Izabela Rieben has 10-year experience in programming for the Children’s Department - airing 35 hours programming weekly, for the French-Speaking Swiss National Broadcast Télévision Suisse Romande. She is responsible for production project selection for the Swiss Television Fund for animation (including Georges Schwizgebel’s awarded short "L’homme sans ombre", Claude Barras's Cannes Festival 2006 nominated short "Banquise". She is also programming for animation program "Animaniacs", a late-night show dedicated to artistic and politically incorrect animation. Member of the EBU Animation Guarantors group, working closely with Children’s Department heads of major national European broadcast networks (BBC, ZDF, Rai, France 2, TVE etc.) in order to select projects for production of high-quality European animation.