MEET SARA.
Founder of Little Bean Studios, Sara Zotovich Van Veen is a passionate animation storyteller and leader who specializes in creating positive and impactful children’s content grounded in character and story. Throughout her decade of experience in animation, Sara has fostered strong industry relationships, curated and led teams from development through pre-production and has a proven track record of building efficient and effective production pipelines.
Recently Sara served as the Story Manager at Kuku Studios on the Emmy award-winning series Go! Go! Cory Carson as well as an unannounced feature film in partnership with Netflix. In this role, she oversaw the story room, developed the studio’s remote feature pipeline and led a team of 16 story artists across both projects fostering collaboration, inclusiveness and creativity while delivering quality content from the comfort of our living rooms!
Prior to joining Kuku, Sara spent four years overseas in Australia gaining valuable insight into international animation pipelines and effective management of remote teams. Drawing from her previous experience at Paramount Animation, Sara helped these overseas studios to build efficient production infrastructures across episodic and features culminating in over 1,000 minutes of content.
Sara is happiest in development shepherding meaningful stories to life and leading thoughtful and talented teams to their highest potential. Her love of animation is what drives her to work hard and inspire others to do so, in the pursuit of achieving the best possible result.
MEET LITTLE BEAN.
A note from our Founder…
I’d love to introduce you to my daughter, Zoe, aka Little Bean Van Veen and my entire world. Zoe is the reason Little Bean Studios exists. Yes, because I named the studio after her, but mostly because she gave me the courage to start my own studio. And I’ve never looked back. Every day I am grateful that I have the opportunity to show up for Zoe, do the work I love, collaborate with amazing folks all over the globe and continue to shepherd impactful stories into the world.
CHARITABLE GIVING:
Zoe had a challenging start to life. She was born just over 2 months premature in January of 2021, weighing 1lb 14ozs and we endured a 72 day NICU stay before she was strong enough to come home. We are forever grateful to our NICU care team for the tremendous work they do for families like ours. When I created Little Bean Studios I knew I wanted to not only honor Zoe by name but honor her by charitable giving with a portion of our proceeds. And so, it gives me the greatest joy to announce that Little Bean Studios has happily committed to giving a percentage of our yearly earnings to our NICU communities that were there for my family in our darkest hour.