EXCLUSIVE: Banijay is ramping up efforts to search out new properties for its array of scripted labels, appointing skilled trade exec Hannah Griffiths as its first ever Head of Variations.
Griffiths is already up and operating at Banijay. She has had a protracted profession in publishing and TV and previous to taking her new function was at All3Media, the place she was Head of Literary Acquisitions.
Her temporary at manufacturing and distribution large Banijay is to help the corporate’s scripted labels, working with rights holders to supply IP throughout books, podcasts, and different media.
Primarily based within the agency’s London workplace and reporting to Banijay UK CEO and Government Chairman, Patrick Holland, Griffiths will work with the corporate’s roster of UK labels, which incorporates Kudos, Mam Tor, Tiger Facet and up to date acquisition The Forge. Her IP recommendation may even be out there to producers throughout Banijay’s worldwide footprint.
“With our distinctive ranges of funding within the UK scripted enterprise over the past 18 months, Banijay is eager to offer our producers with the perfect help,” Holland mentioned. “Hannah is a novel artistic, capable of determine and assist safe the perfect IP (literary, cinema and factual) for the totally different corporations who want to work along with her.”
Griffiths added: “I’m delighted to be becoming a member of Banijay at such an thrilling time. The chance to work throughout a gaggle of such stellar scripted indies was irresistible.”
Previous to All3Media, Griffiths was at Faber and Faber as an editor, the place she curated an inventory of prize-winning writers together with Rachel Cusk, Eimear McBride, Max Porter and Miriam Toews. Later she took up the function of Writer of Fiction and Backlist, working with the authors and estates from throughout Faber and Faber’s record of literary greats – from Kazuo Ishiguro to PD James, Sylvia Plath, William Golding, and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Earlier in her profession Hannah was an agent at Curtis Brown, the place she labored with authors together with Bernardine Evaristo.