‘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.”
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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...
- 12/13/2022
- by Max Goldbart, Zac Ntim and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Theater
British Singer and TV personality Peter Andre (“I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” “Strictly Come Dancing”) will make his West End debut as Vince Fontaine in an upcoming production of Jim Jacobs and Waren Casey’s stage musical “Grease,” playing at the Dominion Theatre starting May 17, with previews from May 3.
Directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Arlene Phillips, the show returns to the West End for the first time since playing at the Piccadilly Theater in 2007. Key casting includes Dan Partridge (“Hairspray”) and OIivia Moore (“Waitress”) as Danny and Sandy, with Jocasta Almgill (“Romeo & Juliet”) as Rizzo and Paul French (“Greese” U.K. Tour) as Kenickie.
“I’m beyond excited to be making my West End debut playing Vince Fontaine in ‘Grease’ at the beautiful Dominion Theatre,” said Andre. “’Grease’ is such an iconic musical and we can guarantee audiences will have the most...
British Singer and TV personality Peter Andre (“I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” “Strictly Come Dancing”) will make his West End debut as Vince Fontaine in an upcoming production of Jim Jacobs and Waren Casey’s stage musical “Grease,” playing at the Dominion Theatre starting May 17, with previews from May 3.
Directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Arlene Phillips, the show returns to the West End for the first time since playing at the Piccadilly Theater in 2007. Key casting includes Dan Partridge (“Hairspray”) and OIivia Moore (“Waitress”) as Danny and Sandy, with Jocasta Almgill (“Romeo & Juliet”) as Rizzo and Paul French (“Greese” U.K. Tour) as Kenickie.
“I’m beyond excited to be making my West End debut playing Vince Fontaine in ‘Grease’ at the beautiful Dominion Theatre,” said Andre. “’Grease’ is such an iconic musical and we can guarantee audiences will have the most...
- 2/3/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Off the Fence (Otf), the co-producer of Oscar-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher,” has revealed a strategy overhaul and expansion of its senior management team.
The move sees the U.K. and Netherlands-based factual specialist spin out its divisions into three separate business models with the aim of bringing distribution and production closer together, providing more streamer-friendly content and creating a new data-driven fast channels offering.
Bo Stehmeier, who has helmed the Zdf Enterprises-owned firm since January, said the move would help the company become a more agile, digitally driven entertainment business that would thrive an era of “monolithic companies.”
Stehmeier, the former president of Red Arrow Studios International, has also refined and categorized the genres which the company will offer. He said the focus is now on three core pillars: ‘Yesterday’ (history), ‘Today’ and ‘Tomorrow’ (science).
Overseeing all content at Otf is its current production MD, Allison Bean, who...
The move sees the U.K. and Netherlands-based factual specialist spin out its divisions into three separate business models with the aim of bringing distribution and production closer together, providing more streamer-friendly content and creating a new data-driven fast channels offering.
Bo Stehmeier, who has helmed the Zdf Enterprises-owned firm since January, said the move would help the company become a more agile, digitally driven entertainment business that would thrive an era of “monolithic companies.”
Stehmeier, the former president of Red Arrow Studios International, has also refined and categorized the genres which the company will offer. He said the focus is now on three core pillars: ‘Yesterday’ (history), ‘Today’ and ‘Tomorrow’ (science).
Overseeing all content at Otf is its current production MD, Allison Bean, who...
- 7/11/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
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