Toronto Animation Film Festival 2021

Adult Swim's Doomsday Brothers: From Pitch to Screen

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Join us for a screening of two episodes (Episode 116 “Daddy Issues” and 118 “All is Lost”) from Adult Swim’s Canadian original series, Doomsday Brothers, followed by a Zoom discussion with the show’s co-creator, executive producer, and showrunner, Willem Wennekers. Willem will dive into the development of these episodes from the pitch to animation featuring drawings and concept art from production.

Willem Wennekers is currently a co-creator, executive producer, and showrunner on the Adult Swim series Doomsday Brothers. He is the co‐creator, executive producer, and showrunner of the adult‐animated hit Fugget About It. Willem has written for the Canada‐Australia‐US youth series Oh Yuck: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty, and the feature films The Night Class, Weirdsville, Kiss and Cry, Step Dogs, Pups United, Full Out, Treasure Hounds, From the Vine and the forthcoming Buckley’s Chance. His comedy pieces have appeared in National Lampoon Online and in the book National Lampoon’s Magazine Rack.