Sara Zotovich is a passionate animation storyteller and leader who specializes in creating positive and impactful children’s content grounded in character and story. Throughout her decade of experience in animation, Sara has fostered strong industry relationships, curated and led teams from development through pre-production and has a proven track record of building efficient and effective production pipelines.
Recently Sara served as the Story Manager at Kuku Studios on the Emmy award-winning series Go! Go! Cory Carson as well as an unannounced feature film. In this role, she oversaw the story room, developed the studio’s remote feature pipeline and led a team of 16 story artists across both projects fostering collaboration, inclusiveness and creativity while delivering quality content.
Prior to joining Kuku, Sara spent four years overseas in Australia gaining valuable insight into international animation pipelines and effective management of remote teams. Drawing from her previous experience at Paramount Animation, Sara helped these overseas studios to build efficient production infrastructures across episodic and features culminating in over 1,000 minutes of content.
Sara is happiest in development shepherding meaningful stories to life and leading thoughtful and talented teams to their highest potential. Her love of animation is what drives her to work hard and inspire others to do so, in the pursuit of achieving the best possible result.