Rose-Ann Tisserand is the Founder and Executive Producer of Women in Animation Vancouver’s National Animation Career EXCELerator Program (ACE). ACE’s mission is to advance mid-career women into 8 key creative roles while making a short film and telling their authentic stories. The ACE program has been a passion project for Rose-Ann for over 6 years, successfully completing 3 award-winning short films and advancing 19 women from across Canada in the roles of Writer, Producer, Director, Art Director, Animation Director, Story Supervisor, Editor and Composer.

Rose-Ann is also Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Flying Kraken Creative Studios, a boutique studio that creates original animation content and specializes in award-winning animation design services.

Rose-Ann has worked as a production executive for 23 years in film and television production. She was a supervising producer at Bardel Entertainment and a consulting creative producer with the National Film Board of Canada on Zeb’s Spider. She is currently Executive Producer/Co-Creator of a series in development with Sony Entertainment.

Rose-Ann has been active in the animation industry and women-led initiatives for over 10 years, including sitting on the Spark Animation Leadership Board, Chair of Drawn Together Vancouver, and Executive Advisor and Co-Chair on the WIA Vancouver Board.

Team Stewart Entertainment is a creative incubator based in Vancouver, Canada intent on creating superior content for kids, with a focus on 3D and 2D animated programs for children aged 3 to 11. Comprised of the talented husband and wife team of Scott and Julie Stewart, the pair began their entrepreneurial careers in 2001 when they created Gecko Kids, a creative computer school. That was later followed by Speakeasy FX, an animation studio working in advertising, producing many award-winning spots for clients such as Pepsi, American Express, FedEx, ESPN, and GE, just to name a few.

In 2008-2010, they expanded their animation studio in New Jersey, where they employed over 50 artists, to produced 2 seasons of Sesame Workshop’s series, Abby’s Flying Fairy School. The show won two Emmys and two Kidscreen Awards and in 2012, Scott and Julie became full-time content creators and show runners, starting with the girl-empowering series Kate & Mim-Mim for Fremantle Kids & Media and Disney Jr.

Team Stewart Entertainment now has eight original series in various aspects of production and development including Rev & Roll, currently in production at WildBrain, Zoo Crew currently in development with Kickstart, and Mazie in development with Nelvana.

In addition to creating and showrunning their own content, Scott and Julie also seek out quality properties that are in need of being creatively re-envisioned or adapted from another medium. Some of their partners include: Nickelodeon, eOne/Disney EMEA, Mercury Filmworks, WildBrain, Guru, Ferly Co, TeamTo, Jakks Toys, Aurora Toys, Alpha Toys, and Cyber Group.