India s Discreet Arts Sets Steven Wendland as Head of U.S. Operations (EXCLUSIVE)
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Veteran animation executive Steven Wendland has been appointed as president of Discreet Arts USA, the newly-launched offshoot of Indian animation firm Discreet Arts. The new unit is based in Burbank, California.
He is expected to expand the company’s work-for-hire business while also developing a slate of original productions. These may be based on Discreet Arts’ existing IP and new properties.
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Until last year, Wendland was VP of animation and head of creative development at Technicolor’s L.A. office. Among the projects developed and produced under his guidance were Mark Drop and Jerry Leibowitz’s “Atomic Puppet,” Tom Taylor and James Brouwer’s “The Deep,” for which he earned Emmy- and BAFTA-nominations. He helped develop a line of “The Deep” toys with Simba Toys, and story-edited a series of four-chapter
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