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United Kingdom
- Appointments
Catherine Catton
BBC
Commissioning Executive Producer
Nav Ramen
Sugar Films
Creative Director
Jill Offman
Comedy Central & MTV
Managing Director
Katie Goodson-Thomas
Fox Searchlight UK
Director Productions & Acquisitions
Dan Korn
STV Productions
Creative Director
Roy Ackerman
Pulse
Managing Director, Non-Scripted
Marina Williams
Endemol Shine Group
COO International Operations
Jonathan Hewes
Mentorn Media
Chief Executive
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EMEA & Asia-Pacific
- Appointments
Ross Crowley
Foxtel, Australia
Director of Content Strategy & Programming
Vivian Yin
Fremantle Media (China)
CEO
Amec Erol Us
Fremantle Media (Dubai)
Sales Director (EMEA)
Maxine Saada
Canal+ (France)
CEO
Malin Frenning
Teliasonera (Sweden)
SVP
Hannes Arnetsreiter
Vodafone (Germany)
CEO
Gabriela Vidus
RTL (Hungary)
CEO
Clive Spink
Pukeko Pictures (New Zealand)
CEO
Glen Sims
Fremantle Media (Singapore)
Director of Creative Content
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Americas
- Appointments
Betzalel Kenigsztein
Liberty Global
President & COO Latin America & Caribbean
Glenda Pacanins
Telemundo
SVP Programming & Content
Leonor Sotillo
Telemundo
SVP Programming & Strategy
Tracey Pakosta
NBCUniversal
EVP of Comedy Programming
Mark Herwick
EOne
Head of Current, US Alternative Programming
Matthew Greenfield
Fox Searchlight
EVP Production
Steve Louden
Roku
CFO
Rachelle Savoia
Turner Broadcasting
VP Communications
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What Will Television Be Like in 2020?
Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention
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As Patron members of the Royal Television Society, we’re very much looking forward to attending their Cambridge Convention this month which spans 16th – 18th September and is being chaired by BBC Director-General Tony Hall.
With an excellent programme of speakers, this years event puts a focus upon the future of television and how it will evolve over the next five years.
Speakers include Philippe Dauman (Chair, Viacom), Rona Fairhead (Chairman, BBC), Chris Bryant (Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport), Josh Sapan (Chair, AMC) and Michael Edelstein (President, NBCUniversal International Studios) to name just a few.
If you spot Alastair and myself, please don't hesitate in coming over to say hi!
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Latin America Searches
Based Miami & Mexico City
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 While summer is usually a quiet time in the headhunting world, this year has a very different feel as we are helping an International broadcaster to build an entire executive team in Latin America.
With some roles based in Miami and the others in Mexico City, they offer great opportunity to join a rapidly growing international media business.
The roles include:
- Commercial Director, Mexico City
- Chief Content Officer, Mexico City with extensive regional travel
- Head of Finance, Mexico City
- Head of Business Affairs, Mexico City
- Director, PR & Communications, Miami
- Global Business Strategy Director, Miami
- Head of Research & Insight, Miami.
Further roles in the Asia Pacific Region will be announced soon.
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Senior Executive Spotlight
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Stuart Shaw
Managing Director, International
RLJ Entertainment
In this month's Spotlight, Stuart Shaw, placed by Lumina at RLJ Entertainment, discusses RLJ's recent successes over the past year and the new British dramas making waves on the other side of the pond.
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 We'd like to give our latest recruit Natalie Ray a warm welcome to the Lumina Search team as she joins us as our Operations and Research Coordinator. Natalie has joined Lumina after spending a year in Paris teaching English.
Also speaking fluent Spanish, she graduated with a degree in Politics and Spanish and practised theatre, studying for a year in Buenos Aires in the process. She speaks Spanish and French at a professional level, and Italian just for fun, which is very useful for our recent searches.
She'll coordinate Lumina’s day to day operations and the research process, offering assistance on high profile searches. She also organises and manages events, several of which we have in the pipeline.
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Lewis Silkin Event
"TV Formats: looking ahead at the protection of rights"
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Our friends at Lewis Silkin are running a free event in October aimed at those who work in TV Content as it'll explore television format rights protection in today’s multi-platform/channel media landscape.
Taking place in London on 1st October, it is being held alongside FRAPA (the Format Recognition and Protection Association), and the IFLA (the International Format Lawyers Association) and will share insights into:
- Recent case law and the impact on worldwide commercial exploitation of TV formats
- Key deal and contractual points for the successful monetisation of formats
- The on-going European Commission-led public consultation on the scope of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive and the potential impact on the monetisation and protection of formats.
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Edinburgh TV Festival Report
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This August saw the 40th Anniversary of the Edinburgh International TV Festival and there were the usual heated discussions, industry veterans in attendance, entertainment and announcements that everyone has become accustomed to.
Discussion this year focused very heavily on the BBC and the potential funding cuts put forward by the Government, with Secretary of Culture John Whittingdale taking a public grilling and many putting on a united front for the future of our creative community.
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- Zurich Film Festival
September 24th - October 4th
“German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award... following the award ceremony, Mueller-Stahl will present Jim Jarmusch’s Night On Earth at the Arthouse Le Paris cinema on Sept 28.”
- MIPCOM 2015
October 5th - 8th, Cannes
“Through its world-class conference and event programme, MIPCOM offers the global media industry the hottest entertainment trends focusing on new creative excellence.”
- BFI London Film Festival
October 7th - 18th, London
“The festival will screen a total of 238 fiction and documentary features, including 16 world premieres, eight international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 archive films including five restoration world premieres. The line-up also includes 182 live action and animated shorts.”
- The Televisual Factual Festival 2015
November 11th - 12th, London
“The Televisual Factual Festival is the leading forum for business information and debate for factual television filmmakers, business executives and project leaders. If you work in the business of factual television there's only one event you simply have to attend.”
- American Film Market
November 4th - 11th, Santa Monica, CA
“Over 8,000 industry leaders converge in Santa Monica for eight days of deal-making, screenings, seminars, networking and parties."
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We move straight into Autumn with a ‘bang’ and are pleased to announce some exciting international projects. In particular we have been asked to find a complete senior executive team for an international pay-tv broadcaster who is expanding into the emerging markets - focusing initially on Latin America .
