The fund will provide one-off grants from £500 to £2,500 to active workers in film, TV and cinema facing significant financial hardship as a result of COVID-19 in the UK.
The executive will join global producer and distributor as Literary Acquisitions for their Global Drama division, as well as Lorenzo Mieli’s The Apartment (part of Fremantle) and Richard Brown’s Passenger Pictures.
The company has further expanded its unscripted interests by appointing Richard Bedser, the co-founder of All3Media-backed Two Halves Pictures, into a new London-based role.
Starring David Morrissey, Mackenzie Crook, Annabel Scholey and Eleanor Worthington-Cox, the series is a creation of Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth and James Richardson.