Peter Lepeniotis is a Canadian animator, film director, screenwriter and producer. His prolific body of work includes the enormously successful film, The Nut Job, which Lepeniotis co-wrote and directed. Other films he has directed or animated include Casper, Gnome Alone, Toy Story 2, Disney’s Dinosaur, and Fantasia 2000.
Michael Samonek is a writer and director, best known for No Strings Attached (2011), Editing Is Everything (1999) and Table for Three (2009). Michael has donned the writer’s role for several animated series for Universal, Disney, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Starz, Alcon Entertainment, Funny-or-Die, and others.
Michael Schwartz is known for The Nut Job (2014), ABCs of Death 2.5 (2016) and Gnome Alone (2017).
Dean Wilkinson has been a comedy writer and scriptwriter for Kids TV, Animation, Games, Apps, Comics, and Books for over 30 years. He has written for Disney, Cbeebies, Nickelodeon, CITV, and Aardman among others. His best known works include SMTV Live Chums, Ant and Dec, and CBBC’s smash hit sketch show Stupid. He also writes on the console games LittleBigPlanet amongst many others. His writing has seen him pen scripts for the likes of Stephen fry, Hugh Laurie, Rik Mayall, John Cleese and Harry Hill to name but a few.
R.L. Stine is a writer and producer, known for Goosebumps (2015), Fear Street: Part One – 1994 (2021) and Fear Street: Part Three – 1666 (2021). He’s been scaring people all around the world for a lot of years. So far, he has sold over 400-million books and his books have been translated into 35 languages, making him one of the best-selling authors in history.