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London Film Festival program boss Rowan Woods is to take on the Creative Director post at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
Woods is replacing the outgoing Stewart Clarke, while One World Media Director Gemma Bradshaw becomes Programmes Director at the TV Foundation, the charity which owns the Edinburgh TV Festival. She replaces the departing Sarah Vignoles.
Both Woods and Bradshaw will report to CEO Campbell Glennie, who oversees the festival and foundation.
Woods will curate the UK’s most prominent TV festival’s busy program and drive it creatively, coming at a time of existential change for the sector. She is a respected film and TV curator, acquisitions executive and festival consultant, responsible for launching and running the BFI’s TV-facing program since 2021 including screenings of Succession and Dopesick, episodic work by Yeon Sang-ho, Lars von Trier, Clea Duvall and Lulu Wang, and world premieres including Hugo Blick’s The English, J Blakeson’s Culprits and Theresa Ikoko’s Grime Kids. In addition to roles at the British Council, BBC Films and AMC Networks, she also spent five years at the start of her career as a radio and TV producer for the BBC’s flagship film and culture programs.
Bradshaw was previously director of the not-for-profit organization that supports journalists and filmmakers in reporting across the world – with a focus on growing their support for new talent covering global stories. She will take over the foundation’s The Network and Ones to Watch initiatives, which hand opportunities to underrepresented groups.
Campbell called the pair “established leaders in their fields who will bring a wealth of new experience to write our next chapter.”
“Rowan and Gemma are joining us at a time where we look forward to 2024 and our ambitious plans to make the Edinburgh TV Festival and the TV Foundation’s programmes even more inclusive and accessible, something I know they are both passionate about,” he added.
Woods described the fest as “one of the crown jewels of Edinburgh’s festival season, with an international reputation for agenda-setting debate and real cultural cut-through,” while Bradshaw called the foundation a place where “new ideas and stories thrive.”
The 2023 edition saw keynotes from the likes of Louis Theroux, Jesse Armstrong and Pearlena Igbokwe, along with the usual commissioner addresses from all the major UK broadcasting bosses. Next year’s fest will take place from August 20 to 23.
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