Rob Minkoff

Robert R Rob Minkoff born August 11 1962 is an American filmmaker He is known for directing the Academy Awardwinning animated feature The Lion King Minkoff was born in Palo Alto California He studied at California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s in the Character Animation department He has directed several films for Walt Disney Feature Animation including The Lion King 1994 and two of the Roger Rabbit shorts Tummy Trouble 1989 and Roller Coaster Rabbit 1990 While working at Disney he wrote the song Good Company for Oliver Company He also made the films Stuart Little 1999 Stuart Little 2 2002 The Haunted Mansion 2003 and The Forbidden Kingdom 2008 Minkoff also participates as a member of the jury for the NYICFF a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18 He is currently working on two films Flypaper which is set to release in 2011 and the announced Chinese Odyssey He married Crystal Kung on September 29 2007 Minkoff is the brotherinlaw of Jeffrey Kung a Chinese singer and radio VJ Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Minkoff licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia