Channel4 chief govt Alex Mahon this morning introduced the departure of Film4 Chairman Daniel Battsek who is about to return to the U.S. from March. Learn the inner assertion under.
Battsek, former President of Miramax and Nat Geographic Movies, is leaving after an eight-year stint and is predicted to proceed working within the U.S.
Film4 Director Ollie Madden will step as much as lead the UK broadcaster’s movie division from March. He’ll take Battsek’s place on the Channel4 board.
Channel4 informed us this morning the transfer has nothing to do with impending cuts on the group and that Daniel’s departure is a “private determination” and a part of an extended transition between himself and Madden. The corporate stated there wouldn’t be every other instant structural modifications on account of the transfer.
Film4 is at present driving excessive off the success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Issues, Jonathan Glazer’s crucial hit The Zone Of Curiosity and Molly Manning Walker’s The way to Have Intercourse.
Alex Mahon’s Inner assertion:
“Hello everybody,
I’m writing to share that Daniel Battsek, Chairman of Film4, will probably be leaving us on the finish of March after a path blazing eight years.
Daniel has been a key associate to me, a trusted champion and buddy to numerous filmmakers and has pushed Film4 in the direction of ever-greater success.
Due to Daniel’s charismatic management and the excellent workforce he’s constructed, Film4 has punched far above its weight – competing with the most important worldwide powerhouse studios for awards – and cementing its popularity as some of the pioneering and influential movie corporations anyplace on this planet.
The present slate epitomises every thing Film4 stands for and is a tribute to Daniel, Ollie Madden and the workforce. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Issues, a fantastical comedy a couple of younger girl’s seek for liberation, received two Golden Globes final weekend for Greatest Movement Image, Musical or Comedy and Greatest Efficiency for Emma Stone, plus the Golden Lion at Venice. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Curiosity contrasts the hideous evil of Auschwitz with the banality of on a regular basis life for the commandant’s household, and received the Grand Prix at Cannes. Molly Manning Walker’s The way to Have Intercourse gave us a vibrant and complicated take a look at feminine friendship and consent, taking house the highest prize within the Un Sure Regard part at Cannes. Film4 broke its personal document on the 2023 BFI London Movie Pageant with 10 function movies, together with: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, exploring the seek for love and connection; Steve McQueen’s Occupied Metropolis, a documentary about Amsterdam below Nazi occupation; and the intimate story of a pregnant mom in Savanah Leaf’s debut function Earth Mama. Film4 additionally closed the competition with Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen, a high-energy drama set in a dystopian future London.
Ollie Madden, Director of Film4, has been working intently with Daniel for the previous six years, as Film4 has gone from power to power. I’m delighted Ollie will now lead Film4, in his function as Director of Film4. Ollie is captivated with our mandate to take dangers and innovate, and he has a transparent imaginative and prescient of how Film4 will proceed to help the perfect of British expertise.
I wish to thank Daniel and want him all the perfect for the longer term.”
