Daytime Emmy nominee and 5-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee Brandon Lane is an award-winning director, showrunner, screenwriter and producer. He currently works as Development Producer at legendary Canadian animation-house Nelvana, previously working as Production Executive for Teletoon, YTV, Treehouse and Adult Swim Canada. Over the past decade, Brandon has overseen the production of over 380 hours of content, collaborating with partners like Disney, Netflix, HBO, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, Hulu and Sony Pictures Animation. He currently showruns and directs the Youth Media Alliance Award of Excellence-winning preschool series Miss Persona, airing daily on Treehouse. Brandon co-created, wrote and directed the award-winning feature film Princess Sparkly Butt & The Hot Dog Kid for Teletoon. The film was adapted from an award-winning Toronto Fringe Festival play Brandon also wrote and directed. He is showrunner, director and co-creator of Space Dragon & Kim for Shaftesbury Kids and was co-showrunner on D.N. Ace for Teletoon. He is the creator and head writer of Bunker Buds, currently in development with CBC Kids through the CBC Creative Relief Fund.

A 22 year veteran of the animation industry, Barry’s work includes commercial and television animation, storyboards, animation supervision, and illustration for a variety of clients and studios including Brown Story, Guru, DHX, Nelvana, Snowball, Axyz and the National Film Board of Canada.

He founded the Toronto based animation lecture series Animatic T.O. in 2013, spent three years as the vice-president of the Toronto Animated Image Society and joined the board of the TAAFI animation festival in 2017.

A previous winner of TAC’s Pitch This competition and OIAF's Iron Developer contest, Barry has developed and continues to expand a slate of development-ready properties.

Janice Walker is an award winning producer that has been placed within the animation film and TV business for over 25 years. She is currently in the role of studio producer at Yowza! Animation. She is working on several animated series including Green Eggs and Ham and Angry Birds. In addition to producing & executive roles she has acted as post production VFX supervisor, head of animation production, studio manager, supervising producer, production manager for series & VP of production for feature and commercials. She brings a vast Experience with kids and family content working directly with domestic & International broadcasters, co-producers, satellite studios, International companies and talent world wide.

Look Mom! Productions discovered Stephen buried beneath the sands in the Valley of the Kings. Despite local tales of a curse they broke open his tomb and now they're stuck with him. As head of studio at Look Mom! Stephen brings 20 years of animation experience to the job of coordinating the in house artists and addressing the creative needs of any current productions. Stephen also helps to guide the creative output of the studio alongside the rest of the executive team.