Team

OUR TEAM

Jennifer Liu McCook

Producer

Experienced producer/project manager and content creator with international experience working in the US, Europe and China. Uniquely positioned to manage co-production and co-financing relationships between US and Chinese partners. Deep understanding of the unique differences and requirements of doing US-Sino business.

CEO Beijing Yingdong Media (CHINA)

CEO Castle Pictures (HK)

Executive International Acquisitions - Supervisor Disney, Negotiated distribution and sales agreements for international territories (Miyazaki Library and Keystone library). Developed and maintained key relationships with sales companies, producers, directors, and writers domestically and internationally.

BET networks （under Viacom）Producer

Notable credits:

• “Trail of the Panda” – US/China co-production (Disney) / Writer-Producer

• “Walking on Sunshine” – TV Special (BET/Paramount) / Producer

• “Restless” – 1st US/China co-production / Assoc Producer

Ian Powers

CEO

Originally from New York,Ian has been working in China's entertainment industry since 1999,experienced in production,screenwriting,acting and action direction.Ian has worked with and apprenticed under many of the genre's gurus such as Jackie Chan,Cheng Xiaodong,Yuen Kui,Sammo Hung,and Kenji Tanigaki.
In 2005,Ian co-founded and acted as VP of Beijing Taibo film and advertising sales agency which distributed many international foreign films into the China market and Chinese films into foreign markets.
Ian has deep understanding of cross-cultural content with an international background and brings invaluable industry experience to our team.

Most recent films:

• Producer（New York):Old Boys

• Assistant director:Dragon Blade

• Director and Action director for animation

• NINJAGO short,which later became an award winning TV seres and global toy franchise

• Story development and Action Directing: Kung Fu Dragon 3rd Season(Disney China)

• Action Director:CYBOARS

• Award winning comedy actor: Contract lover(Playing Alex opposite Fan Bingbing and Richie Ren)

Zhang Qiushi

Founder and advisor

Bachelor of Economics from School of Economics and Management in Tsinghua University(Dean's Honour), rich experiences in startup management as well as banking and finance.

• Ex-Director of China for Atrium Innovations, a world-leading health supplements multinational(acquired by Nestle at USD2.3bn in 2017). Built up its China operations from scratch in 6 months including team-building, channel expansion and go-to market, achieving 200mln social media exposure.

• Ex-Co-founder and VP for business development for DateTix.com(Backdoor-listed on Australian Stock Exchange in 2015)

• Ex-Chief Strategy Officer and VP for business development,Red Dragon Animation Studios

• Ex-Banking and Stock-Brokerage professional with HSBC and Citigroup respectively in HK, managing large Chinese institutional clients.Rich experience in the global financial industry. Executed financing deals of over USD3bln.

• Executive Producer: web movies "Reincarnation of Monkey King", one of the first Chinese web-movie brought to Cannes.

Manuel Cristobal

Producer

Manuel Cristobal is an Audiovisual producer and consultant, as well he is member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the United States and Spain. He is a member of the Board of CARTOON, and holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the Rey Juan Carlos University. He graduated in directing from ARTTS International UK and has a Masters in TV Entertainment from the Eric Pommer Institute in Berlin. Since 2001 he has produced eleven feature films which were distributed globally, eight of them animated.
He has won five Goyas for best animated film, an EFA award, a Platinum Award and twice the jury award at Annecy, the most important animation festival in the world. And Enthuse is proud to welcome him to the team as an associate and producer.

Suzan Su

Producer

Suzan is an experienced animation Line Producer / Producer with 23 years of experience and has supervised over 2000 minutes of animation. She has ran projects across over 10 countries.

Designer of proprietary cloud-based animation pipeline CGpipe. She was partner of Huhu Studios and the CEO of Huhu China before she joined us in Enthuse Animations. Her recent film Mosley was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award.