The incredible Spirit Rangers is nominated for a Peabody Award! 🌿
Created by Karissa Valencia — the first Native American showrunner on a Netflix animated series — and produced by Chris Nee's company Laughing Wild — this show is a milestone in representation and storytelling.
Honored to have contributed as Consulting Score Producer. Congrats to the whole team!
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‘Heartstopper,’ ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,’ Among Inaugural Winners of The Velma Awards (Exclusive)
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The honors, launched by the Chris Nee co-founded The Rainbow Project, celebrate creatives and children’s and family media working towards better onscreen representation of LGBTQ+ youth and their families.
Chris Nee, Rainbow Project Founders on Launching the Velma Awards and the State of LGBTQ-Inclusive Kids Media
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The producer and showrunner, along with voice and casting director Kristi Reed, and studio executive Jeremy Blacklow discuss founding a new way to celebrate Hollywood’s “courageous” LGBTQ+ creators, queering the awards show format, and how inclusive stories may weather larger political and industry challenges.
For #pridemonth we're celebrating #LGBTQ #animation and this week, it's creators.
Chris Nee is the creator of the hit kids show Doc McStuffins. Nee describes herself as a gay “relatively butch” woman who tried her hand at acting before realising there were [a lot] more opportunities for her behind the camera. She created Doc McStuffins to be the show she wished existed when growinng up and it was the first pre-school show to feature and LGBTQ couple in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Nee
Jérôme Leroy
The Hollywood Reporter
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