SEBASTIAN
DEBERTIN
Head of International Content, Acquisitions & Co-Productions at KiKA – The Children’s Channel of ARD & ZDF. Sebastian helped to create and launch KiKA, Germany’s public kids content provider 25 years ago. He looks for both, Fiction and Non-Fiction projects/programs for KiKA and its platforms across all genres from all international sources. Sebastian has been key in acquiring, creating, producing and co-producing major brands and super hit programs for the KiKA-world, including “Yakari”, “Fireman Sam”, “Guess how much I love you”, “Chloés Closet”, “Franklin”, “Carebears”, “Lily’s Driftwood Bay”, “Insectibles”, “Animanimals”, “Tib+Tumtum”, “Jakers!”, “Esme & Roy”, “Super Wings” and many more. His current animation projects are for e.g. the Emmy-nominated special “The Lost Letter” with Lupus Films and Dream Logic, “Dog Loves Books” with -iGeneration Studios (aka Komixx-Entertainment) and the BBC, “The Smurfs” with IMPS-Peyo Prod., “Dupuis” with TF1, “Odo” with Sixteen South and Letko, and “Mumfie” with Zodiak Kids and Animoka alongside France Télévisions and RAI. Sebastian has won several national and international awards, including an Emmy and was honored recently with the 1st “TV Kids Pioneer Award”.