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Anikah McLaren Joins Higher Ground Productions As Head Of Film
The Obamas' Higher Ground Productions has appointed Anikah McLaren to the role of Head of Film, Deadline can exclusively reveal.
McLaren joins from the recently shuttered Participant, where she spent a little over five years as Executive Vice President of Narrative Film, co-running the department as a key member of the leadership team. Before that, she was hired as Senior Vice President at Fox Searchlight Pictures to focus on filmmaker-driven films, overseeing The Old Man and the Gun and My Cousin Rachel, while developing an eclectic slate of projects that included Eva Longoria’s directorial debut Flamin’ Hot. Currently, Higher Ground is developing Grant Singer’s Chicago-set crime thriller Dyersville, based on real events — a package acquired in a competitive situation — as well as the rom-com Fling, produced by and starring Lupita Nyong’o, which adapts the novel by J.F.
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