includes Little Charmers, Marvel’s and managing high-profile global entertainment brands within the children’s and young-adult Avengers Assemble, Rocket Monkeys, Counterfeit Cat, Max and Ruby and Transformers Rescue Bots. markets. DHX Media also owns the full-service international licensing agency, Copyright Promotions Licensing Group Ltd. (CPLG), which represents numerous entertainment, sport and design brands. DHX Media has offices in 15 cities worldwide, including Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Munich, Amsterdam and Beijing. The Company is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol DHXM, and on the Toronto Stock Exchange Jennifer Twiner-McCarron PRESIDENT under the ticker symbols DHX.A and DHX.B. Jennifer Twiner-McCarron joined Atomic Cartoons as the Head of Production in 2011 and supervised all in-house production. Under Jenn’s leadership, the team grew from 30 people to over 200 + today. Jennifer lead production on multiple productions including BeatBugs – Netflix’s original series for kids featuring the music of the Beatles, the award winning Rocket Monkeys for Teletoon, and the hit series Little Charmers for Spinmaster and Nelvana. Kirsten Newlands SVP, ANIMATION PRODUCTION As President of Atomic Cartoons, Jennifer is responsible for Atomic’s continued growth, creative As Senior Vice President of Animation Production for DHX Media, Kirsten is a passionate leader excellence and valued collaborations with its partners. who has executive produced more than 600 half hours of animated children’s television, including Prior to joining Atomic, Jennifer was Vice President of Production for Rainmaker Entertainment popular hits such as My Little Pony, The Deep, Kid vs Kat and most recently, Cloudy with a Chance in Vancouver. Over the past 15 years, Jennifer has produced or executive produced dozens of of Meatballs. Managing all animation production activities for DHX, she oversees the robust slate animated television series, video game cinematics, and direct to DVD features including the popular of both DHX wholly owned series, as well as the work for hire business. Kirsten’s enthusiasm Barbie Princess franchise with Mattel Filmed Entertainment. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts to nurture the creative artistry of the studio’s productions has positioned DHX as a key player from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and a degree in film studies from the Vancouver Film internationally in the creation of kids’ content. She currently oversees and manages the growing School. She is an award winning Producer having received several Leo awards, an ELAN, and a operations across three studios with a combined fourteen animated series in production. DTV award, and was voted one of the “Top 25 Women in Animation” by Animation Magazine in 2004. Before moving into animation production 12 years ago, Kirsten held a range of production roles Jennifer’s greatest achievement, however, is her family and she cherishes spending time with her on live-action feature films and television series. She was actively involved in CineCity, CHUM eleven year old daughter and seven year old twins. Television’s commitment to the local film community to help emerging visible minority and aboriginal filmmakers produce short, dramatic films in the province of British Columbia. She is a Founding member of Drawn Together Vancouver, a past board member of Women in Film and Video Vancouver, is a graduate of the National Screen Institute’s Totally Television Programme, and of the Canadian Film Centre’s Producer’s Lab. 2 Lunch with Animation BC Lunch with Animation BC 3 FLYING KRAKEN KICKSTART Flying Kraken is an independent boutique IP and design studio based in Vancouver. Kickstart is a true independent with offices in Vancouver, Los Angeles, London, India and Hong After working as top level executives in studios for many years, Rose-Ann and Greg Kong. We are passionate about creatively collaborating with studios, agencies, brands, directors, officially released the Kraken in 2008. Kraken’s mandates are: to provide high quality, writers, designers and illustrators to tell great stories. At Kickstart we develop and produce our original conceptual design for development and production in film and television for clients own IP for film, TV and web. We also take great pride in our service-work for valued clients such as globally. Consult with clients in developing their own IPs. Create and develop our own projects which Mattel, Marvel, Hasbro and Spinmaster. we are truly passionate about. We are currently looking to align Kraken with like-minded partners. The company was founded by Jason Netter in 1999 and has been hard at work ever since. Kraken is dedicated to remaining a boutique studio. We work with clients one on one. Greg is the Whether it is through advancing an early concept, managing a production or applying one of our designer you will work with. With the multitude of styles Greg creates, it’s one stop shopping. Having many creative services, Kickstart maximizes its rich resources to bring cool ideas to life, in a been a production executive in a studio, Rose-Ann understands schedules, timelines, deliverables personalized and collaborative environment. and will work with you on your project’s needs. Our core services include development, live action production for film and television, design, Good design matters! We create stories by design and we create story in design! A partial list of animation, visual effects, integrated media, and co-financing, as well as literary publishing. our design clients: Silvergate Media, Bento box, eOne Family, Hit UK, DHX, Eh-Okay, Bardel Ent., Some of the projects that have kept a special place in our hearts over the years: Wanted (Universal), Hulu, Amazon, Spin Master and Mattel. Currently we are in development with a Canadian broadcast- Voltron Force (Nicktoons/World Event Productions), Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel), Finley the er on a 52 x 11 pre-school series titled Pop in Park. Fire Engine (Hallmark/BBC), The Amazing Screw-On Head (SciFi), Dance-A-Lot- Robot (Disney), A Monsterous Holiday (Cartoon Network). Kickstart is currently in Production on: season 2 of Ready Jet Go! (Wind Dancer / PBS), Fruit Rose-Ann Tisserand PRODUCER Ninja (Halfbrick / YouTube RED) and a new brand project for Mattel. Kickstart recently wrapped Rose-Ann began her entertainment career in live action television and feature film before crossing production on Bottersnikes and Gumbles (Netflix / Cheeky Little / Mighty Nice / Cake). over into animation. Rose-Ann has a unique perspective having built her career in both creative and the executive offices of production. She was Supervising Producer at Bardel Entertainment for 8 years, growing the studio from 75 to 350. The studio also expanded from 2D and Flash to include CGI and Harmony, proprietary as well as service work. Since Bardel, Rose-Ann launched Flying Kraken and continues to consult with studios for production, as well as creatively in development, while working on original Kraken properties. Heather Puttock CANADIAN CO-FOUNDER Credits include: Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Raven Tales: The Movie. Supervising Producer at Heather is a producer of animation and live-action and has worked in the children’s entertainment Twenty One Inc. for previsualization services on 5Nal Destination (WB), Superman: Man of Steel (WB) biz for 15 years. She has been with Kickstart since 2005 and set-up the Canadian expansion in and Arthur Christmas (Aardman/Sony). Supervising Producer at Bardel Entertainment for 8 years on Vancouver in 2007 overseeing the numerous projects that have run through the doors since its over 200+ hours of film and television IP and service work including Chaotic, Viva Pinata, Word World, inception. Wow Wow Wubbzy!, Zeke’s Pad, Edgar and Ellen and The Christmas Orange to name a few. Heather started in casting and voiceover for animation in Vancouver back in 2001 before running Rose-Ann is a dedicated animation professional in the community of Vancouver.