Lion Forge Entertainment Adds Three Key Executives To Bolster Management Team
15.09.2023 - 16:57
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EXCLUSIVE: Lion Forge Entertainment is expanding the studio’s management team under President and Chief Content Officer Stephanie Sperber, with the addition of three key executives. Former Hello Sunshine exec and multi-award-winning executive producer Kirsten Newlands joins as Executive Vice President of Production and Content Partnerships; Emmy-nominated children’s media creative Koyalee Chanda serves as Senior Vice President of Animation; and seasoned kids distribution and sales executive Jonathan Abraham joins as Director of Distribution.
Newlands and Abraham will head up a Global Media Sales division to handle international sales and distribution for the company’s financed and owned IP. The new sales and distribution group will make its debut at MIPCOM / MIPJR next month where the company will be taking out the anticipated Nigerian anime-inspired series Iyanu, based on Roye Okupe’s graphic novel, and the new animated kid series BugTron. Abraham will lead the Global Media Sales division and report directly to Newlands.
Newlands, a Canadian Screen Award winner and multiple Emmy nominee, is overseeing all physical production, studio alliances, financing, co-productions and sales at Lion Forge Entertainment. She has executive produced more than 800 half hours of animated children’s television, including hits such as My Little Pony, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Carmen Sandiego, The Deep and Pikwik Pack.
Prior to joining Lion Forge, Newlands served as the VP, Kids Animation, Production at Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.For more than a decade, she led all animation production endeavors for WildBrain (DHX Media) as SVP, Animation Production.
“Producing engaging kids’ content is a lifelong passion of mine,” said
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