Vicky Jenson started painting backgrounds for Hanna-Barbera cartoons and rose through the ranks of the TV and film animation business until DreamWorks hired her to co-direct a feature animation. Upon its release in 2001 the movie proved to be a juggernaut. Its title is “Shrek,” and not only did it win the first-ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and gross over $267 million in 2001 alone, but it also spun off three sequels, several video games and even a Broadway stage adaptation.

Vicky went on to co-direct the Oscar-nominated “Shark Tale” and also to direct several live-action projects in the worlds of film, television and advertising. She is currently hard at work on her latest project, a new animated film she is directing for Skydance Animation that is scheduled to be released in November of 2022.

In this interview with Rob Kramer and Pier Carlo Talenti, Vicky discusses the unexpected ways in which the pandemic has affected the making of her new film and how the recent reckoning on gender and race disparity in Hollywood is finally standardizing the inclusive and welcoming atmosphere she always created on her own projects.

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