EXCLUSIVE: The expertise company that reps Munroe Bergdorf has tied with Boldprint Studios to create a slate of digital content material.
Diving Bell, which lately launched Common Footage film Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf, will work with former Channel 4 leisure chief Phil Harris’s Boldprint “to form the following wave of culturally related, entertainment-led storytelling,” the pair mentioned.
Diving Bell and Boldprint, who share a workspace in Brixton, South London, mentioned they have already got a number of digital-first tasks within the pipeline, which they described as being “talent-led, culturally sharp codecs constructed for digital-first audiences.”
The transfer is the newest instance of businesses and conventional manufacturing homes combining. Diving Bell reps the likes of trans activist Bergdorf and feminist creator Florence Given. The company lately partnered with WME on a take care of S**t You Ought to Care About founder Lucy Blakiston. Diving Bell additionally struck a first-look take care of BBC Studios in 2022 and now we have requested the agency to substantiate whether or not this deal remains to be lively.
Boldprint was based by Taskmaster commissioner Harris in early 2024 and Fremantle instantly took a minority stake. The corporate made Swiped: The College that Banned Smartphones for Channel 4, an experimental documentary that sparked a nationwide dialog over teenage smartphone use.
Harris mentioned immediately’s deal is “rooted in shared values and inventive belief with Diving Bell’s unmatched intuition for expertise and our expertise in format and execution.”
Diving Bell co-founders Justin Girdler and Kim Butler added: “We now have cherished working throughout numerous content material alternatives with manufacturers, networks, and platforms alongside our expertise and have been searching for a approach to seize the bull by the horns and begin making extra content material ourselves. Boldprint share our ardour for clever, impactful storytelling.”
