Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmLeigh Kittay has joined Black Bear as Head of Film. She most recently served that role for Noah Hawley’s 26 Keys, and was exec producer of Lucy in the Sky.
Before that she worked at Parkes+MacDonald Productions and Bad Robot.Ben Stillman, who has been at Black Bear since the company’s inception, will transition from feature films, where he was Senior Vice President, to run Black Bear’s newly created independent TV studio — Black Bear Television – as Head of TV.
Black Bear TV recently announced it had optioned the rights to Irish writer Naoise Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times, and has already commissioned close to a dozen projects this year under Stillman’s direction.
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