With Screen Australia and the ABC as core initiating partners, the Asian Animation Summit (AAS) is an important event for Australian screen producers, not just those who specialise in animated screen product. It is, in part, projecting an image of the whole Australian screen industry to Asian peers, one that it has not had before.
The summit was an initiative of the former head of Children’s television at the ABC, Tim Brooke-Hunt, whose proposal for a market place of children’s TV projects won the support of Kim Dalton, then Head of Television at the ABC. Dalton now chairs the Asian Animation Summit, the event’s co-ordinating agency for its owner, Brunico Communications Ltd.
