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  • Média-Participations strengthens executive team with two new appointments

    Média-Participations strengthens executive team with two new appointments

    Mumbai: Média-Participations in France has strengthened the team with the appointment of Laurent Panissier as 3D general supervisor and Xavier Morelli as 2D executive producer for its audiovisual production division.

    Earlier this month, the company had appointed Lila Hannou as director of development and strategy. Managing director Caroline Audebert said it was essential to strengthen and restructure the team to take on the challenges ahead of the studio. “The fact that professionals such as Laurent and Xavier have joined us, after Lila, gives me great confidence in our ability to speed up the studio’s transformation, that we started several months ago, and complete the ambitious productions that we are planning for the coming years,” she added.

    A graduate of the Arts Décoratifs in multimedia and CGI in 2001, Laurent Panissier was previously associated with BUF. He worked in the special effects production team as a graphic artist as well as supervisor, alongside Pierre Buffin and his teams for 10 years. In 2011, he joined Mac Guff Lign as supervisor.

    Xavier Morelli has 25 years of experience in animation production. He began his career as a production assistant in 1996 and joined Ellipse in 1998 as assistant director and production manager. In 2004, he joined Xilam Animation, as assistant director. In 2012, he directed the 3D production of the feature “The Prince” and “The 108 Demons” for Same Player Productions, before joining Futurikon in 2015 where he dealt with the production of the studio’s series. After a period at Bayard animation, he joined Cyber Group Studios as production manager. In 2019, he was production manager at Ankama animations on the feature “Princess Dragon.”

    Média-Participations houses Ellipsanime Productions, Dargaud Media, Dupuis Edition and Audiovisuel and Ellipse Studio.

  • Ants Digital appoints Ratnadeep Sharma as executive producer

    Ants Digital appoints Ratnadeep Sharma as executive producer

    Mumbai: Tech led marketing agency Ants Digital has appointed Ratnadeep Sharma (RD) as executive producer. He will be based out of the agency’s head office in Gurgaon and will oversee all video productions and operations.

    RD joins Ants Digital after working for several agencies, production houses, media publishing houses and television channels. He comes with over 10 years of experience in advertising and has produced over 2000 TVCs, television series, web commercials, AVs, viral content for over 80 leading national international clients.

    “We have been consistently scaling our presence in the digital space, and with his appointment, we will reinforce our operations in digital film production, 2D animation and motion graphics,” said Ants Digital CEO Sanjay Arora. “RD has a good understanding of video production and has vast experience in live shoots and animation, which will add immense value to our clients. We look forward to producing some great content with RD on board.”

    RD has also been the youngest member of the jury panel at many prestigious Indian and international film festivals. One of his campaigns for the online promotion of “Bahubali 2” won the DigiPub award for best brand partnership. He has worked with well-known industry brands such as JW Marriott, Dupont, BASF (Nunhems), Hewlett Packard, Coca Cola, Dominos, KFC, Accor group of hotels, adidas, among many others.  

    “Ants has been scaling its operations, and I am really excited to build and grow this further,” said Sharma on his appointment. “Videos and films are the need of the hour for brands to communicate with their target audience in a better and interesting way. The digital prowess and unique mix of service offerings of Ants will bring more value to clients now with their in-house film production facility,” he added.