Clifton Named Film Roman's VP of TV.

Business/Entertainment Editors

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2000

Sidney Clifton has been promoted to VP in charge of television for Film Roman Inc. (Nasdaq:ROMN), it was announced by John Hyde, president and CEO of the company.

Clifton's responsibilities will be to oversee all television projects at Film Roman from their development to network and cable sales, as well as acquisition of literary projects for live action and animated production. She also will be making deals with actors, writers, directors and producers to create series and television features for the company.

In making the announcement, Hyde stated, "This promotion is our way of rewarding Sidney, who has been instrumental in helping us accomplish the success we have achieved in the television market place. Under her guidance, we have not only enhanced our position as one of the primary suppliers of animation programming but also have greatly expanded our presence in the live action field."

For the past year, Clifton has been Film Roman's director of Television Development, and before that, was the company's manager of Television Development. She joined the studio as its Development Coordinator. Prior to this, Clifton, who has a literary and writing background as a feature columnist for Exodus and Essence magazines, was executive assistant to the senior V.P. of Operations at Fox Sports Network.

The winner of 10 Emmy Awards and 23 Emmy nominations, Film Roman is one of the largest and most respected independent broad-based production companies and animation studios in the country, as well as a producer of unique feature films.

In television, the company produced the Humanitas Award nominated "Johnny Tsunami" and is in production on the "12th Lap" for the Disney Channel. On the animation side, Film Roman is producing such outstanding shows as "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill" for 20th Century Fox Television, "The Oblongs" for Warner Bros. Network, "Doomsday" for UPN and Marvel Media's "X-Men," a Saturday morning animated series based on the best-selling comic characters, for WB Kids Television.