Claus Toksvig Kjaer

I’m a Danish Animation Producer. Studied English Literature at Aarhus University but changed course and went to pursue Classical Drawing and Animation at The Animation Workshop in Viborg. After graduation I worked on a number of short films before joining Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny Ireland in the summer 2006, as Production Coordinator on their BBC Television Show ‘Skunk Fu’. Returning to Denmark in 2009 I began working for Mark Film as Production Manager leading a series of animated science projects and commercials. In order to attract international co-productions Arsenalet hired me as Producer of their company cluster in mid October 2011. Focusing primarily on feature production I partnered up with Nørlum Animation Studio in 2013 co-producing such films as the Oscar nominated ‘Song of the Sea’ for Cartoon Saloon and ‘Longway North’ for Sacrebleu. The chance came for another collaboration with Cartoon Saloon in 2015, this time a 22 min. Pilot for Amazon Prime called ‘Eddie of the Realms Eternal’. Currently we are working with Maybe Movies in Paris on Remi Chaye’s next feature “Calamity Jane”.