Presenters — Speakers & Curators

Pixelodeon 2007 took place on June 9-10 at AFI in Los Angeles. The presenters are shown below. Check back for our 2008 lineup!

Speakers

Dan Harmon
Dan is Executive Producing Acceptable.tv for VH1. Recently, he co-wrote and Executive Produced the Sarah Silverman Program pilot for Comedy Central. Previously, Dan co-wrote the FBC pilot Heat Vision and Jack at Red Hour Films and Greenblatt-Janollari Studios for FBC with Ben Stiller directing and Jack Black and Owen Wilson starring. Dan has also written Monster House with Rob Schrab for Jack Rapke and Robert Zemeckis at Dreamworks and Giant Robot for Manifest and Jim Henson Pictures. They also did a rewrite on Live Bait at Imagine/Universal. Dan and Rob came out of the world of comic books where they published Scud: The Disposable Assassin.

Kent Nichols
Kent Nichols is a storyteller, technology geek, and goofball. Kent dropped out of college and dedicated his life to comedy and filmmaking. While training at the Second City Conservatory, learned how to make funny movies with only his friends, an iMac, and a MiniDV camera. In 2003, his film, Baggage, won the International 48 Hour Film Project and Scott Billups called him “the future of the Entertainment industry” in his book Digital Moviemaking. In 2005, Kent, along with writing partner Douglas Sarine, created the internet sensation AskANinja.com, which has been viewed over 20 million times, quoted on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, featured on NPR and endorsed on numerous of blogs including Boing Boing, Diggnation and Rocketboom. Kent lives in West Hollywood with his computers and video cameras.

Jon Phillips
Jon is an open source developer, artist, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 13+ years of experience creating communities and computing culture. He is a core Open Source developer on Inkscape, a scalable vector graphics editor, the Open Clip Art Library, and is writing/producing a book, “CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems.” He currently works for Creative Commons and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute in the Design+Technology department.

Douglas Sarine
Douglas Sarine is a writer/performer who lives in Los Angeles. He co-created the online series Ask A Ninja and Hope Is Emo with creative partner Kent Nichols. He is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and has appeared on shows like NBC’s The Office, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Douglas performs regularly at the Improv Olympic comedy club and with the Irish punk band The Mighty Regis in L.A.

Rob Schrab
Rob Executive Produced the Sarah Silverman Program for Comedy Central and Executive Produced Acceptable.tv for VH1, along with Jack Black and Dan Harmon. Prior to that Rob developed Robot Bastard for MTV and the Krofft Superstars Show for FBC. Along with Dan Harmon, Rob also wrote and Executive Produced the pilot Heat Vision and Jack at Red Hour Films and Greenblatt-Janollari Studios for FBC with Ben Stiller directing and Jack Black and Owen Wilson starring.

Fred Seibert
Fred Seibert makes cartoons and television networks. In 1998 former Hanna-Barbera Cartoons president Fred Seibert formed Frederator Studios, an independent television production company. He is the executive producer of seven animated series on Nickelodeon’s networks: The Fairly Oddparents, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (with Susan Miller), Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and Random! Cartoons. He is a founder of Channel Frederator, the world’s first cartoon podcast, and Next New Networks, a company launching 101 micro-TV networks. Seibert began his career in college radio, produced jazz records, and started in television as the first creative director of MTV: Music Television. He co-founded Fred/Alan Inc. with Alan Goodman as the first branding agency in television, where they created Nick-at-Nite and relaunched Nickelodeon as the #1 network in cable television.

Curators