Speak­ers & experts

Kate is senior con­sul­tant in screen indus­tries, work­ing with both pri­vate and pub­lic-sec­tor clients. In addi­tion to run­ning her con­sul­tan­cy prac­tice, Kate is a founder and Exec­u­tive Chair of Ani­ma­tion UK. Ani­ma­tion UK pro­vides the col­lec­tive voice of the Ani­ma­tion sec­tor and was set up to pro­mote, lob­by and sup­port the indus­try through the devel­op­ment of invest­ment, skills and advo­ca­cy. Kate rep­re­sents the sec­tor at gov­ern­ment lev­el and over­sees pol­i­cy advo­ca­cy in the UK and internationally.

Cris­t­ian is the founder of beQ enter­tain­ment, a pro­duc­tion house spe­cial­ized in ani­mat­ed TV/​Web series and fea­ture films. Senior ani­ma­tion pro­duc­er, CGI/VFX man­ag­er and super­vi­sor with more than 30 years of expe­ri­ence, backed up by valu­able expe­ri­ence, and spe­cial­ize in work­ing in clas­si­cal and new media, TV, cin­e­ma, the web, includ­ing adver­tis­ing, fash­ion, sport, art and museums.

Justė Michaili­naitė is a promis­ing pro­duc­er from Lithua­nia. After gain­ing valu­able expe­ri­ence in a num­ber of roles across the film indus­try, she is delv­ing deep­er to achieve fur­ther suc­cess in pro­duc­ing films – an area that holds great fas­ci­na­tion for her. Pro­duc­ing and co-pro­duc­ing fea­ture films as well as doc­u­men­taries and ani­ma­tions, Justė works with a wide range of emerg­ing tal­ents and is con­stant­ly seek­ing cap­ti­vat­ing sto­ries to tell. Also, she is the pres­i­dent of the Lithuan­ian Ani­ma­tion Association.

Fatouma­ta is a pro­gram adi­v­sor for the children’s chan­nel of Groupe M6 (Gul­li, Canal J, Tiji and M6Kid). She over­sees the devel­op­ment and the pro­duc­tion of ani­ma­tion TV series in pre-sales. Among the most famous TV series she super­vised there Boys, Girl etc, Jamie a des ten­tac­ules, Zig et Sharko. Fatouma­ta is also part of the edi­to­r­i­al board of M6 in charge of the study of the projects received. 

Flo­ri­an Cabane is in charge of pro­duc­tion at the ser­vice Ciné­ma de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur since 2005. He active­ly par­tic­i­pates in the sup­port of the writ­ing, the devel­op­ment and the pro­duc­tion of cin­e­ma and audio­vi­su­al projects. He also is a project man­ag­er in many oth­er fields such as ani­ma­tion, web cre­ation, video games, immer­sive projects and short films.

Writer-direc­tor turned pro­duc­er, Samuel Kamin­ka is the pres­i­dent and co-founder of SAM­KA group. The group is com­posed of the com­pa­nies Sam­ka (Ani­ma­tion, Paris), Kam&Ka (Fic­tion, Paris), Sklan&Ka (Fic­tion and doc­u­men­taries, Tel Aviv), Good Kar­ma (Fic­tion and ani­ma­tion, Milan), Jet­pack Dis­tri­b­u­tion (Inter­na­tion­al dis­tri­b­u­tion, Lon­don) and Unique Ani­ma­tion (2D deliv­ery stu­dio, Angoulême). Samuel also chairs the union of ani­ma­tion film pro­duc­ers (Ani­m­France).