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Vanisha Sumboo
Freelancer
Vanisha is a freelancer in children’s TV with experience in production and script. She is an avid storyteller and is currently creating her first children’s picture book series. Her interests include yoga, HIIT workouts, travelling and creative writing. It will be her first time attending CMC as a blogger.
Vanisha's Sessions
Report - The Animation Skills Fund – Use it or Lose it
New initiatives from the re-booted ScreenSkills Animation Skills Council will address animation skill shortages. Animation recruiters were invited to have their say on the priorities and approaches. Takeaway: How best to use the fund is open for discussion and the panel welcomed input and opinion on this. While it can…
Report – Successful Pitches – The Secret History
Tim Patterson from T1M Consult introduced the panel and invited them to share their experience with pitching and their tips on what it takes to make a pitch successful. A strong recurring theme throughout the session was tenacity. Takeaway: Keep it simple: have a sense of humour and be tenacious!…
Report - Delivery Demands
Technical standards and delivery demands have undergone vast changes in recent years. Content is commissioned by the platform giants and viewed by the consumer in very different ways than how it used to be. Nowadays, the process has much shorter timelines, higher production costs, and more delivery formats - meaning…
Report – Research 7 & 8
Research 7 & 8 put representations of gender, family and friendships under the lens across two research panels. Takeaway: Male representation is dominant - both on screen and off screen. Gender imbalance continues to be an issue that needs to be addressed. Young people rate their families highly but become…
