Vice-president. cartoon italia

ALFIO BASTIANCICH

Alfio is one of the leading international experts in animation, as declared by Hollywood’s ‘Animation Magazine’.

Co-founder and president of the Italian branch of the ASIFA and a board member of the Cartoon-Media Programme, during the 1990s he contributed to define the strategies of the animation industry in Italy and Europe.

In 1995 he joined RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana setting up the first production activities in animation and children’s programmes and founding “Cartoons on the Bay”, making it one of the main world events in the field.

In 2015 he joined Showlab – Prodea Group as General Manager of Animation & Youth Programs. He is also vice president in charge of institutional relations of Cartoon Italia, the national Association of Animation Producers.

President. CARTOON ITALY

ANNE-SOPHIE VANHOLLEBEKE

Anne-Sophie started her career in 1995 as TV Line Producer for JRDBA Production based in Paris.

In 1999, Anne-Sophie joined Lanterna Magica, the major animation feature production company in Italy, based in Turin.

In 2003, she was appointed as expert for the evaluation of the animation movies submitted at Media Program (European Commission program).

Since 2009, she is producer of the animation TV series and feature films for Studio Campedelli – based in Milan.

In 2014 she’s appointed Member of the Board of Cartoon (European Association of Animation Film) and President of Cartoon Italia, the Italian Animation Producers’ Association.

From 2017 to 2019, she was Vice President of Animation Europe (the federation of European Animation Producer Association).

Head of Audiovisual Area Management. ICEC

BLANCA PIULATS

A law graduate, she began her career at the Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises (ICEC) in 2005 as a subsidy management technician, becoming head of the department in 2008 and subsequently head of the Exhibition, Rating and REAC Unit. She is currently the Head of Management of the Audiovisual Area of the ICEC.

3D generalist, Unreal technician, Pixotope certified instructor. TANGRAM SOLUTIONS

CARLOS HÜGLI

Carlos Hügli, 3d Generalist, Unreal Technician and Pixotope certified instructor, develops his career working at Tangram Solutions working in Tangram Solutions for AR and XR projects, where he has has participated with companies such as HP, Ford, Telemadrid, TVE among others.

Coordinator of Audiovisual Policy. AGADIC

DOLORES MEIJOMIN

Since 1994 she has worked in different departments of the Xunta de Galicia. Her first contact with the audiovisual field took place in 2010 at the Galician Audiovisual Consortium, where she developed the plan for the internationalisation of Galician Audiovisual in European and Latin American markets and festivals under the brand Films from Galicia.

In July 2013 she was appointed coordinator of Audiovisual Policy at the Galician Agency for Cultural Industries (Agadic), a department that promotes and manages public policies related to subsidies and carries out training, promotion and dissemination programmes in the audiovisual field.

Deputy director of content & Responsible for children's content. À PUNT MEDIA

ERNEST J. SORRENTINO

Deputy director of content at À Punt Media. Responsible for children’s content on Valencian regional television. Director and scriptwriter with more than 20 years of experience. Golden Dolphin at Cannes with the documentary ‘The Architect of New York’. Max Award for Best Musical Show with ‘L’aneguet lleig’

Design Director & CEO. PIXELATTO

JAVI CEPA

Javier Cepa (@JaviCepa) is CEO and creative director at Pixelatto, a creative studio based in Málaga. He is mainly known for being responsible for the award-winning video game Reventure, its board game adaptation “Reventure: Orbtale” and several tools for creative professionals including Tabletop Creator and Card Creator. He was also a founding member of MálagaJam, the local association of videogame creators in Málaga and deputy director of the Master’s Degree in Videogames at the University of Málaga.

Commercial Director. SIMBA DICKIE GROUP

JAVIER MARTIN

Graduate in Law and Business Management from the University of Alcalá. After starting his professional activity in the financial world, he has been linked to the toy sector since 2010 with Simba Dickie Group starting his activity as Key Account Manager for one of the brands and is currently Commercial Director of the group for Spain and Portugal since 2015.

Publisher. SELECTA VISIÓN

JAVIER PUERTAS

After working in the audiovisual world for more than 20 years, where he has been responsible for major releases in cinema, DVD and BD such as DragonBall Super Broly, your name, Caballeros del Zodíaco or A 47 metros, Javi Puertas is, since its recent creation, in charge of managing SelectaVisión’s publishing and distribution label, SELECTAPLAY.

SelectaPlay, which in its first years of life has already made great releases such as Blasphemous, SNK Fighting Legends or Aeterna Noctis, continues to grow as a European publisher to consolidate a bright future full of great games for the whole of Europe.

Global Sales & Marketing Director. MAGIC BOX

JOSE VICENTE SAVALL GREGORI

International Marketing and Sales Director at Magicbox since 2021, responsible for the globalisation of the Company. He has developed his career over 28 years in Hasbro Inc. (North American multinational leader in the toy sector) where he has held different positions from Brand Manager to Regional General Manager overseeing the business of different countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa (more than 27 countries). He is an expert in Marketing and Sales in the toy sector. He studied Industrial Engineering at the UPV, Master in Marketing and Sales at ESIC and training in High Performance Teams at Hasbro University and Tuck University at Darmouth.

Co-Founder. ZUMBAKAMERA FILMS & FLIPBOKU

JOSSIE MALIS

Jossie Malis is a director, scriptwriter, animator and designer of duplicate origin (Peru-Chile). Since 2006 he has run his studio Zumbakamera, sending signals abroad from the island of Mallorca. With a special passion for an imaginary that incorporates machines and the cosmos, he dedicates his time to the direction and production of short films, video clips or series such as the multi-award winning “Bendito Machine”. His short films have been selected for festivals around the world such as Annecy, Sitges, Cinanima, BAF, Pictoplasma, SICAF and Fantastic Fest, among others.

He is currently working on the production of his next short film Miss Universe, an animated short film in co-production with France, as well as the creative direction of Flipboku, an editorial project that integrates the audiovisual format with optical illusion and design, radically reinventing the classic flipbook format.

Co-founder. NIVEL OCULTO

JUAN MANUEL MORENO

Co-creator of Nivel Oculto, a reference website in Spanish about independent videogame development. He combines his professional activity of web consulting with the cultural promotion of videogames through lectures at universities and private entities, collaborating in several books about the sector and participating in the creation of different events such as Indie[MAD], with four editions in Madrid, Valencia and Malaga or Bitsommar, where the videogame merges with the rural environment.

Co-founder. ZUMBAKAMERA FILMS & FLIPBOKU

JULIE REIER

Julie Reier is a film music composer and co-founder of the animation studio Zumbakamera and the publishing house Flipboku. She has composed music for a wide variety of audiovisual projects, including the award-winning animated series Bendito Machine, which has won awards at multiple international festivals. He has won the Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Music in Advertising and his latest works include Brossa A Cappel A (Videomapping La Mercè, Barcelona), the feature documentary Aquesta és la nostra guerra! and the short films Background, Dona and Impossible Decirte Adiós.

CMO FAMOSA (GRUPO GIOCHI PREZIOSI)

MARÍA COSTA

PhD in Pedagogy and Degree in Market Research. She headed the R&D department at AIJU (Technological Institute of Children’s Products and Leisure) from 1992 to 2020. She has more than 30 years of experience in the toy, children’s product and entertainment sectors. He has coordinated European and national projects. She has participated in multiple international congresses as an expert on children and families as consumers. She has published articles, posts and books on social changes, children’s preferences, trends in games and toys, usability, diversity and inclusion, foresight and innovation, etc. He was part of the International Trend Committee of Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg, from 2014 to 2020. Since 2021 he has been CMO of Famosa, focusing on the development and innovation of the company’s brands and the group, including Trotties, Magic World Adventures, whose series has recently premiered on Clan.

Executive Producer. Department of children's programmes and animation co-productions. TV3

MUNTSA TARRÉS

With a degree in Information Sciences from the UAB, she has been an associate lecturer on the Audiovisual Communication degree at the University of Barcelona since 2015.

At TV3 she has held different positions, as an editor in the News Services, producer of the programmes “30 Minuts” and “60 Minuts”, executive producer of the documentary department, producer of La Marató and executive producer of the new formats department.

Since 2021 she has been executive producer of the department of children’s programmes and animation co-productions at TV3.

Director. Espacio Turístico, RRHH and Tenerife Film Commission.

Ricardo Martínez

Game development & 3D animationFREELANCE

ROCIO TOMÉ

Rocío ‘Rothio’ Tomé is a self-taught programmer who has worked for more than 5 years as a video game developer.

Graduated in psychology and specialized in clinical practice, she has participated in the design and development of several projects, mainly serious games focused on the health market.

She has also published several projects as a solo developer such as StreamINK, a collaborative interactive fiction game for streaming platforms, and mk creature.zip, an award-winning puzzle game.

After her adventure working at Unity in the UK, she has returned to Spain to focus on live streaming on Twitch, where she develops video games using the platform itself for interaction.

Ilustrator. FREELANCE

SENSEIDANI

A lover of the Japanese language and culture, highly influenced by cinema and video games, he studied Fine Arts and Illustration at the Joso school in Barcelona.

It has four manga volumes published in Norma Editorial and an imminent premiere in Planeta Manga this winter, which it performs live on Twitch, in addition to combining it with illustration and animation commissions.

Storyboarder. FREELANCE

VICTOR SANTOS

Creator of graphic novels such as Filthy Rich, Rashomon, Bad Girls, Against Hope and Violent Love and nominated for the Eisner and Harvey awards. His work has been published in the USA, Europe, and recently in China and Japan. He has collaborated with companies such as Netflix, Fnac, Porsche, the gaming company Corvus Belli and artists such as Deadmau5.

His Polar quadrilogy, published by Dark Horse, has been adapted as a Netflix original production with Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens and he is currently working on new and different projects of his own creation for media such as comics, TV and film.

Director of Children's Contents Area and Clan channel. RTVE

YAGO FANDIÑO

Yago Fandiño is the director of RTVE’s Children’s Contents Area and Clan channel. He previously held the post of Deputy Director of Children’s Content and Interactive Media at RTVE.

With more than 20 international co-productions to his credit, his work has been recognised with different awards, such as the Iris awards from the Television Academy for the best children’s programme 2019, 2020 and 2021 for ‘Lunnis de Leyenda’, ‘Aprendemos en Casa’ and ‘Aprendemos en Clan’, the ‘Debate’ and the award for the best children’s programme at the New York Festival for the special episode of ‘Lunnis de Leyenda’ at the Prado Museum.

He is a member of the EBU’s team of Experts in Children’s Content and as a result of the ‘Aprendemos en Clan’ project, he has taken part in numerous meetings and seminars on the new role of Educational Television.