‘My Octopus Teacher’ Indie CCO Allison Bean Moves To Wildflame; Out On Screen Fellowship; Banijay Format Acquisitions Role; ‘Firenado’; Discovery’s ‘Ice Cold Catch’ – Global Briefs
deadline.com‘My Octopus Teacher’ Indie CCO Allison Bean Moves To Wildflame Allison Bean, Chief Creative Officer of My Octopus Teacher producer Off the Fence (OTF), is moving to Welsh factual indie Wildflame Productions.
As Creative Director, Bean will drive Wildflame’s international push, with the indie having been behind the likes of Discovery+’s Brink of Disaster and Smithsonian Channel’s Secrets of the Celtic Grave.
Bean has spent 16 years with ZDF Enterprises-owned OTF, overseeing the likes of Oscar-winning feature My Octopus Teacher and Stan Lee’s Superhumans for History.
She was hailed as a “major figure in the international production and distribution industry,” by Paul Islwyn Thomas, Wildflame CEO, who “built the business from its inception to an internationally renowned powerhouse of factual production.” Queer Charity Out On Screen Launches Programming Fellowship EXCLUSIVE: Charity and queer arts organization Out On Screen has launched its inaugural Programming Disruptor Fellowship, a mentorship initiative for BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ film curators.
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