Jonas Diamond
Executive Producer, Smiley Guy Studios
Jonas Diamond is the Executive Producer of Smiley Guy Studios and CEO of iThentic. For over 20 years, Jonas has been instrumental in growing the company’s production business and arranging financing for its many original properties. Jonas’ Producer credits include: Odd Job Jack, Space Riders, Corner Gas: The Movie - Digital, Corner Gas Animated for Bell Media; Pillars of Freedom, Canada Crew Interactive, Finding Stuff Out Online and Cutie Pugs for TVO; Turbo Dogs, Chirp, A Christmas Carol, Save Me and The Curse of Clara for CBC; Sons of Butcher, The Dating Guy, Skatoony, and GeoFreakZ for Teletoon; Dad Drives and Operation Unplugged Digital for Blue Ant; Überdude and Teleporting Fat Guy for Smosh; Hatchimals for Spinmaster; One Day at a Time animated for Sony / Viacom and Black-ish animated for ABC; Warren United, Wussywat and the feature SOS: SAVE OUR SKINS with Baby Cow; features Everyday Is Like Sunday and Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End; and the Emmy/Rockie/Digi/Canadian Screen Award winning GUIDESTONES. Jonas has been a board member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & TV since 2011.
6:45PM - 7:45PM
The Sitcom Gets Animated
In these Co-vid times, two sitcoms (One Day At A TIme, black-ish) chose the animation route in order to deliver powerful episodes about voting and the upcoming US Election. Join our panelists from Big Jump Entertainment, Smiley Guy as well as director Mathias Horager and Producer of black-ish, Tom Ragazzo as they talk about going the animated route and the future of animation in primetime.
