EXCLUSIVE: 60 Days In indie Lucky 8 has hired former Beyond Rights and Hat Trick International sales exec Sarah Bickley has Head of Distribution ahead of MIPCOM next week.
The U.S. independent production company, which is behind unscripted hits including Netflix’s Unlocked: A Jail Experiment and A&E’s 60 Days In, will be in Cannes next week at MIPCOM with industry veteran Sarah Bickley.
She will be first Head of Distribution at Lucky 8, with the hire coinciding with an expansion into the global market. Bickley will join Lucky 8 Co-Presidents Greg Henry and Kim Woodard at MIPCOM, where Lucky 8 will have a slate of more than ten projects, most of which have premiered or are set to launch on major cable nets.
Blue Ant Studios will handle international distribution for Lucky 8’s latest feature documentary, Grizzly 399: Queen of the Tetons, which is a 60-minute version of the doc premiered on PBS in May.
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