Catherine Winder

Catherine Winder is an American digital media producer and executive. She runs her own media consulting business focused on business strategy, market integration of new technologies, project development and production. Her clients have included Rovio Entertainment, Sprout, DisneyToon Studios, Illumination Entertainment, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. Television Animation, Laika, Skybound Entertainment, and XD Productions.

Previously, as president/executive producer of Rainmaker Entertainment, a public company, she oversaw all creative and production operations of the studio. Her responsibilities included the development of a slate of feature films, the creation of a shorts program and the production and delivery of ten DVDs for Mattel. Partnering with The Weinstein Company she produced the feature film, Escape from Planet Earth. For this film she came in midway and restructured the project, hired and managed all of the key creative talent in order to ensure its completion and delivery.

Taking the Star Wars franchise into CG animation, Winder acted as executive producer for Lucasfilm Animation for the division and George Lucas' producer on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the following television series of the same name. Writing the company's business plan and setting up their wholly owned studios in Singapore and Marin, she built and led a global team of over 200 artists and technical staff to develop and produce this content. As Senior Vice President, Production for 20th Century Fox Animation, working for Chris Meledandri, Winder was integrally involved in the transformation of Blue Sky Studios from a visual effects and commercial production house into a CG feature film studio. During her tenure at Fox, she was responsible for overseeing the production of Ice Age as well as completing Titan A.E. and ramping up Robots for production.

Prior to Fox, Winder co-founded an animation studio for HBO. As Vice President of HBO Animation, she produced the award-winning series Todd McFarlane's Spawn based on the original graphic novels as well as Ralph Bakshi's anthology series Spicy City. Before her stint at HBO, Winder garnered her first producing credit at Colossal Pictures, where she set up a unit to produce Æon Flux for MTV. Working at Hanna-Barbera, Winder oversaw all domestic and international production of made-for-TV films, television series and shorts for many international territories. Some of her credits during this tenure include the original animated pilots for Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and The Powerpuff Girls.

Winder co-authored the second edition of her industry handbook Producing Animation for Focal Press released in September 2011. She also wrote and produced the award winning short film Luna in 2011 (Winner California Shorts Festival, Spokane/SpIFF, Silicon Valley Festival, Metropolitan Festival of NYC) featured within the book as an interactive website and case study in animated film production featured on Rainmaker.com.

Winder is a native of Toronto, Canada and began her film career in Japan, which she later said helped her in adopting anime and manga elements into the unique Clone Wars animation style.[1]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Lupick, Travis. "Clone Wars proved a galactic task for production team." The Georgia Straight, August 21, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-08-21.

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