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Multi Emmy-winning animation artist Gabor Csupo was born in Budapest, Hungary where he studied music and art before
commencing his professional training in animation at Hungary’s famed Pannonia Studios in 1971. Leaving Communist
Hungary in 1975 for artistic opportunities in the West, Csupo and four fellow artists and musicians escaped into Austria
through a darkened train tunnel. Csupo’s first job in the U.S. was at the legendary Hanna Barbera Studios where he worked as an animator.
In 1981, Csupo formed his own animation company, Klasky Csupo. In 1988, Klasky Csupo was asked to animate a cartoon strip called THE SIMPSONS. The enormous success of those
early bumpers led to its work on the series, which Klasky Csupo animated for the first three seasons of the show and for which
they won two Emmys. Csupo went on to co-develop, produce and animate the phenomenally successful RUGRATS series, the
most popular children’s show in the U.S. Csupo also produced and animated such distinguished series as DUCKMAN,
ROCKET POWER, THE WILD THORNBERRYS and the latest Nickelodeon hit AS TOLD BY GINGER. In 1998, Csupo co-produced the company’s first venture into
feature filmmaking, the enormously successful THE RUGRATS MOVIE (the first non-Disney animated film to gross over US$100million),
as well as its hit sequel, RUGRATS IN PARIS: THE MOVIE. BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA marks the first live-action feature for
Csupo and has been a huge box office success, taking over US$80million in its first seven weeks of release in the U.S. Csupo's
devotion to quality family entertainment and his unique story telling ability makes him the perfect director for "The
Secret of Moonacre".
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