David K. Lovegren is a film producer. After working on ''
Fantasia/2000
''Fantasia 2000'' is a 1999 American Animated film, animated musical film, musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is the List of Wa ...
'' and the
Direct-to-video feature ''
The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea'' at
Disney, he went to
Manila, Philippines to start the
independent animation studio ImagineAsia.
The company was shut down after failing to attract business, but in January 2002 Lovegren hired back around twenty animators that had been employed there to work on the 2005 computer animated film, ''
Hoodwinked!''. Along with fellow ''Hoodwinked!'' producer
Sue Bea Montgomery
Sue Bea Montgomery (born 1958) is an American film producer from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
After serving as an associate producer on the 1999 Independent film '' Chillicothe'', she introduced the film's director Todd Edwards and his brother Cory Edward ...
, Lovegren formed a new animation studio for the film's production, based in a 5,000 square foot rented house in Manila. ''Hoodwinked!'' was the first independent computer animated film to be produced in the Philippines, and one of the first computer animated films to be completely independently funded.
Lovegren also produced the 2010 computer animated film ''
Dino Time
''Dino Time'' (known as ''Back to the Jurassic'' in the US) is a 2012 South Korean Computer-animated film, computer-animated fantasy comedy adventure film produced by CJ Entertainment and distributed by Clarius Entertainment. The film was released ...
'' and the 2011 sequel to ''Hoodwinked!'', ''
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil''.
Lovegren is a graduate of
Principia College
Principia College (Principia or Prin) is a private liberal arts college in Elsah, Illinois. It was founded in 1912 by Mary Kimball Morgan with the purpose of "serving the Cause of Christian Science." "Although the College is not affiliated wit ...
, Elsah, Illinois.
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Living people
American animated film producers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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