Author/producer/director Latoya Raveneau — one in every of Animation Journal‘s 2022 Rising Stars of Animation — has entered into an total deal at Disney to develop and produce animated initiatives with preeminent animation studios Disney Tv Animation and twentieth Tv Animation and contains phrases for live-action content material growth. The announcement was made by Ayo Davis, president, Disney Branded Tv.
“We’re all delighted that Latoya selected Disney to be her inventive dwelling, and we’re trying ahead to much more of her distinctive and impressed storytelling expertise and a long-lasting relationship along with her,” Davis mentioned.
By way of this wide-ranging settlement, Raveneau is growing a pilot at Disney Tv Animation, below the management of Meredith Roberts, SVP/Common Supervisor, Tv Animation, Disney Branded Tv. DBT produces animated children and household hits The Proud Household: Louder and Prouder, Monsters at Work, Alice’s Wonderland Bakery, Huge Metropolis Greens, Marvel’s Spidey and His Wonderful Pals, Mickey Mouse Funhouse, The Ghost and Molly McGee, The Owl Home, Amphibia, Minnie’s Bow-Toons and the upcoming Cousins, Marvel’s Moon Lady and Satan Dinosaur and Firebuds.
“Latoya is a uncommon and uniquely proficient one that elevates every part she touches, and her inventive sensibilities span tales for preschool, children, households and adults,” mentioned Roberts. “She’s probably the most pure, proficient storytellers I’ve ever encountered, and we’re proud to be supporting her imaginative and prescient.”
Raveneau may also develop initiatives for twentieth Tv Animation below the management of Marci Proietto, the studio’s Govt Vice President. twentieth Tv Animation is dwelling to fan-favorite grownup animation, together with The Simpsons, Household Man, Bob’s Burgers, American Dad! and Photo voltaic Opposites.
Latoya Raveneau is at present directing Disney Tv Animation’s newly debuted sequence The Proud Household: Louder and Prouder on Disney+ and is government producer with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter (The Roots) of the just lately debuted animated shorts Rise Up, Sing Out on Disney+, Disney Channel and Disney Junior. She was additionally screenwriter on Disney Junior’s upcoming musical sequence Eureka!
Devoted to illustration and mentorship, Raveneau is featured in a Disney Channel Reimagine Tomorrow interstitial, a dialog about position fashions with Yolanda Renee King, teen human rights activist and granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. The phase was directed by B. Monet.
Raveneau started her skilled profession as a manufacturing assistant on Disney Junior’s Sheriff Callie’s Wild West and, since then, has labored as a author, storyboard artist and director on a number of animated sequence. Her storyboard credit embody Disney’s Miles from Tomorrowland and Pet Canine Friends. She additionally served as a author on the Netflix preschool sequence superior monsters and assistant-directed the Grownup Swim sequence Last Area.
A dynamic chief inside her business and a seasoned public speaker, Raveneau has collaborated with Banff’s World Media Pageant, Black Girls Animate and ASIFA-Hollywood. In January 2021, she was honored with the Subsequent Gen Award from the inaugural Black in Animation Awards.
She earned a Grasp of High quality Arts in animation and is a summa cum laude graduate with a bachelor’s in wonderful arts and English with a focus in inventive writing from the College of California, Los Angeles. Whereas at UCLA, she was lauded with its Director’s Highlight Award for Quick Animated Movies, the Matt Groening Initiative for Quick Animated Movies and the Thompson Prize in English for Greatest Inventive Writing Thesis in 2012.
Raveneau is represented by Matt Shichtman of The Gotham Group and Allison Binder at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP.
