David Derks

Editor

David is currently Vice-President of ASIFA-Hollywood, the International Animated Society that has its roots in France, and produces The Annie Awards, animation’s highest honor. David is a digital producer at Twentieth Television, where he creates digital content for social media platforms, which includes the company’s YouTube channel and other digital outlets. He was previously at ABC Studios and was involved with shows like Desperate Housewives, LOST, Alias, Grey’s Anatomy, Commander in Chief, Scrubs, Private Practice, According to Jim and Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as television miniseries Muppets’ Wizard of Oz and Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital.

Articles By David Derks

A Handy-Dandy Checklist of the Animated Features Released in the U.S. in 2020 (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many features scheduled for this year were moved to 2021.) 1. WEATHERING WITH YOU (1/17/20) GKids. D: Makoto Shinkai 2. FARMAGEDDON: A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (2/14/20) Netflix. D: Will Becher, Richard Phelan 3. ONWARD (3/6/20) Pixar […]

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Due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the live-action multicam show One Day at a Time was put on hold. However, the show’s producers found another way to produce a new, original episode in this time of quarantine: animation. The original idea was to film the episode traditionally as live-action with instered fantasy elements. When the […]

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