Manchester Animation Festival

Jo is a Commissioning Executive for CBBC, focussing on Animated content. Her role is to assess submissions, develop projects and work as Executive Producer on commissions for the channel.

Jo has over 30 years of experience in the animation industry, her career beginning at Aardman Animations where she produced commercials, series such as ‘Angry Kid’ and ’Morph’ and short films, including the Bafta winning ‘The Pearce Sisters’ and Academy award nominated ‘Wat’s Pig’ before joining the BBC as Producer of the Bafta nominated pre-school series ‘Go Jetters’. In her current role Jo is BBC Executive Producer on the Emmy nominated children’s series ‘Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed’, ‘Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese’, Super Happy Magic Forest’ and the six half hour animated specials ’Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures’.