CHRISTY DENA, MAYA GOETZ, GARY GOLDMAN, NICOLE KEEB e DIANA MANSON. These are the names of highest international profile of the Jury of Cartoons on the Bay 2010. They will be in charge of assigning the Prestigious Pulcinella Award  for the competing categories, for which the submissions are already open. “I have picked the most shining stars of Television and Multimedia Animation – says Roberto Genovesi, Artistic Director of the Festival – capable to judge the quality of the products also from a new and suggestive perspective, able to join together the sensibility of traditional scenarios with the suggestions of the future ones, in which the cartoon is called to compete”.

CHRISTY DENA, Director of “Universe Creation 101”, CHRISTY DENA has held the keynote speech at “Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival” and the first international conference on Cross -Media Interaction Design. Co-author of Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living for the Australian Literature Board, she is about to conclude her Ph.D on Trans-media fiction.

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MAYA GOETZ, Ph.D, is the director of the foundation “Prix Jeunesse”, and of the International Central Institute for Educational and Kids’ Television (IZI) at Bayerischer Rundfunk of Munich. Among her publications: Media and the make-believe worlds of children - When Harry Potter meets Pokémon in Disneyland e The TV-heroes of girls and boys, upcoming in 2010.

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GARY GOLDMAN, member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1976, has founded, with Don Bluth and John Pomeroy, “Don Bluth Productions” in 1979. In 1994, always with Bluth, has created “Fox Animation Studios”. He has produced and co-directed: Anastasia (1997), Bartok the Magnificent (1999) and Titan AE (2000). Aswell as The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988) and successful videogames, like Dragon’s Lair (1983), Dragon’s Lair I Warp (1989)e Dragon’s Lair III (2004).

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NICOLE KEEB has worked for WDR (Show with the Mouse)and SAT 1, the first private Tv channel in Germany. For Premiere (the main pay tv channel in Germany) has directed the “Kids” section. Having joined ZDF as commissioning editor for acquisistions and co-productions, she is currently responsible for international co-productions, development and acquisitions of the same department.

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DIANA MANSON. Founder of “ABC Records”, she has bee consultant for Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony Music and worked for BMG International. In 1998 she has founded “Silver Lining Productions”. In 2002 she has been executive producer of Beatrix Potter’s Nursery Rhymes, Timothy Goes to School (PBS), Max & Ruby (Nick Jnr) and co-producer of Dr. Dog (TF1 and ZDF). Since 2005, with “Chorion”, she moulds properties, like Ian Falconer’s Olivia, the new series of Mr. Men and Noddy in Toyland.

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