Christopher Panzner is an American artist/writer/producer living and working in France. He has worked for a number of pioneers in the television and film industry, notably as Technical Director for the inventor of interactive television shopping, the Home Shopping Network and as Operations Director, France, for the inventor of the colorization process for black-and-white films, Color Systems Technology. He has developed animation software, designed theme channels and was Managing Director of the Luxembourg-based studio, Luxanima, which shared an International Emmy in 1994 for French CGI series Insektors, the first computer-generated TV series ever made. He went on to set up an animation/FX studio, Image Effects, where he supervised the creation of 2D animated seriesThe Tidings for Entertainment Rights before creating his own studio in the east of France the following year, Talkie Walkie, specializing in pre-production and computer production and whose clients included a Who's Who of international television animation producers such as SIP,, RTV Family Entertainment, Alphanim and Cinar He joined Paris-based production company TEVA in 2001 and was instrumental in the financing and/or the making of five animated features there in 2002–2004: double-Oscar nominated The Triplets of Belleville, Venice Film Festival selection The Dog, the General and the Birds written by Tonino Guerra, Jester Till produced by Oscar-winning Eberhard Junkersdorf, Blackmor’s Treasure and . In 2002, TEVA and Mistral Films won the grand prize at IMAGINA for an experimental short film, The Tale of the Floating World directed by Alain Escalle, beating such prestigious competition as Shrek, Amélie and The Lord of the Rings, and was entirely responsible for the fabrication of Storimages’ Pulcinella-winning and International Emmy-nominated special, Marcelin Caillou, based on the book by famous French illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé. In 2006, The Triplets of Belleville, The Dog, the General and the Pigeons and Blackmor’s Treasure were part of an eight-film retrospective of contemporary French animation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "Grand Illusions: The Best of Recent French Animation." Mr. Panzner has written original animated television shows, adapted into English a number of other television shows and feature films and writes regularly for Animation World Network, Animation Magazine, ASIFA, , Arts Editor, Artnow Online, etc. In 2005, he developed a series of high-definition television documentaries on communication with animals, Talk to Me, and two one-hour specials, The Hermione and Lafayette, about the reconstruction of the ship the Marquis de Lafayette sailed to America on during the American Revolutionary War for Woods TV, Paris. He also did the English adaptation of Michel Fessler's, author of Academy Award for Best Documentary FeatureMarch of the Penguins, latest feature film in development Henri Bosco's L'Enfant et la Rivière. In 2006, Mr. Panzner was Director, Short Form Programming for Discovery Communications and was responsible for the development and production of math and social studies shorts for Discovery Education's www.unitedstreaming.com. As part of his responsibilities, he also did development of short form programming for the diverse Discovery networks and new media platforms. Since leaving Discovery, Mr. Panzner has dedicated his time to the development of a new audiovisual industry he has invented, "Re:Naissance" is a revolutionary new concept in animation, conceived as a means of transforming aging catalog and archives into salable, low-cost, high quality audiovisual products. For the first time ever in the 100-year history of animation, Re:Naissance is going to invert the adaptation process by taking existing live-action films and faithfully reproducing them in animation, in a totally original graphic style unique to every film. As astonishing as it might sound, this has never been done. The first Re:Naissance film is George A. Romero's 1968 cult horror classic Night of the Living Dead. In the Spring of 2010, he also had his first one-man show of drawings/collages in Paris, "Décollage", at Etains du Campanile As an illustrator, a work of his was included in from Mike Schneider's adaptation of Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, exclusively in images, . One of his works was also included in a special traveling exhibition of , a shot-by-shot remake of Bill Plympton’s Oscar-nominated short Guard Dog where each sequence was assigned to “a willing volunteer who would reanimate it in any chosen style or medium.” Described as “a flicker frame extravaganza where every individual frame was outsourced to a different artist to interpret in their own way,” the sequence the still is from—a collaboration within a collaboration—was also from Mike Schneider, who spearheaded the similar mass collaboration project .” "Guard Dog: Global Jam" won the award for Best Experimental Animation at . Mr. Panzner created New Art and Culture magazine in 2011, a vanity project, and is currently a freelance writer and illustrator. He recently completed his first solo illustration project, a mash-up of French illustrator Gustave Doré’s collected works for Friedrich Nietzsche's masterpiece . The 103 illustrations ink drawings, done to resemble engravings, correspond to the approximately 90 chapters of the work A series of fifty-five watercolor and ink Illustrations commemorating Jack Kerouac’s Beat Generation classic called , has been approved by the Jack Kerouac Estate and is on permanent loan to their website at . The series debuted on Kerouac’s ninety-eighth birthday on March 12th, 2020, fifty years after his passing
