Former Heyday President Tom Winchester’s Pure Fiction Hires – Briefs – Deadline

Former Heyday President Tom Winchester’s Pure Fiction Staffs Up

Former Heyday Tv President Tom Winchester’s fledgling See-Noticed Movies-backed indie Pure Fiction Tv has signed Euston Movies and City Myths Movies execs in its first main play. Euston’s Laura Klimke joins as Government Producer and former City Fable Improvement Exec Yolanda Lee turns into Improvement Government. Previous credit for the pair embody ITV’s The Sister, BBC Three’s Wreck and Warfare of the Worlds. Pure Fiction has additionally employed Improvement Coordinator Musanna Ahmed. The trio will work on a slate targeted on “status industrial content material,” searching for IP and unique concepts. The corporate was launched earlier this yr by Winchester, backed by Energy of the Canine producer See-Noticed and expertise company Hamilton Hodell. Winchester spent three-and-a-half years as President of David Heyman’s Heyday, overseeing the likes of Netflix’s Clickbait and hiring groups in London and LA. Of the hires, he stated: “Their wealth of expertise and creativity coupled with our like-minded spirit and shared ardour for locating bold, provocative, and entertaining tales, will assist solidify our place as the house for a brand new era of inventive visionaries.”

Peter Capaldi To Obtain Lifetime Gong At BAFTA Scotland Awards

Peter Capaldi is to obtain BAFTA Scotland’s Excellent Contribution to Movie & Tv award. The Physician Who star has labored throughout the stage and display however is finest recognized for his performances as spin physician Malcolm Tucker in Armando Ianucci’s political satire The Thick of It, and for his time within the Tardis because the twelfth Physician. “I’m deeply touched to be receiving the BAFTA Scotland Excellent Contribution to Movie and TV Award,” stated Capaldi, who will be seen at current in Amazon Prime Video’s The Satan’s Hour. The BAFTA Scotland Awards will happen Sunday 20 November in Glasgow and will likely be hosted by journalist and broadcaster Edith Bowman.

The American French Movie Competition (ex-COLCOA) Unveils 2022 Awards

Emmanuel Mouret’s Diary of a Fleeting Affair and Eric Gravel’s Full Time have scooped the highest prizes on the twenty sixth version of The American French Movie Competition, previously often known as COLCOA. Mouret’s relationship drama Diary of a Fleeting Affair, which debuted in Cannes Official Choice this yr, gained the Critics’ Selection award for finest movie. Gravel’s Full Time was feted with the Viewers Selection award. The drama starring Laure Calamy as a single mom attempting to get a job interview debuted in Venice Horizons in 2021, successful finest movie and actress. Michael Mann, member of the DGA and the Franco-American Cultural Fund Board, which runs the competition, introduced the prizes at an awards ceremony in Paris on November 2.  The competition ran October 10-16 in Los Angeles and introduced 75 French movies and sequence.

Business Boss Joins Kelly Webb-Lamb’s Mothership

Former Channel 4 Deputy Progams Boss Kelly Webb-Lamb’s Mothership Productions has taken its subsequent step by signing a Director of Business and Enterprise Affairs. Donna Gomes will drive the non-scripted indie’s industrial technique, work on industrial offers and lead on enterprise affairs and authorized. The previous Head of Business, Rights and Enterprise Affairs at BBC Studios Pure Historical past Unit has been plying her commerce within the house for greater than 20 years. The Circle commissioner Webb-Lamb launched Mothership earlier this yr with former Channel 4 commissioners Gilly Greenslade and Charlotte Desai and has already secured backing from BBC Studios. “Donna brings along with her big expertise in delivering bold inventive content material to the worldwide market, and I’m so impressed along with her starvation and drive to be commercially inventive and strong,” stated Webb-Lamb.

Showtime’s ‘{Couples} Remedy’ Heads To New Zealand

{Couples} Remedy is heading to New Zealand. Paramount World Content material Distribution has struck its third deal for the Showtime doc sequence and the present will likely be produced domestically by Warner Bros. Worldwide Tv Manufacturing NZ for Warner Bros. Discovery’s BVOD platform ThreeNow and linear channel Three. Casting will start subsequent yr on the format that sees world-renowned psychologist Dr. Orna Guralnik deftly information {couples} by struggles in real-life remedy periods. The format has already offered to Israel’s Kan and Paramount+ in Australia. Laura Burrell, Paramount World Content material Distribution’s VP of Worldwide Codecs, stated it has resonated “past all of our expectations.”