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 1000 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.

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 France TV 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 the artis­tic direc­tor.
Her lat­est activ­i­ties include the cre­ation of the pod­cast ​“Ani­ma­tion Hot­line”, the selec­tion for the Cesar and CNC, the men­tor­ship of junior pro­duc­ers for CEE ani­ma­tion workshop.

He 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.

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.