{"id":19059,"date":"2020-08-25T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/genius-brands-taps-new-vp-international-distribution\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:55:25","slug":"genius-brands-taps-new-vp-of-international-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/genius-brands-taps-new-vp-of-international-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius Brands Taps New VP of International Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genius Brands International has brought in former Corus Entertainment sales executive Jessica Brinder as its new VP of international distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Brinder will oversee global content sales from Genius Brands\u2019 catalog of children\u2019s programming, including the flagship properties <em>Rainbow Rangers<\/em> and <em>Llama Llama<\/em>, along with the upcoming <em>Stan Lee\u2019s Superhero Kindergarten<\/em>, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and new content produced under the recently announced Stan Lee Universe banner.<\/p>\n<p>Brinder joins Genius Brands from Kickstart Entertainment in Canada, where she served as VP of business development. She previously worked for over five years for Corus Entertainment, most recently as a senior sales manager of global distribution at Nelvana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting time to be at Genius Brands as we continue to build our content portfolio, and I welcome Jessica to our team to help drive our content sales efforts around the world,\u201d said Genius Brands\u2019 chairman and CEO, Andy Heyward. \u201cWe now have 100 percent distribution of the <em>Rainbow Rangers<\/em> series in the Western Hemisphere and are expanding further internationally, as well as further product rollouts this year; our <em>Llama Llama<\/em> Netflix Original series is in season two with product on the shelf; we have forged a new and important partnership with Alibaba group on our forthcoming <em>Stan Lee\u2019s Superhero Kindergarten<\/em>, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; and we have created the Stan Lee Universe banner which will be generating a lot of new content over the next few years!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to work with Andy and the team at Genius Brands as we continue producing \u2018content with a purpose\u2019 for global distribution,\u201d stated Brinder. \u201cWe have a diverse catalog of enriching and entertaining programming with new original content coming down the pipeline, and I look forward to working with our broadcast and platform partners worldwide to bring our unique offerings to young audiences around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genius Brands International has brought in former Corus Entertainment sales executive Jessica Brinder as its new VP of international distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":19060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1503],"class_list":["post-19059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-genius-brands-international","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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