Moderators
Each session is supervised by a moderator. They make sure that the keynotes & panels run smoothly.
John Lomas-Bullivant
- Country
- United Kingdom
John Lomas-Bullivant is the founder of Kickback Media, a children’s and YA storyworld producer. Kickback Media develops high concept, genre based storyworlds for animation, live action and publishing. Kickbacks first storyworld, the “21% Monster” trilogy, written by PJ Canning, was published in July 2022.
- Moderator
Martina Pestaj
- Country
- Slovenia
Martina Pestaj is the Head of Children’s and Youth Programmes at RTV Slovenija, where she has worked for number of years as a creator, editor, and scriptwriter. She is a selector for foreign animation and life-action series for children. As a Media Psychologist and TV expert she regularly collaborates with the Slovenian Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education on various cultural and art programmes in the fields of media, film, animation and theatre for children and youth.
- Moderator
Erik van Drunen
- Country
- Netherlands
After a short experience in psychiatric nursing and art therapy, Erik studied animation and photography. The path has led him through a wide range of activities in animation. As animation consultant and project manager of the Dutch Film Fund he reads piles of plans and scripts and sees films in all stages of production. He is curator of artist talks at FANTOCHE international Animation Festival. This keeps him in close contact with the rising troops of new animation.
Chairpersons
In order to help the producers present their project, CARTOON assigns to each of them a neutral, experienced animation consultant.
Christophe Erbes
- Country
- France
Christophe launched and headed few kids channels in Europe for CANAL+, CLT, Disney & Nickelodeon. He consulted for EBU, Ubisoft, Magelis a.o. and curates (CARTOON, APDs & Ventana Sur). He writes kids books, TV series (“Ella, Oscar & Hoo”) and movies and co-founded Godo Films (“Team Nuggets”, “Fleak” & “Alpha Two’s Dream Journey”).
- Chair
Charlotte Monsarrat
- Country
- France
Charlotte Monsarrat spent over ten years with Caribara, as sales manager and producer. Now independent, she continues to work on the editorial development of Caribara Production projects. In parallel, she writes animation projects, children’s stories and published her first novel for adults in 2023.