Mod­er­a­tors & Chairpersons

Christophe worked for Canal+, Super RTL, Nick­elodeon and what became Sky and Dis­neyXD. He’s co-founder/cre­ative pro­duc­er at Godo (“Team Nuggets”, ​“Fleak” and ​“Alpha Two’s Dreamed Jour­ney”). He writes books, films and series and worked on brands like Maya The Bee, Cal­imero and Peanuts. With Oscar-win­ner Michael Dudok de Wit, he wrote two pic­ture books adapt­ed into ​“Ella Oscar & Hoo” (65x11’) and its pre­quel movie now in devel­op­ment. He hosts, men­tors and curates a.o. at APD, Annecy and Cartoon.

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. Kick­back works exclu­sive­ly with new fic­tion authors and devel­ops orig­i­nal projects to full pub­lish­ing man­u­script stage cre­at­ing orig­i­nal and immer­sive sto­ry­worlds. Kickback‘s first sto­ry­world, The 21% Mon­ster Tril­o­gy, writ­ten by Peter Can­ning, will be pub­lished by Usborne Books in July 2022. while The Kringlset Chron­i­cles is start­ing devel­op­ment as a Christ­mas fea­ture film. John Lomas-Bul­li­vant has over 25 years’ expe­ri­ence work­ing in children’s media with expe­ri­ence gained at Senior Exec­u­tive lev­el at Blooms­bury Pub­lish­ing – Direc­tor of IP & Brand Devel­op­ment, TV-Loon­land – Direc­tor of Pro­grammes, Pear­son Tele­vi­sion – Head of Ani­ma­tion and HiT Enter­tain­ment – Head of Devel­op­ment & Co-Productions.

Lisette Looman start­ed her career in ani­ma­tion in 2003. As a con­tent and pro­duc­tion man­ag­er she has worked on the devel­op­ment of var­i­ous ani­mat­ed series for chil­dren and oth­er inter­na­tion­al copro­duc­tions. Since 2020 she has been involved in var­i­ous projects on a free­lance basis and is cur­rent­ly work­ing as pro­duc­tion super­vi­sor on the NL/LUX ani­mat­ed movie ​‘Ben­jamin Bat’. She is also board mem­ber of the Kaboom ani­ma­tion fes­ti­val and mem­ber of the ani­ma­tion com­mit­tee of the Flan­ders Film Fund.

Christophe worked for Canal+, Super RTL, Nick­elodeon and what became Sky and Dis­neyXD. He’s co-founder/cre­ative pro­duc­er at Godo (“Team Nuggets”, ​“Fleak” and ​“Alpha Two’s Dreamed Jour­ney”). He writes books, films and series and worked on brands like Maya The Bee, Cal­imero and Peanuts. With Oscar-win­ner Michael Dudok de Wit, he wrote two pic­ture books adapt­ed into ​“Ella Oscar & Hoo” (65x11’) and its pre­quel movie now in devel­op­ment. He hosts, men­tors and curates a.o. at APD, Annecy and Cartoon.

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.