oTTo Alder
is the former program director of the Stuttgart International Animation
Film Festival. In 1995 he was involved with the founding of the Fantoche
Festival in Baden, Switzerland. Since 1993 he has been responsible for
the animation program at the Leipzig Festival in Germany. He has also served
on the juries and selection committees of numerous festivals, and is working
on a documentary film about the Russian animation artist Fedor Chitruk.
Joan Ashworth is Course Director for the Royal College of Art in
London.
Thomas Basgier is the European representative for Animation World
Network. He has a strong background in animation as well as communications
and multimedia. For more than ten years, he has organized programs for
international festivals, and published numerous articles on the subject
of animation. From 1987 to 1992, he organized and programmed one of the
premiere European animation festivals, the International Animation Film
Festival of Stuttgart. He also specializes in the conception and realization
of multimedia and Internet projects. He is currently working on such projects
with one of the biggest communication agencies in southwest Germany.
Edmundo Barreiros is a 31 year-old journalist. As a reporter he
has covered all of the Anima Mundi editions. He is an animation
lover and also a writer and cartoon critic. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he
lives there with his son who has been accompanying him to the animation
festivals for the last four years.
Yvette Burrows is Animation Coordinator at the Museum of the Moving
Image and as such is responsible for the Animator-in-Residence Scheme and
the British Animation Training Scheme.
Christian Clark is a former cartoonist and a two-time Emmy award-winning
writer for the children's television show Sesame Street. He is currently
the head of the Meena Communication Initiative in UNICEF's regional office
for South Asia located in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Jennifer Deare is the founder and president of Deare Marketing,
Inc., a New York-based marketing and communications industry which specializes
in strategic alliances, continuity programs, direct mail, promotion and
strategic marketing. Over the past ten years, the agency has served a broad
variety of clients, particularly in the entertainment, consumer products,
financial services, retail and technology industries.
John Goldsmith is a principle of Metropolis, an agency specializing
in the representation of animation talent. Mr. Goldsmith also runs Metropolis
Animation, a production company associated with Columbia/TriStar
Television.
Wendy Jackson is Associate Editor of Animation World Magazine.
Heikki Jokinen is a freelance journalist and critic specializing
in animation, short film and comics. He lives in Helsinki, Finland and
is a board member of ASIFA-Nordic, the ASIFA regional organization for
the five Nordic and three Baltic states. The next Cartoon Forum will be
the fifth one in which he has participated.
Heather Kenyon is Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Magazine.
Teresa A. Klein is a freelance writer, specializing in toys,
licensing and related industries. She serves on the board of directors
for the non-profit organizations, Women In Toys and Editorial Freelancers
Association, and was editor of The Toy Book and founding editor
of Specialty Retailer magazines. She resides in New Jersey with
her husband and two preschool-aged children.
Don Perro is an animator and designer currently coordinating the Commercial
Animation Program at Capilano College in North Vancouver, Canada.
Aida Queiros is a co-director of Anima Mundi. She is a founder and
president of Campo Quatro Desenhos Animados, an animation studio in Rio
Di Janiero that produces commercials. She also directs her own animated
shorts and teaches animation courses in several institutions.
Karen Raugust is the author of several books and reports on licensing
and entertainment, including The Licensing Business Handbook, International
Licensing: A Status Report (both available from EPM Communications,
New York) and Merchandise Licensing for the Television Industry
(available from Focal Press, Newton, Mass.). She also writes about licensing,
animation and other topics for publications including The Hollywood
Reporter, Publishers Weekly and Animation Magazine, and acts as a consultant
to the licensing and entertainment industries. She is the former Executive
Editor of The Licensing Letter.
Dave Siegel is the general manager of Small Talk, a leading
kids marketing and advertising consulting group. He has been in the consumer
packaged goods marketing and advertising business for more than 25 years,
with over 20 years of hands-on experience marketing to kids. Dave has been
interviewed in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlanta
Constitution, Advertising Age, BrandWeek, and many others. He has also
been a featured speaker for the American Marketing Association, Disney,
Grocery Manufacturers Association and the U.S. Olympic National Convention,
among others.
Joe Toledo is executive producer at North Communications, an Internet
kiosk developer based in Marina del Rey, California.
Lea Zagury is one of the four directors of the Anima Mundi Festival.
She is an independent filmmaker of animated shorts and studied Experimental
Animation at Cal Arts. She has since worked at PDI in film effects and
in development for Turner Feature Animation. She is now developing an animated
television series with Troon in L.A..
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