Kindle Entertainment gets new Head of Animation

02 June 2016 // Hot off the Press

Skwigly

Animation Magazine

BAFTA award-winning British production company Kindle Entertainment (www.kindleentertainment.co.uk) today announced the addition of a new member of its team. Animation producer and consultant Lindsay Watson will be joining the company as Head of Animation to develop four of the latest television properties on their kids’ slate.

Projects range from pre-school book properties including David Melling’s best selling and much loved, Hugless Douglas (Hachette), through to Ivy & Bean, a New York Times Best Seller, for 5-9 year olds by Annie Burrows (Chronicle Books). The slate has a focus on great comic storytelling, vibrant characters and distinctive role models. Ivy & Beanhas two high-spirited, imaginative girls at its heart to address the poverty of strong girl characters in the animation market.

Kindle Entertainment are best known in the animation landscape for TV series Dinopaws, which was co-produced with Laughing Gravy (UK) and Guru Studios in Toronto. The animated comedy for pre-schoolers features a trio of dinosaurs and won the award for Best Animation at the 20th International Shanghai TV Festival.