Howard Gordon brings Accused to Content London as final speakers announced
Emmy winning writer-producer Howard Gordon is confirmed to join the line up of first class speakers at Content London. In an exclusive Case Study session he will discuss his latest series, Accused along with Michael Chiklis and the key team behind the show.
Also joining the Case Study line up Charlene McKenna brings her new thriller Clean Sweep for RTE to the agenda.
In the first of two special Hot Property sessions, the producers behind five hit shows that started their journey at Content London; Tehran, The Reindeer Mafia, Rana Naidu, Bestseller Boy and Mobile 101 discuss how the projects evolved and went on to have international success.
And in collaboration with Drama Quarterly, a must-see Hot Property session shines a light on three upcoming dramas that all appear in the DQ100 2022/23, a curated selection of the most exciting and ambitious new series coming up.
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Case Studies
Accused
The Accused team discuss the fast-paced provocative thriller, where each episode explores a different crime, in a different city with an entirely original cast.
Howard Gordon
Executive producer, showrunner
Gordon is a television writer, producer and author whose credits include some of TV’s most prolific series. Gordon co-created Homeland, one of the biggest hits in Showtime’s history. Gordan served as showrunner and executive producer of the long-running hit television series, 24, for which he received both the Golden Globe and the Emmy Award for Best Drama Series in 2006. Gordon first gained national attention for his work on Fox’s ground-breaking series The X-Files, for which he won multiple Golden Globes. Other credits include Tyrant, Legends, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beauty and the Beast, and Spenser: For Hire. Gordon’s currently in production as showrunner/EP on Accused, which is scheduled to premiere on Fox in early 2023.
Michael Thorn
President of entertainment
Fox Entertainment
As president of entertainment for Fox Entertainment, Thorn is responsible for all scripted programming and development, as well as casting at Fox, and oversees original scripted live-action and animated content for Fox Entertainment’s streaming AVoD service, Tubi. Before Fox, Thorn was executive vice president of development at 20th Century Fox Television, where he led scripted development efforts on This Is Us, Empire, Life in Pieces and Speechless, among others.
Marlee Matlin
Director
Matlin received worldwide critical acclaim for her motion picture debut in Children of a Lesser God, a performance the film community chose to recognise with its highest honour—the Academy Award for Best Actress. At age 21, she became the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar and one of only four actresses to receive that honour for a film debut. Matlin was honoured by the HFPA with the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. Matlin is making her directorial debut with the network series Accused, coproduction by Sony Pictures Television and Fox.
Michael Chiklis
Actor
Chiklis is an Emmy and Golden Globe winner best known for his role in the acclaimed drama series The Shield. He will next be seen in the cable drama Winning Time: The Rise of The Lakers Dynasty; and The Senior, a football drama from Rod Lurie. Chiklis also has appeared in the films Don’t Look Up, from Adam McKay; the Fantastic Four franchise, in which he played Ben Grimm/The Thing; and in titles such as Eagle Eye. Additional TV credits include Coyote, Fox’s Gotham, American Horror Story, Vegas and The Commish. Chiklis can currently be seen staring in HBO’s Winning Time.
Lauren Stein
EVP, drama development
Sony Pictures Television
Stein serves as executive vice president, drama development for Sony Pictures Television Studios. In this role, she guides the development of scripted programming for drama series, working with over 30 partners across all streaming, cable, and broadcast platforms. Stein joined SPTS in 2015 as a senior vice president and was promoted to her current position in senior management in 2017. During her tenure, Stein has been responsible for the development of such shows as Wheel of Time, The Boys, The Good Doctor, For All Mankind, Them, and the upcoming Accused and A Spy Among Friends. She is also responsible for the next series from Vince Gilligan, Shawn Ryan, Carla Kettner, David Shore, and John Eisendrath.
Clean Sweep
The Clean Sweep team reveal how the drama, which centres around the compelling story of the price paid for long-buried sins and inspired by true events, has been bought to life.
Charlene McKenna
Actress
McKenna’s career began in 2004 with her breakout role in Breakfast on Pluto starring opposite Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson. She has won various accolades including two Outstanding Actress Awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival, Best Actress in a Lead Role in Television at the IFTA Awards as well as numerous nominations. In 2022 McKenna reprised her roles in the highly anticipated final series of Peaky Blinders as well as in the second seasons of Bloodlands and Vienna Blood. In the thriller drama Clean Sweep, created by Gary Tieche, McKenna stars in the lead role as Shelly Mohan, a housewife and mother, married to a Garda detective, who kills her former partner in crime when he threatens to expose her dark past. With her unsuspecting husband hunting for the killer, Shelly must cope with pressures of the tightening noose. Inspired by true events, it is a compelling story of the price paid for long-buried sins.
Larry Bass
Founder/CEO/EP
ShinAwiL
In 1999 Bass established ShinAwiL, now one of the largest independent production companies in Ireland. Bass has executive produced the PBS Masterpiece series Miss Scarlet & The Duke for LA studio Element 8 and A&E International in 2019. He is the producer of the forthcoming feature film The Miracle Club starring Dame Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney, and the forthcoming drama crime series for RTE/Sundance/ZDF Studios Clean Sweep. The ShinAwiL development team is currently in development on original series’ for the Irish, UK and USA market, both scripted and non-scripted.
Patty Ishimoto
Executive producer and managing partner
Element 8 Entertainment
Ishimoto has worked as an executive in the television and telecom industries for more than 20 years, primarily focusing on developing and financing international coproductions. She is the executive producer of the acclaimed series Miss Scarlet and The Duke (airing on PBS/Masterpiece, Alibi) as well as Clean Sweep (Sundance Now, RTE), an Irish thriller drama. She has multiple projects in development, among them The Bronte Girls with ZDF Studios and Fitz and Merryweather with Abacus Media Rights.
Yi Qiao
Director drama
ZDF Studios
Qiao is director drama at ZDF Studios, the commercial arm of German public broadcaster ZDF. There, she is responsible for sales and acquisitions of scripted projects across Scandinavia and worldwide English-speaking territories. Prior to joining ZDF Studios in February 2020, Qiao worked as a senior sales manager for Red Arrow Studios International in London, where she oversaw sales into the UK, Benelux, Scandinavia, Middle East and Africa.
Dermot Horan
Director of acquisitions and coproductions
RTÉ
Horan is director of acquisitions & coproductions at RTÉ, Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster. In his acquisitions role he has secured for RTÉ the likes of The Handmaid’s Tale, Killing Eve, The People Vs O.J.Simpson, The Big Bang Theory, and Homeland. He is also responsible for international coproductions, and pre-buys including the likes of Normal People, The Fall, and Death and Nightingales. He has recently put together the deals on behalf of RTÉ for Smother with BBC Studios and Kin with Bron Studios. He has the role at RTÉ to invest in Irish feature films, including the likes of Oscar nominated Brooklyn with Saoirse Ronan, Rosie with Sarah Greene and The Guard with Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle. He coordinates RTÉ’s partnerships with outside bodies and represents RTÉ in its dealings with the Screen Ireland (formerly the Irish Film Board), SPI (Screen Producers Ireland) and Animation Ireland.
Hot Properties: Started at Content London
Producers behind five shows that started their journey at Content London; Tehran, The Reindeer Mafia, Rana Naidu, Best Seller Boy and Mobile 101 discuss the project’s success.
Tehran and Bestseller Boy
Alon Aranya
President
Paper Plane Productions
Producer and writer Aranya has set up more than 50 scripted shows at US and international studios and networks. He founded Paper Plane Productions in 2018 for the purpose of producing and financing premium international drama series around the world. The company is currently collaborating with producers, writers and broadcasters in Ireland, Israel, Holland, Germany, India, Poland, Australia and the US to help co-finance and develop local shows for the global market. Aranya’s current international shows include Tehran, an Israeli Apple TV+ thriller which won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series and is in production on season three; Bestseller Boy, an original Dutch dramedy with CBS Studios International and the Dutch NPO in post-production; and The Vanishing Triangle, an original Irish crime-noir series in production. In the US, the company is filming season two of Your Honor for Showtime. Paper Plane will have four shows on the air in 2023. Aranya received his BFA at Tel Aviv University in Film and Television and later became a faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Reindeer Mafia
Liisa Penttilä-Asikainen
Producer
Kaiho Republic
Penttilä-Asikainen has produced short films, TV series and feature films since 2001. International coproductions include e.g. Lars Von Trier’s Dogville, Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato and Henk Handloegten’s Summer Window. Recent TV-series include Invisible Heroes (6 x 50´) which was awarded with Prix Europa award for Best European TV Fiction series in 2019.
Rana Naidu
Sunder Aaron
Partner
Locomotive Films
Aaron has lived and worked in India for the past 19+ years. Aaron is a principal with Locomotive Global Inc. (LGI), the media company he founded with its investors in 2012. LGI’s primary focus is to incubate and launch new India oriented media and entertainment businesses. Its present activities in India via Locomotive Global Media, its Indian subsidiary, include content development and production, programming sales and distribution, and television broadcast and OTT platforms. LGI was acquired in 2021 by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (NASDAQ: CSSE). LGI has several premium scripted projects in various stages of production, financing, and development, including Rana Naidu, the Hindi language adaptation of Ray Donovan, the long running and award-winning Showtime series. The series was commissioned by Netflix India and stars Rana Daggubati and Venkatesh. It’s planned for release on the global platform in first quarter 2023.
Mobile 101
Minna Haapkylä
Head of scripted content
Rabbit Films
Haapkylä has been the head of scripted content in Rabbit Films from 2018 and she has produced two feature films Mc Helper and Bubble and two long TV series Summer of Sorrow and Mobile 101. She is also an actress and has won several Finnish and International awards.
Drama Quarterly: Hot Properties
We shine a light on three upcoming dramas that all appear in the DQ100 2022/23, Drama Quarterly’s curated selection of the most exciting and ambitious new series coming up.
The Vanishing Triangle
Ivan Kavanagh
Writer, creator
Park Films
Kavanagh is a multi-award winning writer and director best known for Son (2021) The Canal (2014) and Never Grow Old (2019). He was born in Dublin, Ireland. 2021 saw the release of Ivan’s latest critically acclaimed film Son (Park Films), which he wrote and directed, a psychological horror film, starring Andi Matichak and Emile Hirsch. At the 2021 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival Kavanagh was presented with the George Byrne Maverick Award by the Dublin Film Critics Circle and at the Brussels International Fantastic Festival 2021, Son won the Silver Raven Award for Best Film. He has a number of feature film and TV projects in the works.
AnneMarie Naughton
Executive producer
Park Films
Dublin-based Park Films was founded in 2007 by Naughton, who produced Tara Road with Andie MacDowell, Situations Vacant, directed by Lisa Mulcahy, and four feature films with Company partner, writer/director Ivan Kavanagh ; Tin Can Man, The Fading Light World Cinema section, PUSAN International Film Festival, The Canal, premiered at TRIBECA, and most recent feature Son, starring Andi Matichak and Emile Hirsch., released by AMC / RLJ in US cinemas in March 2021. A founding member of the board of Women in Film & Television Ireland and a past participant of EAVE, Naughton has a Masters in Film from IADT.
Ana Habajec
Executive producer
Park Films
Habajec has 10+ years of experience in TV broadcast and production. Habajec has worked in Fremantle for eight years as executive producer and managing director (as a part of Nordics and CEE territories). While developing, pitching, producing and managing Fremantle extensive international slate (non-scripted & scripted shows), Habajec was looking for opportunities to secure commissions and develop co-production models to gain access to global content rights from producers and local studios with a focus of securing international co-productions. Habajec has joined Park Films in 2018. As a business partner and executive producer to expand the Companies TV pipeline by developing and producing high-end TV content. She’s currently producing new locally developed 6-part TV drama series, The Vanishing Triangle, and has completed a feature film Son which was shot in US.
Alon Aranya
President
Paper Plane Productions
Bio as before.
Dreamland
Clelia Mountford
Co-founder/executive producer
Merman
Having co-founded Merman in 2014, with co-founder Sharon Horgan, Mountford develops and produces a multitude of projects. Recently, Mountford executive produced dark comedy thriller Bad Sister for Apple TV+, which was co-written by Sharon Horgan and comedy-drama Dreamland for Sky, which stars Lily Allen and Freema Agyeman. Mountford’s other executive producer credits include Frayed, written by and starring Sarah Kendall, three series of the BAFTA-award winning comedy Motherland, including the critically acclaimed Motherland Christmas Special, Frank of Ireland, created by Brian and Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Moloney; Shining Vale, Housebroken, starting Lisa Kudrow, both series of This Way Up written by Aisling Bea and starring Bea and Horgan and the award-winning There She Goes written by Shaun Pye and starring David Tennant.
Ellie Haydon
Director for TV & Theatre
Merman
Heydon is a director/creator with a background in theatre and dramaturgy, with a passion for female-led stories, particularly in the comedy genre. For theatre, she has worked across a variety of genres at The King’s Head Theatre, The Pleasance, Brighton Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe and The Cambridge Theatre. Her move to screen work came in early 2016 with comedy web-series Digs, and since then she has made several multi-award winning shorts including: Fred Forever, a dark comedy about the confusing middle ground sandwiched between laughter and grief; and Pelicans, Best of Fest for BIFA-qualifying The Shortest Nights Festival, and Judge’s 6 at Exit6 Festival, starring Edward Bluemel. Heydon’s most recent short film, PRAGMA, was exec produced by Academy Award Winner Jason Sudeikis and stars 2021 SAG & Emmy Award nominees Nick Mohammed and Phil Dunster.
Boiling Point
Philip Barantini
Director, writer and producer
Barantini is an award-winning BAFTA and BIFA nominated director who started his career in 1996 as an actor appearing in Band of Brothers, Ned Kelly and Chernobyl. Barantini’s critically acclaimed second directorial feature Boiling Point nominated for four BAFTAs, including Outstanding British Film, and received 11 BIFA nominations. The film received six nominations at the 2022 The Big Screen Awards, including Best British Film of the Year and Breakthrough British Filmmaker. Barantini has recently finished directing all five episodes of ITV’s upcoming thriller series Malpractice and is in post-production on Accused, his latest film. He will soon commence filming a BBC-commissioned series sequel of Boiling Point.
Hester Ruoff
Producer
Ascendant Fox
Actress and producer, Ruoff, began her career on the other side of the camera producing a variety of award-winning shorts, including Bafta-longlisted Gerry starring Joan Collins. She moved into features with the ground-breaking one shot drama Boiling Point, starring Stephen Graham and its incredible ensemble cast, which received eleven 2021 BIFA nominations and 4 wins, and 4 Bafta nominations including an Outstanding debut producer. She recently merged her production company Burton Fox Films with producing partner Bart Ruspoli to become Ascendant Fox producing Gassed Up for Amazon Prime, their first movie in the newly formed company. They are now in prep for their debut TV series with The BBC and BBC Studios as a follow up to the film with Matriarch and Made up. Ruoff is passionate about making films that matter and creating a safe and inclusive environment on set that allows cast and crew to flourish in their gifting.
Bart Ruspoli
Producer
Ascendent Fox
Following a successful career as an actor, Ruspoli moved behind the camera in 2009. Since then he has been nominated for 2 BIFAs and a BAFTA. Recent projects include 2020 crime drama Villain starring Craig Fairbrass and Robert Glenister which hit British cinemas weeks before the global lockdown, and was met with a deluge of incredible reviews, culminating in being elected Critic’s Choice in the New York Times the week of release in the USA and topping the Netflix UK film charts for over a week. In 2022, one-shot drama Boiling Point – starring Stephen Graham – became the most successful British indie of the pandemic era, culminating in 11 BIFA nominations, winning 4 and 4 BAFTA nominations including Best Actor for Stephen Graham and Outstanding British Film. It has now been turned into a TV series by the BBC and will hit the small screen end of 2023.
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Chris Rice
Co-CEO
Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content) |
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Rob Wade
Chief executive officer
Fox Entertainment |
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Toby Gorman
President
Universal Television Alternative Studio |
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Kevin Beggs
Chair of the Lionsgate Television Group and chief content integration officer
Lionsgate |
Lauren Anderson
Head of AVoD original content and programming
Amazon Studios |
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Liam Keelan
SVP original productions, Europe & Africa
The Walt Disney Company |
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Álvaro Díaz
Director, non-fiction series, Spain
Netflix |
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Pauline Dauvin
VP programming, production and acquisitions
The Walt Disney Company, France |
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Alessandro Saba
Director original production
The Walt Disney Company, Italy |
Scott Herbst
EVP and head of scripted development
Lionsgate Television Group |
Tiffany Faigus
SVP, unscripted and alternative entertainment
ABC/Walt Disney TV |
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Mary Donahue
SVP, development and programming
The History Channel |
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Henrik Pabst
Chief content officer
Seven.One Entertainment Group |
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Rodrigo Mazon
EVP, general manager - SVoD
ViX+ at TelevisaUnivision |
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Sally Riley
Head of drama, entertainment and indigenous
ABC |
Adrian Padmore
Commissioning editor, unscripted
Channel 5 & Paramount+ |
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Carrie Stein
President, global scripted television
Dynamic Television |
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Sharon Hughff
Creative director of scripted television, UK
Entertainment One (eOne) |
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Mark Garner
EVP, content licensing and business development
A+E Media Group |
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Lauren Stein
EVP, drama development
Sony Pictures Television Studios |
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Sue Vertue
CEO, company director and executive producer
Hartswood Films |
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Patty Ishimoto
Executive producer and managing partner
Element 8 Entertainment |
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Manuel Alduy
Head of cinema and international development
France Télévisions |
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Karni Ziv
Head of drama and comedy
Keshet Broadcasting |
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Arron Fellows
Co-founder and creative director
Mindhouse Productions |
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Martha Holmes
Chief creative officer, natural history and science
Plimsoll |
Bill Malone
Director of content
Virgin Media Television, Ireland |
Jennifer Ebell
SVP, EMEA sales
Fifth Season (Formerly Endeavor Content) |
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Dominique Cutts
Director of documentary & factual commissioning
Red Bull Studios |
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Sened Dhab
VP streaming scripted
France Télévisions |
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Gary Woolf
EVP of strategic development
All3Media International |
Bea Hegedus
Executive managing director, distribution
Vice Media Group |
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Phil Gurin
President/ CEO The Gurin Company
Co-Chair FRAPA |
Jan Salling
Head of BBC Studios Nordics - formats and production
Co-chairman of FRAPA |
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Mike Beale
MD, Global Creative Network
ITV Studios |
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Yule Caise
Writer and co-founder
Behind the Billboards LLC |
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Amy Jephta
Writer/ director
Nagvlug Films, South Africa |
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Simon Mirren
Co-founder and showrunner
Case Closed Entertainment |
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Nick Bain
Creator/showrunner
Metacru/Behind the Billboards |
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NneNne Iwuji
Head writer and director
Chudor House Productions |
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Hugo Heppell
Senior portfolio manager - Indie Growth Fund
Channel 4 |
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Kelsey Balance
SVP, scripted programming
Universal International Studios |
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Adam Fratto
Executive producer/ scripted TV consultant
Chaotic Neutral Entertainment |
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Sam Bryant
Director, original content & head of comedy
Audible |
Lydia Shamah
Director of original content, scripted
Audible UK |
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Paul Gilbert
SVP international formats
Paramount Global Content Distribution |
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Paul Cohen
Group commercial director
Hat Trick Productions |
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Tejas Shah
SVP, commercial strategy & analytics
FilmRise |
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Georgia Arnold
Senior vice president, international social responsibility
Paramount |
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Ed Havard
Senior vice president, unscripted programming
Universal International Studios |
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Lee McMurray
Commissioning editor, factual entertainment
Channel 4 |
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Kate Teckman
Head of factual entertainment development and commissioning
ITV |
Joe Fraser
Producer and director
Baby Cow Productions |
Clare Laycock
SVP head of content, networks & streaming
Warner Bros Discovery |
Cat Lawson
Creative director
Remarkable Entertainment |
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Gave Lindo
Head of content programming
TikTok, North America |
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Amit Devani
Director of insights (EMEA)
Parrot Analytics |
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Sarah Peat
Executive producer
National Geographic Wild International |
Jenn Batty
European head of content acquisitions
Samsung TV Plus |
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Lucy Brodie
European manager programming
Seven Network Australia |
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Nick Lee
Head of acquisitions and international
Channel 4 |
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Alex Mathias
Death in the Family
Drama Series Script Competition |
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Michele Zatta
Commissioning editor, international coproductions
Rai Fiction, Italy |
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