TV Kids Festival Adds Kids’ Co-Production Panel to Lineup

Toon2Tango’s Ulli Stoef, Serious Lunch and Eye Present’s Genevieve Dexter, Boat Rocker Studios’ Jon Rutherford and Guru Studio’s Frank Falcone are set to take part in a panel on the ins and outs of kids’ co-productions during the upcoming TV Kids Festival.

Co-productions remain the lifeblood of the kids’ content financing system, but they are becoming more complicated. Stoef, CEO and executive producer at Toon2Tango; Dexter, the founder and CEO of Serious Lunch and Eye Present; Rutherford, the president of Boat Rocker Studios, Kids and Family and Rights; and Falcone, the president and executive creative director at Guru Studio, will share their insights in the Partner Potential session during the festival.

The festival will also feature a panel on acquisition strategies that includes, as previously announced, Cartoon Network’s Adina Pitt, ZDF’s Nicole Keeb, Kidoodle.TV’s Brenda Bisner and Hopster’s Ellen Solberg, along with Maud Branly, children’s acquisitions director and international TV channels children’s programming director of M6 Group, as a new addition.

The TV Kids Festival roster includes Dan Povenmire, whose credits include the global hit Phineas and Ferb; Traci Paige Johnson and Angela Santomero, the co-creators of the hit series Blue’s Clues and Blue’s Clues & You!; Eric Ellenbogen, the CEO and vice chair of WildBrain; Claude Schmit, the CEO of Super RTL; and Sebastian Debertin, the head of fiction, acquisitions and co-productions at KiKA.

Taking place from February 2 to 5, 2021, the TV Kids Festival will feature keynotes and panels with leading executives and creatives discussing the importance of alliances in producing and distributing top-notch kids’ programming today. It will be streamed live and available on-demand on World Screen’s brand-new, state-of-the-art events and festivals platform.

Registration will open soon.