Celine Coulson, Kathryn O’Connor will join the Leeds-based indie.
UK production company Duck Soup Films is adding former Film4 executive Celine Coulson and former Big Talk executive Kathryn O’Connor to its team as executive producers.
Coulson and O’Connor will join Duck Soup from June, reporting to the company’s founders Bekki Wray-Rogers, Libby Durdy and Jessica Hoyland.
Coulson will focus on the firm’s feature film slate, with O’Connor primarily working on TV drama. However “both will cross over as the company’s approach to development often mixes cinematic methods with TV traditions and is bespoke to each project,...
UK production company Duck Soup Films is adding former Film4 executive Celine Coulson and former Big Talk executive Kathryn O’Connor to its team as executive producers.
Coulson and O’Connor will join Duck Soup from June, reporting to the company’s founders Bekki Wray-Rogers, Libby Durdy and Jessica Hoyland.
Coulson will focus on the firm’s feature film slate, with O’Connor primarily working on TV drama. However “both will cross over as the company’s approach to development often mixes cinematic methods with TV traditions and is bespoke to each project,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Julia Oh, Lauren Dark and Ben Cohen are all promoted.
The UK’s Film4 has restructured its creative team following the departure of long-time senior commissioning executive Sam Lavender last year.
Commissioners Julia Oh and Lauren Dark have been promoted to senior commissioning executives and Ben Coren becomes the newly-created head of development. Oh and Dark will continue to commission new projects and oversee productions, and will also now co-manage the development team. Coren will oversee Film4’s development slate.
“Lauren, Julia and Ben are among the most talented executives I’ve worked with. Passionate advocates for the filmmakers and projects they support,...
The UK’s Film4 has restructured its creative team following the departure of long-time senior commissioning executive Sam Lavender last year.
Commissioners Julia Oh and Lauren Dark have been promoted to senior commissioning executives and Ben Coren becomes the newly-created head of development. Oh and Dark will continue to commission new projects and oversee productions, and will also now co-manage the development team. Coren will oversee Film4’s development slate.
“Lauren, Julia and Ben are among the most talented executives I’ve worked with. Passionate advocates for the filmmakers and projects they support,...
- 1/8/2020
- by 88¦Louise Tutt¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The scheme is open to writers, directors and producers who are Scottish residents.
Young Films Foundation’s second-annual residency on Scotland’s Isle of Skye welcomed mentors including producer Margaret Matheson, actor Joe Thomas, director Jonny Campbell, writers Olivia Hetreed (Girl With A Pearl Earring) and Francesca Gardiner and more to mentor six selected rising Scottish film and TV creatives.
Other top industry attendees included Dan MacRae (StudioCanal), Dionne Farrell (BBC Films), Celine Coulson (Film4), Isabel Davis and Sean Greenhorn from Screen Scotland, producers Beth Willis and Liz Lewin (Derry Girls).
The six participants, selected from more than 100 applicants, were:
Daisy Costello,...
Young Films Foundation’s second-annual residency on Scotland’s Isle of Skye welcomed mentors including producer Margaret Matheson, actor Joe Thomas, director Jonny Campbell, writers Olivia Hetreed (Girl With A Pearl Earring) and Francesca Gardiner and more to mentor six selected rising Scottish film and TV creatives.
Other top industry attendees included Dan MacRae (StudioCanal), Dionne Farrell (BBC Films), Celine Coulson (Film4), Isabel Davis and Sean Greenhorn from Screen Scotland, producers Beth Willis and Liz Lewin (Derry Girls).
The six participants, selected from more than 100 applicants, were:
Daisy Costello,...
- 7/2/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
An open casting is being held in Sheffield, where the story is set.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the hit musical about a teenage drag queen at a Sheffield school, is getting the film treatment from Sheffield-based Warp Films and Film4.
The musical opened in Sheffield in 2017 and is currently playing in London’s West End. It was nominated for five Olivier awards in 2018.
Warp Films are holding an open casting call from today (May 30) until July 22 for ‘thirty young people’ from the Yorkshire city to play the story’s central Year 11 class. All original cast have been screen tested...
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the hit musical about a teenage drag queen at a Sheffield school, is getting the film treatment from Sheffield-based Warp Films and Film4.
The musical opened in Sheffield in 2017 and is currently playing in London’s West End. It was nominated for five Olivier awards in 2018.
Warp Films are holding an open casting call from today (May 30) until July 22 for ‘thirty young people’ from the Yorkshire city to play the story’s central Year 11 class. All original cast have been screen tested...
- 5/30/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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