{"id":10032,"date":"2016-05-06T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T18:17:08","slug":"sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Productions Expands Senior Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN: Sunrise Productions, creators of the award-winning animated series <em>Jungle Beat<\/em>, has made a number of new senior appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Burgos will join the senior management team, where she will be responsible for driving commercial and business development. Her focus will be the deepening of current strategic partnerships, as well as the growth of new collaborations worldwide. Burgos has previously worked with Turner Broadcasting, Aardman Animations and Discovery Networks.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the story team are BAFTA winner Will Brenton and writer Robin Crowther-Smith. Brenton has co-created, written, produced and directed such kids\u2019 shows as <em>The Tweenies<\/em>, <em>Wibbly Pig<\/em> and <em>Mighty Mites<\/em>. Crowther-Smith has written for\u00a0<em>Shaun the Sheep<\/em> and <em>Morph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Eric Lessard will join the production team as animation director. He previously worked at DreamWorks as the senior animator on <em>Shrek<\/em>, <em>Shrek 2<\/em> and <em>Madagascar<\/em>, and as animation supervisor on <em>Shrek 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The hires come as Sunrise preps a new TV series set in the world of <em>Jungle Beat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Phil Cunningham said: \u201cWe are delighted to welcome Jennifer, Will, Robin and Eric to the team. They all join us with a wealth of experience in the children\u2019s sector and we\u2019ve already benefitted from their expertise. We have ambitious plans for growth over the next three years and these key appointments enable us to reach our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN: Sunrise Productions, creators of the award-winning animated series Jungle Beat, has made a number of new senior appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1204,1205],"class_list":["post-10032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-jungle-beat","tag-sunrise-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunrise Productions Expands Senior Teams - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunrise Productions Expands Senior Teams - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CAPE TOWN: Sunrise Productions, creators of the award-winning animated series Jungle Beat, has made a number of new senior appointments.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-06T13:57:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-05-06T18:17:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joel Marino\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joel Marino\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/\",\"name\":\"Sunrise Productions Expands Senior Teams - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-05-06T13:57:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-05-06T18:17:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/b3ccbe08162f6677585ed46386169b48\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sunrise-productions-expands-senior-teams\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sunrise Productions Expands Senior Teams\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/b3ccbe08162f6677585ed46386169b48\",\"name\":\"Joel Marino\",\"description\":\"Joel Marino is associate editor for World Screen and TV Latina. 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