Barnabas Wornoff

Barnabas Wornoff is an independent director, animator and professor of animation. His animation credits include Teletoon's "Total Drama Island," Disney XD’s "Jimmy Two Shoes," "Danny Phantom," Nickelodeon's "Wow Wow Wubbzy," Teletoon’s "The Dating Guy" and Comedy Network’s "HOTBOX."  He produced a satirical animated feature about Dean Del Mastro VS the musicians and artists of Peterborough called "Peterborough Time.” Further television credits include writing and animating the opening for CTV’s Lost in Canada and 4 episodes of his own sketch comedy and animated series called "The Super Popular Show" which placed at the Banff Television’s Audience Choice Awards. Barnabas is currently animating at 9 Story in Harmony on “Wild Kratts.”

Helen Lebeau

Helen Lebeau is fully immersed in the kids and family entertainment business in her role as Vice President of Production at Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Studio where she oversees all animation and production operations for Corus’ 24 specialty television networks. Nelvana’s content is seen in over 150 countries and has received over 70 major international entertainment awards including Emmys® and Geminis. 

Helen joined Nelvana in 2002 to run its post-production group, focusing on servicing the animation slate and building the digital post facility to leverage creative and technical efficiencies. In 2006 she became Vice President, Broadcast Operations where she was responsible for the overall technical operation of network and production operations at Corus. As part of the Executive Management team in 2007, Helen took on a leadership role supporting the implementation of Corus Quay, the company’s new headquarters in Toronto’s East Bayfront district.   Now, as head of Production Animation Operations, Helen continues to create quality content, leveraging top talent and the overall investment in Corus Quay. Helen is a graduate of the Media Arts Program at Sheridan College and is a Sheridan Alumni Board member.

Mike Weiss

Mike Weiss has directed and produced several short animated films that have been screened in festivals worldwide. His professional experience includes stop-motion animation, having animated several TV shows, commercials and many independent productions. In 2009, Mike co-founded a Toronto-based animation festival called Naked Frames which focuses on promoting independent animation and music videos. Mike teaches workshops on independent stop-motion filmmaking and puppet building through the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS). He is a graduate of Sheridan College’s Classical Animation program (2002).

Mark Jones, M.A.

An award-winning 20-year veteran of the new media field, Mark Jones has worked as an educator, producer, artist, and writer. Having worked at Pearson Education for ten years, he then went on to form his own company, CyberStage Communications, which began as the publisher of the first consumer arts magazine that examined the intersection between art and technology. Since then, he has worked for a wide variety of clients on groundbreaking projects, including for Gottschalk + Ash International, The Toronto International Film Festival, eyeon Software, The Learning Partnership, Vera Frenkel, and others. From 2000-2004, he was Executive Director of OnTarget, an Ontario-wide initiative providing career development and education support programs for the digital technologies industries. He has been on numerous committees and boards, including those for The McLuhan Multimedia Festival, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, SIGGRAPH, and Pixel Gallery. In 2002, he was awarded the ITAC Community IT Hero of the Year Award, the Canadian New Media Award as Industry Advocate of the Year. Today, he serves as Chair of the School of Creative Arts and Animation at Seneca College, overseeing programs in animation, new media, graphic design, photography, and broadcasting. He holds an M.A. in Communication and Culture from Ryerson and York Universities.

Guillaume Lagourgue

Rich Duhaney

A director at Smiley Guy Studios in Toronto, Rich has applied his varied creative talents as Production Designer, Stop-motion Animator, Digital 2D animator, Animation Director. 10 years in the industry and dozens of shows and shorts later, Rich's credits include Disney's "JoJo's Circus", Teletoon's "The Dating Guy" and ShutUp Cartoons "Teleporting Fat Guy". Rich graduated from Sheridan College's Classical Animation Program in 2002.