Lenora Hume

Lenora Hume is a Canadian animation Producer, Cinematographer, and Production Executive who has worked for Nelvana, The Walt Disney Company, and Hit Entertainment.

Career Hume graduated from Toronto's Havergal College in 1970, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Waterloo four years later. In 1976, the Toronto animation company Nelvana hired her as a cinematographer, a position she held for several of its first television specials including The Devil and Daniel Mouse. Hume served as director of photography for its first animated feature, 1983's Rock & Rule. For its next effort, 1985's The Care Bears Movie, she served as supervising producer and worked with Korean and Taiwanese crew.

Lenora also began producing television animation. Ewoks and Droids for Lucasfilm and The Care Bears are amongst her producing credits, which also include the award-winning Babar (1989, Gemini Award for Best Animated Program or Series) and Beetlejuice (1990, Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program).

By 1990, Hume moved to Walt Disney Television Animation, where she became Director of International Production, overseeing production on all animated shows produced between 1990-2003 featured in The Disney Afternoon syndicated package. With a career spanning 16 years, she rose within the organization to become Senior Vice President of Worldwide Production for both Walt Disney Television Animation and DisneyToon Studios. During which time, she oversaw production of shows including TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles (TV series), Bonkers (TV series), Goof Troop and feature films including DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp and A Goofy Movie, as well as its sequel An Extremely Goofy Movie.

In 2006, she left Disney and joined HIT Entertainment as Executive Vice President of Production & Programming and Alloy Digital, where she is producing the content for Shut Up! Cartoons one of the new funded channels on YouTube.

Personal life Hume lives in the greater Los Angeles area; her son is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.