John Foster Pomeroy is an American animator who has worked for several major studios.

In my first roll as animator, I was fortunate enough to work under the brilliant and skeptical eye of "nine old men" legend, Frank Thomas. Frank Thomas was a part of Disney's first core animation team – nine pioneers in the animation world who shaped the medium for years to come. Needless to say, having the opportunity to work under one of the "nine" was a massive honor I still don't take lightly!

One of my early tasks was to animate a scene from Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, where Tigger is walking through the snow. Sounds simple enough, right? And yet every single time I showed Frank the scene, he would say, "looks pretty good, but…" I ended up animating that one scene eighteen different times! It was excruciating, but to this day he gave me one of the most important lessons I learned about character design and believability.

I would then go on to work as animator for The Rescuers, Pete's Dragon, The Fox and the Hound, and The Small One, to name just a few.

Dan Fellman is the former president of Warner Bros. Distribution Corporation.

Prior to Warner Bros., he was the founder and president of American Theatre Management in New York. He previously served as vice president and director of Cinema National Theatres. He began his career in film distribution at Paramount Pictures and later joined Loews Theatre Corporation.

Fellman is a past chairman of the Motion Picture Pioneers. He is on the board of directors and the executive committee of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation and a past president of the Variety Club Children's Charity. He is a member of the Lollipop Theater Network advisory board as well as a member for the Watts Cinema and Education Center advisory council.

In addition, Fellman has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1988 and was elected to the Board of Governors in 2014.