‘The Father’ Producer Embankment Films Boosts Unscripted Division With Quartet of Key Hires
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Embankment Films has made four key hires to lead its unscripted division. Nick Taussig and Malcolm Neaum both join as producer, unscripted; Sophie Harmer as head of production, unscripted; and Henry Farrington as head researcher.
BAFTA and Grierson nominated feature documentary producer Taussig (“McQueen,” “Audrey,” “Killing Escobar”) teams with factual television series veteran Neaum (“I Shouldn’t Be Alive,” “Savile Row”) to produce varied unscripted series formats.
Harmer and Taussig produced “Call Me Kate” and “Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me,” celebrating the work of this year’s Oscar-winning director and writer.
Embankment’s credits include the Oscar-winning “The Father,” “The Son,” “Emma” and “Purple Hearts.” Embankment founders Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar said: “Our mission is to enable audience-facing storytellers to produce surprising and emotive entertainment.
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