Tag: Lion Forge Animation

Carl Reed, producer of the Academy Award-winning short Hair Love and co-founder of Lion Forge Animation, has set up Composition Media, an animation studio with much of the content highlighting minority and underrepresented communities.

David Steward II’s Lion Forge Animation (Hair Love) has partnered with St. Louis-based Nine PBS for the new multimedia initiative Drawn In, designed to positively represent children of color and help close the literacy gap.

HBO Max, Cartoon Network and Lion Forge Animation are working together to adapt the Dark Horse Comics/YouNeek Studios graphic novel series Iyanu: Child of Wonder into a 2D animated show.

David Steward II’s Lion Forge Animation studio (Hair Love) has expanded its leadership team with a pair of new appointments.

Lion Forge Animation (Hair Love), Polygram Entertainment and Tuff Gong Collective are set to adapt the picture book Marley and the Family Band for the screen.

Canadian-U.S. company bulbKIDZ (Gopher It!, TuTiTu, NuNi) and the Academy Award-winning Lion Forge Animation (Hair Love) are set to co-develop and produce Alien Baby Sitters.

Lion Forge’s David Steward II, Big Bad Boo’s Shabnam Rezaei and Safi Ideas’ Wa’qaar Mirza took part in a frank discussion on how far the kids’ business still has to go to fully engage with diversity and inclusion at the TV Kids Summer Festival.

Lion Forge Animation (Hair Love) and BRON Digital have aligned to produce the children’s animated series Heiress, which will be accompanied by interactive games and virtual worlds.

A session during the TV Kids Summer Festival will feature Lion Forge’s David Steward II, Big Bad Boo’s Shabnam Rezaei and Safi Ideas’ Wa’qaar Mirza discussing the importance of representation in kids’ programming.

David Steward II, founder of Lion Forge Animation, behind the Oscar-winning animation Hair Love, talks about the importance of showcasing diversity in content that better reflects the world we live in.