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• Top kids content investors will be in the house at AAS

  BBC Children’s Sarah Muller Head of Acquisitions & Animation	CAKE Entertainment Ed Galton CCO & Managing Director	Disney Channels Southeast Asia Carlene Tan Senior Manager, Animation Development	Disney Junior Kim Berglund Executive Director, Development

  Entertainment One Olivier Dumont President, Family & Brands	Netflix Aram Yacoubian Content Director, Kids & Family International Originals	Nickelodeon International Chris Rose VP, International Animation Production & Development	Turner Broadcasting Southeast Asia Leslie Lee VP, Kids APAC

  
  

  Why is everyone coming? Because the Asian Animation Summit is the best place to discover new animation projects and companies from the region. Roughly 50% of the projects that debuted at AAS have gone into production, including such well-known series as Bluey (2016), Balloon Barnyard (2014), Kuu Kuu Harajuku (2013), Bottersnikes & Gumbles (2012) and Wonderballs (2012).

  You should be there, too! Sign up now and get ready to spend three days attending presentations of brand-new children’s TV series concepts from South Korea, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand. And with plenty of time built into the schedule for meetings and casual networking, it couldn’t be easier to follow up immediately on projects of interest and connect with new potential partners. REGISTER TODAY!

• AAS 2016 “Best in Show” winner Bluey gets second-season greenlight

  Brisbane, Australia-based Ludo Studio’s preschool hit Bluey—which made its market debut and was named “Best in Show” at AAS 2016—has been greenlit for a second 52 x seven-minute season by ABC Children’s and BBC Studios. Production will start in May 2019, for a 2020 launch in Australia on ABS KIDS and ABC KIDS iview.

  “The second season of Bluey will allow Ludo to continue to grow its animation studio, create 40 jobs in Queensland and inject close to AUS$6 million into the local economy,” says Queensland Premiere Annastacia Palaszczuk.

  Leading the charge on Bluey’s second season is showrunner/creator Joe Brumm (Charlie and Lola); exec producers Charlie Aspinwall and Daley Pearson (Ludo), Libbie Doherty (ABC Children’s) and Henrietta Hurford-Jones (BBC Studios); producer Sam Moor (CBeebies); and supervising director Richard Jeffrey (Tinga Tinga Tales).

  

• NEW THIS YEAR! AAS introduces its Co-Development Initiative

  To help earlier-stage projects take their next creative steps more successfully, we are planning to kick off day one and day two at the event with a curated series of short presentations of projects looking for like-minded development partners in the region.

• Sign up before Aug 30 & save $200

  We are offering a $795 Early-Bird rate on registrations for this year’s Asian Animation Summit. Sign up to attend our three-day showcase of the region’s strongest animation concepts in development by Friday, August 30 and you’ll save $200. REGISTER NOW!

• AAS 2019 dates and location announced

  We are extremely pleased to announce that the eighth-annual Asian Animation Summit will take place in Seoul, South Korea this year from November 20 to 22.

  Make plans to join us in this modern, cosmopolitan capital city that’s the heart and soul of Korean culture and entertainment, and get ready to discover Asia-Pacific’s best new TV animation concepts first. Online registration is now open!