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"OH YEAH! COOL" - That's what Bejuba means, according to Tatiana Kober's niece, Alena. When the 9 year old created the word as a way to express herself and to cheer on her favorite hockey team, it was clear to Tatiana that there was no other word that would so aptly define the name of the company she was about to form.

     

Bejuba! Entertainment is a leading executive production and distribution company representing producers from around the world to bring top quality children's entertainment properties to the global marketplace.  Bejuba! specializes in rights management, co-productions, financing (closing-gap financing) third-party acquisitions, licensing and merchandising, and program sales in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.  The company maintains a growing catalogue of award-winning children's and family oriented animated and live-action programs (Ricky Sprocket, The Hive, Jibber Jabber and International Interactive Emmy Award winner The Zimmer Twins).  Bejuba!'s partners include Studio B DHX(Canada), Pesky Productions (UK), Lupus Films, Radical Sheep Productions, and multi-award winning animation studio zinc Roe Design (Canada.).

Some of the world-renowned companies that Bejuba! has represented are National Geographic Kids, ZDFE and Tandem Films. Bejuba strives to be relevant, exciting and cutting edge in all areas of media and programming.

TATIANA KOBER - PRESIDENT

Tatiana started her career working in production at TVOntario in Toronto, Canada. After 6 years, she moved to Japan and began working on the business side of the industry at NHK. There, in the mid-nineties, she secured co-productions in the HD Hi-Vision dept. After 2 years, she moved to England where she lived for 7 years and concentrated on the kids' market. She worked in distribution and financing at BBC Worldwide where she specialized in the German market and was later named the children's genre specialist. At Endemol UK she was brought in to spearhead Endemol's thrust into the children's market but left when she became the managing Director of Egmont Imagination UK. Egmont Imagination UK was a subsidary of Egmont, the largest children's publisher in Europe. Here Tatiana lead the distribution team and bulit the catalogue. The world market fell under her remit and she was instrumental in placing and financing series like "Lizzie McGuire," "Paz", the Penguin for Discovery Kids US, and "The Fairytaler", a Hans Christian Andersen FairyTale anthology.
Tatiana graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (B.A.A.) in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson University in Toronto. She specialized in Children's media, and in documentary production.

SANDRINE PECHELS DE SAINT SARDOS - VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION

With almost 20 years of TV experience, Sandrine came to Bejuba! Entertainment in February 2007 because of her love and passion for Children's programming. Sandrine was born in Paris, France and studied Economics at Paris University X. Simultaneously she was a journalist intern at La Cinq Berlusconi and a sales manager at Double V, a production company specialized in MOW and family programming.
Upon moving to Santa Barbara, California, Sandrine studied Journalism and was a PA for KEY News ABC. She then moved to Toronto and worked as a Business Development Manager at Alliance Atlantis. She spent 12 years in New York working for an array of major entertainment companies in creative development, production and distribution for Sunbow Entertainment, Sony Wonder, TV-Loonland, Hallmark and Classic Media/ Entertainment Rights. In all these companies, she was tapped for high level positions spearheading global distribution and was responsible for generating revenue through: television sales, video sales, mobile sales and co-production agreements. She became lately an expert in new media rights through Bejuba! Entertainment where she is currently a partner.
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