Brenda Chapman started her career as a story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1987, where she worked on her favorite fairytales: The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast. She also worked on a few other non-fairytales and was the story supervisor on the original The Lion King for which she won an Annie. Chapman then helped launch DreamWorks Animation Studios, where she co-directed The Prince of Egypt. In 2003, Chapman joined Pixar Animation Studios where she created, wrote and directed Brave – inspired by her relationship with her daughter - and won an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. Chapman recently finished her first live-action film Come Away, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is due to be released November 13, 2020. Currently, Chapman is working on a novel, a memoir and a children’s book. 

Kevin Lima traces his fascination with animation to seeing Disney’s Jungle Book in 1967, when at the film’s end, he said to his mother, “I’m going to make that when I grow up.” Lima was true to his word and after graduating from the California Institute of the Arts worked on many of the films of the Disney’s renaissance including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin before taking the director’s chair on A Goofy Movie and Tarzan. In 2000, Kevin made his live-action feature film debut with 102 Dalmatians, then the TV movies Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime for which he won the Director’s Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs. His film, Enchanted was the joyous culmination of all of Lima’s filmmaking experiences in live-action and animation. Currently, Kevin is collaborating with his wife, Brenda Chapman, the Academy Award winning director of The Prince of Egypt and Brave, to form ‘Twas Entertainment.