Leanne Preston Cortez
Development Executive, Moonbug Entertainment
With over 18 years’ experience in the kids and family entertainment business across Development, Production and Executive Leadership positions, Leanne Preston Cortez is currently Development Executive at Moonbug Entertainment based in Los Angeles and is responsible for developing content across Moonbug’s portfolio brands such as CoComelon, Blippi and Little Angel. Leanne was formerly Senior Producer at Triggerfish on Annie Award winning African Anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire for Disney+. Prior to Triggerfish, Leanne was CEO and Producer at Unanico Group. Throughout her career, Preston Cortez has worked for companies across the globe to develop and produce original content including: Nickelodeon, Gaumont, Axis, Toonmax Media, CCTV, Left Pocket Studio, Citizen Skull, Digitoonz and Red Kite Animation on successful series such as Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, Lego City Adventures, George of the Jungle, House of Anubis, Ella Bella Bingo and Emmy and GooRoo.
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Making Toons for the Preschool Set
2024 has been quite a fruitful year in the preschool animation landscape as several top-quality new shows have premiered on various streamers and cable and linear outlets. We’ll spotlight some of the show-runners behind these to understand how they created, developed and produced the shows, and to highlight some of the key steps you need to take to bring an inclusive, creative, inspiring and entertaining animated show to today’s preschool audiences and their parents.