Your chair­per­son

Doc­teur d’État en Droit, Mas­ter of Laws, Chris­t­ian Davin start­ed his pro­fes­sion­al career in 1975 as an inter­na­tion­al busi­ness lawyer. In 1989, he became pres­i­dent of France Ani­ma­tion. In 1997, he found­ed Prod­co Alphan­im which became Gau­mont Ani­ma­tion as of 2009. He has pro­duced over 1,000 hours of ani­ma­tion for tele­vi­sion and cin­e­ma. He retains a minor­i­ty inter­est in Wow Unlim­it­ed Media (Cana­da), now Genius Brand Inter­na­tion­al (USA/​Canada). He has been Pres­i­dent of the Board of Direc­tors of CAR­TOON since 2009. He now acts as a psy­cho­an­a­lyst in Paris.

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.

After earn­ing a degree in cin­e­ma and art his­to­ry, Claire dis­cov­ers ani­ma­tion while super­vis­ing co-pro­duc­tions of children’s pro­gram­ming for France 2 and France 3. She spe­cialis­es as an ani­ma­tion writer in series, short films and long fea­tures as ​“Long­way North” for which she writes the orig­i­nal screen­play. She also writes chil­dren’s books and runs reg­u­lar work­shops at the ani­ma­tion school La Poudrière. She co-found­ed a pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny with Julien Bis­aro, Pico­lo Pic­tures, in which she pro­duces and co-writes ​“Shooom’s Odyssey”. Win­ner of 54 inter­na­tion­al awards, the film has been nom­i­nat­ed for the 2021 Cesar, received the Cristal for Best TV Pro­duc­tion at Annecy Film Fes­ti­val 2020 and the Best Pro­duc­tion Design at the 48th Annie Awards. They are cur­rent­ly in the process of cre­at­ing a 75′ fea­ture film called ​“The Lit­tle Run”.

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.