BBC Content Seeks Commissioning Director, BBC Film and Storyville
BBC Content material has marketed for the excessive powered function of commissioning director, BBC Movie and Storyville, a place previously held by Rose Garnett beneath the title director of BBC Movie. BBC Movie is the function film-making arm of the BBC, co-producing some 15 movies a 12 months. Latest successes embrace the BAFTA and Critics…
BBC Content material has marketed for the excessive powered function of commissioning director, BBC Movie and Storyville, a place previously held by Rose Garnett beneath the title director of BBC Movie.
BBC Movie is the function film-making arm of the BBC, co-producing some 15 movies a 12 months. Latest successes embrace the BAFTA and Critics Alternative awards successful “The Energy of the Canine” and “The Memento” and “The Memento: Half II.”
Storyville is the broadcaster’s flagship function documentary strand and showcases movies from world wide together with “Welcome to Chechnya” and “Collective.” It moved beneath the remit of BBC Movie in 2020. Storyville was led by Mandy Chang, till the chief left to hitch Fremantle as world head of factual. “Flee” govt producer Philippa Kowarsky was appointed commissioning editor, reporting into Garnett.
Garnett just lately resigned her BBC Movie place to hitch A24 and Eva Yates is at the moment serving as appearing director.
To fill Garnett’s function, the BBC is looking for “a number one business determine with an intensive editorial popularity for delivering distinctive movie and options documentary programming.”
“With an in-depth understanding of commissioning technique, the perfect candidate will convey a confirmed monitor report and an intensive vary of contacts, balanced with a ardour to innovate and discover new options,” the commercial states.
In the meantime, BBC Content material has appointed Anna Dickeson as commissioning editor, documentaries, working with Clare Sillery and Jack Bootle on documentaries, historical past, faith, science and pure historical past content material based mostly in Leeds. Dickeson might be answerable for constructing relationships with exterior companions and expertise within the North, as a part of the BBC’s dedication to growing portrayal of all audiences throughout the U.Ok. She joins from The Backyard, the place she helped handle the corporate’s growth into the North as artistic lead of The Backyard Yorkshire. Throughout this time The Backyard efficiently moved their flagship collection “24 Hours in A&E” out of London and secured a brand new fashionable factual collection fee that might be produced out of the northern workplace.
In addition to growing numerous collection together with the BBC’s “Grand Occasion Lodge,” Dickeson has produced and several other BAFTA successful and RTS nominated collection together with “Educating the East Finish” and “One Born Each Minute.”