Your chair­per­son

Nuria González Blan­co is a writer, direc­tor and Acad­e­my Awards nom­i­nee pro­duc­er with over thir­teen years of expe­ri­ence in the ani­ma­tion indus­try. She stud­ied ani­ma­tion at Edin­burgh Col­lege of Art where she received a BAF­TA New Tal­ent nom­i­na­tion for her grad­u­a­tion film ​“Domingueros”. Since then, Nuria has worked across a vari­ety of roles in chil­dren’s tele­vi­sion, adver­tis­ing and film. Past projects include the award-win­ning short ​“Vio­let”; the Inter­na­tion­al Emmy Kids Award nom­i­nee ​“Puf­fin Rock”; the Gold­en Globe and Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed fea­ture ​“The Bread­win­ner”; the IFTA win­ner and Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed short ​“Late After­noon”; and the new pre-school TV series ​“Sil­ly Sun­days”, a project she cre­at­ed and directed.

Clemence is a free­lance film pro­gram­mer, cura­tor and men­tor spe­cialised in ani­ma­tion. She grad­u­at­ed from INA in audio­vi­su­al and dig­i­tal footage preser­va­tion then, from Gob­elins, in pro­duc­tion man­age­ment. For more than ten years, she has enjoyed diver­si­fy­ing her expe­ri­ence through var­i­ous oppor­tu­ni­ties: as an archivist for FTV and CANAL+, as a pro­duc­tion assis­tant for Team­TO, as a devel­op­ment man­ag­er for La Cabane. Mean­while, she has con­tributed to major events such as OIAF, the FMX for Unre­al, The Ani­ma­tion Work­shop as a res­i­den­cy man­ag­er, Annecy fes­ti­val as a pro­gram­mer and mod­er­a­tor and, late­ly, the French ani­ma­tion film fes­ti­val as artis­tic direc­tor. Her lat­est activ­i­ties include the cre­ation of the pod­cast ​“Ani­ma­tion Hot­line”, the selec­tion for the Cesars & CNC and the men­tor­ship of junior pro­duc­ers for CEE Ani­ma­tion workshop.

David Mata­moros is simul­ta­ne­ous­ly com­bin­ing cin­e­ma film­mak­ing with writ­ing. As a pro­duc­er, he pro­duced over 20 films and TV series, includ­ing ani­ma­tion. He’s cur­rent­ly work­ing on three ani­mat­ed fea­tures in co-pro­duc­tion with Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca. His recent works have won in Berlin and Toron­to in 2019, while being dis­trib­uted world­wide. He works for CAR­TOON as a chair­per­son since many years.

Con­sul­tant, reporter for promi­nent indus­try media such as Vari­ety and Latam­Cin­e­ma, includ­ing Vari­ety’s year­ly selec­tions of tal­ent – ani­ma­tion, live action – at Cannes fes­ti­val for over a decade. Mem­ber of diverse insti­tu­tion­al boards for cin­e­ma aids at var­i­ous film bod­ies – Iber­me­dia, Spain’s ICAA, Valencia’s IVC and Catalonia’s ICEC. Asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at Cat­alo­ni­a’s Open Uni­ver­si­ty (UOC) of the fan­tas­tic cin­e­ma mas­ter. He teach­es class­es relat­ed to projects’ devel­op­ment and pitch­ing techniques.

Karen Mitre­ga is a respect­ed cre­ative pro­duc­er who has been in the children’s film and tele­vi­sion indus­try for over twen­ty years. Pre­vi­ous­ly Head of Children’s Con­tent at Super RTL, Karen was respon­si­ble for over­see­ing devel­op­ment, co-pro­duc­tions and acqui­si­tions of both ani­mat­ed and live-action series. Cur­rent­ly, Karen is work­ing with a vari­ety of inter­na­tion­al com­pa­nies as an inde­pen­dent acqui­si­tions, con­tent and devel­op­ment con­sul­tant, help­ing them shape both their cre­ative vision and strat­e­gy. Karen is a cura­tor for the Ger­man Ani­ma­tion Pro­duc­tion Days, men­tors film stu­dents and holds a degree in film and TV pro­duc­ing from the Fil­makademie in Ludwigsburg.

Manuela Lumb is an award-win­ning, high­ly expe­ri­enced cre­ative exec­u­tive of chil­dren’s film and TV. Through­out her career, she has pro­duced and com­mis­sioned world-class con­tent meet­ing the needs of a young audi­ence. Her spe­cial­i­ty is pro­duc­ing live-action dra­ma and ani­ma­tion. This has giv­en her a dis­tinc­tive exper­tise across the chil­dren’s media indus­try from orig­i­nal cre­ative con­cept, imple­men­ta­tion, brand devel­op­ment and finan­cial man­age­ment. She has a wide inter­na­tion­al net­work. She began her broad­cast­ing career as a com­mis­sion­ing edi­tor at SWR, fol­lowed by WDR, before join­ing a Berlin-based pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny as head of chil­dren’s depart­ment. For the pub­lic chil­dren’s chan­nel KiKA, she devel­oped and pro­duced var­i­ous famous chil­dren’s shows, ani­ma­tion, dra­ma and fac­tu­al sto­ries alike.

Start­ed a career in tele­vi­sion in 1992. Inde­pen­dent ani­ma­tion con­sul­tant (2006-2007) for Folim­age and Pïn­ka. Joined the Fab­rique d’Images ani­ma­tion stu­dio in Lux­em­bourg (2007-2018). Cre­ative & exec­u­tive pro­duc­er of ​“Ooops! Back in the Deep End…”, ​“Bay­ala”, ​“Luis & the Aliens”, ​“Polo”, ​“Lit­tle Brown Bear” & ​“Percy’s Tiger Tales”. Inde­pen­dent media con­sul­tant since mid-2018, work­ing for inde­pen­dent ani­ma­tion pro­duc­ers, CAR­TOON and Cre­ative Europe-MEDIA.