Kristina Reed

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SpouseMack Reed
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Kristina Reed is an American film producer, primarily of animated films, produced through DreamWorks Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios. She has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film [1] for the 2014 short film Feast . [2]

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Early life and education

Reed graduated from Polytechnic School [3] in Pasadena, California. She earned a bachelor's degree with honors in Creative Writing from Brown University. [4] She is married to Mack Reed and has 2 children.

Career

Reed is known for her work Paperman (2012), [5] Feast (2014), [6] [7] both were produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. [8] [9] Paperman premiered in front of Wreck-It Ralph . When Paperman won the Academy Award for best animated short film in 2013, Reed gained immediate notoriety for throwing paper planes at the Oscars ceremony and being removed by security. [10]

Feast premiered in front of Big Hero 6 (on which Reed was co-producer) in theaters. She served on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Leadership Team as head of Production, head of Development, then producer/co-producer for these Oscar-winning animated films.

After leaving Disney, Reed went on to work for The Madison Square Garden Company, as the VP, Strategy and Creative Development of the Sphere. [11]

Filmography

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