Vanessa Wheeler

Vanessa Wheeler is an experienced multi-lingual producer with specialist knowledge in animation, European co-productions and book-to-screen adaptations.  She has spent much of her career at BAFTA and International Emmy-Award winning studio Lupus Films, where she heads up their development slate of animated and live action films and shows, alongside joint managing directors Ruth Fielding and Camilla Deakin.  She also worked with Oscar-nominated SPA Studios (KLAUS) in Madrid as a Production Supervisor on their animated feature film EMBER.  Vanessa’s credits include the feature film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel KENSUKE’S KINGDOM, starring Sally Hawkins and Cillian Murphy; THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA, Channel 4’s second most watched show all year in 2019, and Sky One’s RTS Award-winning CG-animated special THE GHASTLY GHOUL.