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MK2 Films Hires Former Protagonist MD Vanessa Saal to Advise and Scale Up Acquisitions, Co-Productions, Launch U.K. Presence (EXCLUSIVE)
MK2 Films has tapped Vanessa Saal, the former managing director at Protagonist Pictures, as executive consultant and U.K. lead.
During her career, she has worked on critical and commercial hits such as Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War,” where she first collaborated with the MK2 team; Taika Waititi’s “Hunt for the Wilder People;” Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project;” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Lobster;” Tomas Alfredson’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy;” the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis;” Jaume Collet-Serra’s worldwide box office hit “Non-Stop;” and David Heyman-produced “Paddington.” MK2 Films, meanwhile, has been thriving with a number of critical and commercial hits, such as Justine Triet’s Oscar-winning “Anatomy of a Fall,” Joachim Trier’s “Worst person in the World,” Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Corsage” and “Cold War,” among others. Current Films in production include Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Kleber Mendocza Filho’s “The Secret Agent” and Dylan Southern’s “The Thing With Feathers” starring Benedicte Cumberbatch.
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