Sue Bea Montgomery (born 1958) is an American film producer from

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. After serving as an associate producer on the 1999

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'' Chillicothe'', she introduced the film's director Todd Edwards and his brother

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to entrepreneur and inventor Maurice Kanbar, who had invested in the film. Kanbar agreed to finance the brothers to direct an animated film, based on a well known fairy tale, and they came up with '' Hoodwinked'', a unique retelling of ''

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''. To produce the film, Montgomery and Kanbar founded Kanbar Entertainment and Kanbar Animation in 2002. To save costs, the film's animation was produced in

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, which made it the first independent computer-animated film to be produced in the Philippines. The film was also one of the first computer-animated films to be completely independently funded. ''Hoodwinked!'' was released in 2005, receiving mixed reviews, and earning over $110 million worldwide. Montgomery served as a producer on two

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series; '' Sid the Science Kid'' from 2008 to 2009 and ''

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'' from 2009 to 2010. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award in the category of Outstanding Children's Animated Program for her work on ''Dinosaur Train''. She has also worked on a number of other well known films, including '' Ironweed'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Atlantis: The Lost Empire''.

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* 1958 births Living people American film producers American women film producers American animated film producers 21st-century American women {{US-film-producer-stub