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ELEVATING CANADIAN CONTENT
About Us
Our main goal is to elevate Canadian creators, their vision, with writing, story, design, development support and get it to market.
Purple Monkey Production Inc. is a bold Canadian company dedicated to the discovery, development, and distribution of original Canadian animation content. We specialize in representing emerging and independent Canadian talent, championing their creative voices from concept through completion. Our team offers hands-on support across every stage while also marketing strategies that help animated properties stand out on the world stage.
Whether it’s developing or marketing your pitch, securing sales agents or building distributor relationships, Purple Monkey is where artistic storytelling and smart strategy come together.
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Meet the Consultants
2D pipelines Technical Director
Patrick Hart
Patrick is an experienced technical director with a background as a senior / supervising animator.
He has over 16 years of experience in the animation industry.
He is skilled at making efficient artist centric workflows that are standardized across a production or studio.
Also he has an expertise in making tools and problem solving strategies for all levels of production.
2D animation FX supervisor
Ryan Adams
Ryan specialize in classical 2D visual FX, primarily using Harmony in a TV production setting.
Ryan has worked on FX for various shows, pitches and oddball animation; as well as character animation in the TV industry for over 10 years.
As the shows became more FX demanding, Ryan’s most recent work required to train additional FX staff, overlook incoming demo reels for hiring and lead small VFX teams; keeping everyone on style with each show as well as jumping on other productions within the studio to lend a hand.
Ryan is teaching a 2D VFX class at Seneca Polytech during the winter semester as part of their 2D animation stream where he focuses primarily on Harmony drawn and animated visual FX
Animation Director
Molly Lacoursière
Holder of a BAC in Animation Arts and Science (2D/3D animation) and a DEC in Visual Arts, Molly has been in the animation industry since 2016. Molly specializes in character animation and rigging in 2D using Toon Boom Harmony. Molly has experience in roles of animator, lead animator, rigger and more recently Animation director on the two times award winning project ''Ostinato'' for best 2D animation of pacific Northwest and SILVER winner for best 2D Animation. Last Kids on Earth'' on Netflix , ''Trailer Park Boys'' on Netflix, ''Curious George'' the Movie on Peacock, ''Pinecone and Pony'' on Apple Tv and many more.
Rigging and Animation Supervisor
Alex Matthews
Alex has been working in the animation industry for the past 13 years. His interest is focused mainly on 2D character rigging for Cut Out animation and Alex had the opportunity to work on several international titles including "Rick and Morty", "Lolirock", "Camp WWE", "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs", "Inside Job" and "The Loud House".
Alex has held the roles of Co-Animation Director, lead rigger and animator on the YouTube series "People Watching" created by Winston Rowntree, and was Rigging Supervisor on season 2 of "The Trailer Park Boys" animated series, as well as the animated episodes of the well-known sitcoms "One Day At A Time" and "Black-ish".
Editor
Isabel Ribeiro
Isabel works at Cinesite as an Editor. After studying Production and Post Production for TV and movies in Montreal, she has worked in the animation industry over 4 years. Her experience covers vast projects of series and features such as Hit Pig.
Isabel was selected as an Editor, for Round 3 of WIA Vancouver’s ACE Program, and is editing their short film, Ostinato. Reading about this amazing career and watching a lot of animation, films and TV series are some of her hobbies besides walking her beautiful golden retriever Zoe.
Creative Director
Sonia Furier
Holder of BAA from Sheridan College, Sonia has worked in various positions since 2013 in storyboards on projects such as Numb Chucks, Camp LakeBottom, Rusty Rivets, Kody Kapow, AlienTV, Angry Birds Summer Madness, Corner Gas, Doomsday Brothers and other development projects.
Sonia recently supervised storyboards for Netflix's Unicorn Academy series and movie specials and adult series. Sonia directed a short film called Ostinato, produced by Women in Animation Vancouver and Ace Canada, released in 2023 into film festivals, won Silver Award for Best of the Pacific Northwest , Silver award Collision award for best 2D animation craft short film, screened at Comic-Con independent film festival 2024 and can be viewed on Netflix in a block of 12 short films.
Designer and Writer
Sunita Balsara
Sunita is a writer, designer, and professional worrier based in Toronto. Sunita started working in animation a decade ago as a background and prop designer on Bubble Guppies at Nelvana Studios. Since then, Sunita’s been a character and prop designer for such series as Corn & Peg and Thomas & Friends. She has been published twice in indie comic anthologies and has successfully pitched two short films. One of which is in development at Nelvana titled ‘Canapé!’,.
The second short film is “Ostinato” which is the subject of WIA Vancouver’s ACE 3 Program. When she isn’t drawing or daydreaming, she can be found struggling to not kill her houseplants.
Currently Sunita is illustrating a graphic novel for 'Kids Can Press'.
Elena Furier
Elena has worked in multiple positions of financial controller, CFO and now director of Finance at Northwestern Mutual, Elena is an expert when it comes to managing company finances.
Elena's success comes from collaborating with others and leading teams so they can grow and expand. Elena outlines their steps for greater success.
Elena is passionate about improving the company culture and dedicated to developing a positive work environment as this ensures that employees contribute at the highest levels possible.