KENNETH  
LADEKJÆR

Co-founder and co-owner of the animation studio Sun Creature Located in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark where he co-directed his bachelor short film “The Reward” which became a viral hit online and spawned an entire web series partly funded via crowd- and public funding. He has since then worked as a storyboarder on a few successful shows such as “Gumball” and “Ivandoe”, and directed several commercials for Riot games. On the documentary animated film “Flee”, winner of the European Documentary and European Animated Feature Film at the European Film Awards (EFA), he was the animation director and lead storyboarder, working closely with the director and the art-director of the film.

MAGDIELA
HERMIDA DUHAMEL

Animation Producer with animation & live action production experience from page to post. Her career spans various studios (FX Networks, FOX, DreamWorks Animation, Warner Brothers Animation) and projects such as Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, Marvel Studios’ first animated series What If…? and Nickelodeon’s first Mexican-American show The Casagrandes. Magdiela champions and advocates for diversity both in front and behind the camera. In 2018, Magdiela founded LatinX in Animation (LXiA), a signature program under the Latino Film Institute, to build a community for Latinx professionals that work in different roles throughout animation, VFX, and gaming. She currently serves as LXiA’s Co-Director.

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”.