Mod­er­a­tors & Chairpersons

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.

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”).

Work­ing as an inde­pen­dent cre­ative devel­op­ment pro­duc­er, con­sul­tant, recruiter, men­tor, ​“match­mak­er”, Réka is orig­i­nal­ly Hun­gar­i­an, liv­ing in Ger­many. She has 30+ years inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence in 2D-3D Ani­ma­tion, start­ed on the cre­ative side (ink& paint, colour­ing super­vi­sor, com­pos­i­tor, tech­ni­cal direc­tor, flash ani­ma­tor), short­ly switched to dif­fer­ent producer/​management roles, also in VFX and game indus­try. She is an Eval­u­a­tion Expert for EACEA Video Games. 

She has a huge inter­na­tion­al net­work, par­tic­u­lar­ly extend­ed in Hun­gary, CEE coun­tries & Ger­many. As match­mak­er she is help­ing companies/​artists find­ing the best match­ing coop­er­at­ing part­ners, poten­tial clients. As cre­ative Recruiter, she does team build­ing, tal­ent acqui­si­tion, helps young tal­ents internationally.

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.

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.