Edinburgh TV Festival Unveils New Leadership
deadline.comLondon 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.
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