Screenwriter, novelist and the current Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, is to deliver the Opening Keynote at The Children’s Media Conference in July.
Cottrell-Boyce is the first keynote speaker to return to CMC, having spoken in 2013 about his unique role as writer on the London Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.
One year into his Laureateship Cottrell-Boyce will “reflect on the troubling times we live in and how the children’s media community can step up to the challenges and still shake things up for kids.”
Greg Childs OBE, Editorial Director at CMC said: “In times like these, when the children’s media business is full of uncertainties, and the world itself seems a colder, darker place, Frank’s clear-sighted humanity and passion for bringing the best to young people is what we need to inspire us to shake off the blues and keep going. Because the kids need us to.”
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, is the Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2024-2026. He is the author of ‘Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth’, ‘The Astounding Broccoli Boy’, ‘Cosmic’, ‘Framed’, and ‘Millions’, the last of which was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a movie by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. His books have won, or been nominated for, numerous awards including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. Frank is also a screenwriter, having penned the scripts for a number of feature films including ’24 Hour Party People’ and ‘Millions’ as well as the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.
Tickets for CMC 2025 are now on sale at: www.thechildrensmediaconference.com
Jon Creamer
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