Baz Luhrmann to Lead Speakers at the Royal Television Society Convention 2022
variety.comK.J. Yossman Fresh from seeing “Elvis” become his highest-grossing film of all time in the U.K., Australian director Baz Luhrmann is set to be one of the leading speakers at this year’s Royal Television Society (RTS) conference in London, set to take place later this month.
Luhrmann, who has also created series such as “The Get Down,” will be in conversation with British host Edith Bowman, discussing “the power of creativity.” Also joining the lineup are head of interactive at BBC Studios Tom Burton, Vicki Dobbs Beck, VP for immersive content at Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB, BBC technology correspondent Marc Cieslak and Jan Koeppen, president of The Walt Disney Company EMEA.
Gama Gbio, development producer at Entertainment, Expectation, Isabelle Henriques, Co-CEO and COO of Klang Games; Nina Hossain, journalist and newscaster at ITN, Daisy Lilley, manager for Unscripted Series, U.K.
at Netflix; Kevin Lygo, managing director of media and entertainment at ITV; broadcaster and lawyer Rob Rinder, Jane Turton, RTS Chair and CEO of All3Media; media analyst Doug Wood and Natalka Znak, CEO at Remarkable TV Entertainment/Initial/Znak TV are all set to speak at the event too.
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