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Jennifer Twiner McCarron is an award-winning producer and the CEO of Thunderbird Entertainment Group since 2018. She has led production on multiple critically-acclaimed titles, including Emmy-winning The Last Kids on Earth for Netflix, and was named the Equity and Inclusion Champion during BC Business' 2021 "Women of the Year" Awards.
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Jennifer Twiner McCarron is an award-winning producer and has been the CEO of Thunderbird Entertainment Group since 2018. Having joined Atomic Cartoons (Thunderbird’s Kids and Family division) as the Head of Production in 2011, Jenn was promoted to its chief executive in 2016, and under her leadership the studio grew from 25 artists to more ...
Jan 2, 2024 · Find articles by Jennifer Twiner McCarron, CEO and Chair of Thunderbird Entertainment Group in the Entertainment industry and member of the Forbes Business Council.
Jun 22, 2018 · Jennifer Twiner McCarron has been promoted to CEO of the company, though she will also remain CEO of the Thunderbird subsidiary Atomic Cartoons.
- How was Thunderbird able to hit record numbers during everything that was 2020? As content creators, we were fortunate to find ourselves working in a relatively pandemic-proof industry.
- What productions that aired last year are you particularly proud of? A handful of our productions across all divisions were nominated for and won industry awards, including Molly of Denali, which won a Peabody Award in June for its groundbreaking work featuring the first Indigenous lead character in a nationally distributed children’s series, and a 2020 Television Critic Association Award.
- Were they any that you think deserved a better shake from audiences than they ended up getting? No; we trust the audiences’ taste. If it works, it works, and if not, we learn from it and pivot.
- What do you think 2021 holds for the Vancouver film industry? Opportunity in this sector is only increasing with so many big, new players up and coming online that are not startups, including Disney, who’ve intensified their focus on streaming content now that their cruise ships and theme parks are down, for example.
May 2, 2024 · Its CEO, Jennifer Twiner McCarron, a former BIV Influential Women in Business winner, is staying in place. Berkowitz' responsibility to oversee new animated- and scripted-production...
Jun 20, 2018 · In 2016, Twiner McCarron became President of Atomic when the company was acquired by Thunderbird. Within the year, interim Thunderbird CEO Fecan promoted her to Co-President of Thunderbird, as well as promoting Great Pacific Media’s Mark Miller to Co-President.
