Manufacturing powerhouse Fremantle has appointed Mark Reynolds as its world head of documentaries, reporting to Andrea Scrosati, group COO and CEO, Continental Europe.
The manager had joined the corporate as interim world head of documentaries in January. “In his function Mark will proceed to assist the expansion of the Fremantle International Documentaries enterprise, driving collaboration throughout manufacturing corporations and labels world wide,” the agency stated.
Previous to his work at Fremantle, a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, he was a guide advising producers and distribution platforms on programming, co-production and distribution methods. Earlier than that, he served as unscripted portfolio director at BBC Studios. Reynolds additionally labored at BBC Worldwide, specializing in the industrial and content material technique for factual programming for world distribution.
“Together with his intensive industrial experience within the unscripted style on a worldwide scale, Mark will proceed to spearhead our exercise within the premium documentary area, working with our world-class manufacturing corporations and labels to place Fremantle as one of many main gamers on this style,” stated Scrosati.
Reynolds stated he was excited to “collaborate with a number of the world’s best and most progressive storytellers throughout a various vary of critically acclaimed documentaries to proceed to develop a world-class popularity of high quality for Fremantle International Documentaries.”
Fremantle has made a lot of strategic investments to assist and bolster its progress technique inside the documentary and non-scripted market through its greater than 20 documentary labels, that are producing content material in additional than 12 territories. Amongst latest transactions are offers for Seashore Home Footage and Asacha Media Group, following the acquisition of 72 Movies, Wildstar Movies and Silvio Productions in 2022, in addition to the launch of premium documentaries label Plain final 12 months.