Open Season

Roger Allers is an Oscar-nominated American film director, screenwriter, storyboard artist, animator and Tony-nominated playwright. He is most well known for directing the highest-grossing 2D animated film of all time, The Lion King, for Disney, and for writing the Broadway adaptation, The Lion... King. Allers became hooked on animation at the age of five after seeing Disney's classic feature film Peter Pan. Deciding that he wanted to become a Disney artist and work with Walt Disney himself, a few years later he sent away for a do-it-yourself Disney animation kit. However, in 1966, when he heard of Walt Disney's death, Allers, by then a high school student, grew discouraged about attaining his dream. He went on to receive a degree in fine arts from Arizona State University. But it was after auditing a class at Harvard that he found his interest in animation renewed. He landed a job with Lisberger Studios, where he worked on the animation end for projects such as Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Make a Wish, and various commercials.
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Jill Culton is an American animator, who is best known for her directorial debut on Sony's first animated movie, Open Season. Previously, she studied at the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. She was also a storyboard artist for various Pixar films such as Toy... Story and Toy Story 2 and also co-wrote the original treatment for Monsters Inc., She was also the animator for the character Turner for the film Cats Don't Dance. Culton is currently working as director for Sony Pictures Animation.
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Anthony F. Stacchi is an American effects animator and film director. Stacchi graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Film then went on to be an Animator and Commercial Director at San Francisco's Colossal Pictures and an effects animator at Industrial Light and Magic on Back... to the Future, Hook, The Rocketeer and Ghost, and James and the Giant Peach. He was a storyboard artist for Antz, Spirit and Curious George and was the head of story for ILM's aborted computer animated feature "Frankenstien", and a short film, Work in Progress. He made his directorial debut as co-director of Sony's first animated film Open Season. It was announced that he may direct an animated stop-motion film based on Alan Snow's children's novel Here Be Monsters! for LAIKA.
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