Speaker Catherine Winder
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Catherine is the CEO, Executive Producer and Founder of Wind Sun Sky Entertainment. With an unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of digital media, she pioneers innovative entertainment experiences at the convergence of storytelling and technology, crafting compelling multi-platform narratives across broadcasting, YouTube, gaming, theatrical and more.
As co-creator of Future Chicken, she leads a ground-breaking award-winning multi-platform digital universe empowering children to address climate concerns. She also created Camp Bonkers, another multi-platform property encompassing a Roblox game, app and variety show with a soon-to-be-released new YouTube series. Through a strategic relationship with leading creator economy company Viral Nation, she is collaborating on multi-platform content expressions with YouTube sensations, Like Nastya (fifth biggest YT star in the world) and beloved The McCarty Family (500 million monthly YT views).
Leveraging game engine technologies, she produced the first-ever live interactive animated event series, My Singing Monsters Fandemonium, based on the musical mobile game where animated characters could engage with the audience in real time. A pioneer in the Roblox space, she adapted Twilight Daycare (two billion-plus plays) into an innovative award-winning first-of-its-kind scripted series animated and distributed within Roblox. She also collaborates with top Roblox creators such as the platform’s wildly successful game Jailbreak (seven billion-plus plays) and Creatures of Sonaria (900 million-plus plays), adapting these fan-favorite worlds into gamified story universes that include series, feature content as well as producing multiple immersive experiences.
Catherine served as Executive Producer of the adult comedy animated series Psi Cops for Adult Swim. Notably, she adapted the Invincible comic book into a hit animated series for Amazon Prime and continues to act as Executive Producer. She also transformed the graphic novel Super Dinosaur into an animated series, toy line and game. Catherine's involvement also extended to the global phenomenon The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel, having adapted the popular game for the big screen. As former President and Executive Producer of Rainmaker Entertainment, she produced Escape from Planet Earth.
Other influential roles include Executive Producer for Lucasfilm Animation, working directly for George Lucas, adapting, developing and producing Star Wars: The Clone Wars. As Senior Vice President at Fox Feature Animation, she oversaw the establishment of Blue Sky Studios and the Oscar-nominated film Ice Age. Catherine also served as Vice President at HBO Original Programming and is Co-Author of the industry handbook Producing Animation.
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