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Film4 Chairman Daniel Battsek Exiting UK Broadcaster With Ollie Madden Set To Take Reins
Channel4 chief executive Alex Mahon this morning announced the departure of Film4 Chairman Daniel Battsek who is set to return to the U.S. from March. Read the internal statement below. Battsek, fo…
Film4 is currently riding high off the success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, Jonathan Glazer’s critical hit The Zone Of Interest and Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex. Thanks to Daniel’s charismatic leadership and the outstanding team he’s built, Film4 has punched far above its weight – competing with the biggest international powerhouse studios for awards – and cementing its reputation as one of the most pioneering and influential film companies anywhere in the world. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest contrasts the hideous evil of Auschwitz with the banality of everyday life for the commandant’s family, and won the Grand Prix at Cannes.
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