Pitch THIS!

Congratulations to the creators of The Hare of High Park, Tarun Padmakumar and Joanna Fishbein, who won the Grand Prize for Pitch THIS! 2024

And a special mention to Pitch This! Runner-up Nick MacDonald who pitched Phil Joins a Cult.

Andy Coyle

Producer, Director – Mercury Filmworks

Award-winning Canadian Animator, Director, Writer, and Producer known for the TV series’ “Hilda”, “Atomic Puppet”, and the feature film “Hilda and the Mountain King”. In 2022 he released an independent animated horror anthology project titled “Don’t Walk Home Alone After Dark” which has garnered a notable following.

Dianna Lau

Content Producer, Consultant

Dianna Lau is a content executive with 12 years of experience producing award-winning kids, family and YA content at Apple TV+, Amazon Studios and Nickelodeon. Having worked across various formats (series/specials) and mediums (animation/live action), she’s passionate about developing and producing innovative, meaningful, inclusive content with four quadrant, global appeal. Working at Apple TV+ and Amazon Studios, she’s had the pleasure of working with studios, production companies and producers all over the world to create such content.  A few of her credits include: The Velveteen Rabbit, Snoopy Presents: Franklin and Marcie, Shape Island, Best Foot Forward, Lovely Little Farm, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, An American Girl Story: Melody and Dino Dana.

Pete Oswald

NYT Bestselling Illustrator/Production Designer – Sony

Pete Oswald is a #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator and production designer, best known for The Angry Birds Movie film series and ParaNorman. He is also known for his work as a children’s book author, illustrator, and painter. Pete’s work includes the #1 New York Times bestselling picture book, The Good Egg, and the #2 New York Times bestselling picture book, The Bad Seed, both part of the Food Group series written by Jory John. He also served as production designer on 2024’s The Garfield Movie. Oswald spent over four years on the project, taking inspiration from Jim Davis’ Garfield comic strips of the 1980s in creating new CG versions of Davis’ iconic characters.

Archita Ghosh​

President – Rezolution Pictures

Based in Montreal, Rezolution Pictures President Archita Ghosh has been working as an executive in media and entertainment for over a decade. In her previous role as Executive Producer and Co-founder of the animation studio E.D. FILMS, she directed the studio’s substantial growth and worked on its numerous award-winning animated projects.
At Indigenous documentary and television production studio Rezolution Pictures, Archita is now focused on supporting culturally-centred stories and launching its animation division. With Rezolution’s 20+ year history of telling important Indigenous stories including TV drama series “Little Bird” and “Mohawk Girls”, feature documentaries “Rumble” and “Red Fever” and TV documentary series “Indian and Aliens”, “Lands Enchanted”, and “The Last Lands”, she is guiding the company into its next phase as a market-driven, global, sustainable business to ensure its legacy for future generations of Indigenous creatives and professionals.
Archita has been on the board of the Canadian Media Producers Association since 2020 and contributes actively to creative industries internationally. She works in English, French, Spanish, and Bengali.