Netflix UK Chief Teresa Moneo Among Names Added To Edinburgh Film Festival Executive Board
deadline.comThe Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has added three to its executive board and appointed current trustee Amy Jackson to the role of Vice Chair in its latest round of expansion hires.
Teresa Moneo, Director of UK Film at Netflix, Isla Macgillivray, Partner at Saffrey, and Romana Ramzan, Producer at No Code Studio will join the board.
Members already include Andrew Macdonald of DNA Films, who is the chair, Peter Rice, former Chairman of General Entertainment at Disney and President of 21st Century Fox, and Vice Chair Amy Jackson, producer of Aftersun. “I am thrilled to be joining the EIFF Board and to be working with my fellow board members,” Moneo said. “Our collected experience from across the industry will ensure a bright future for EIFF as it champions new filmmaking voices from Scotland, the UK, and around the world.” This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival runs from Thursday 15 to Wednesday 21 August.
The festival will screen 37 new feature films, 18 World Premieres including 10 World Premieres competing for the new Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, 4 special retrospective screenings, 5 short film programmes including the new Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence competition, an in-conversation event with filmmaker Gaspar Noé.
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