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Join Media Parents Director Amy Walker as she digs into Development with some of the best… Guests include Candle Media’s Head of UK Development Miranda Peters and exRDF/ Electric Ray MD Meredith Chambers, discussing how to land indie meetings with your ideas, and how to approach a JV if that unicorn crosses your path.

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Meredith Chambers, Amy Walker and Miranda Peters - Media Parents In Development

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Surviving 9/11 Exec Miranda Peters is Head of UK Development at Candle Media True Stories. The label, which was launched in 2023 by former ABC News chief James Goldston, hired Miranda Peters from Top Hat Productions. Peters credit list also includes the BBC’s Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret and Paramount+’s The Box.

meredith chambers

Meredith Chambers was until recently co-MD at RDF, and before that co-MD at Electric Ray, where he oversaw shows like  Million Pound Menu (BBC2 and Netflix), Class of ‘92:  Out of Their League (BBC One and Netflix), Alone at Home (C4), Call That Hard Work (BBC One) and Celebrity Cooking School (E4).

Prior to this Meredith was Creative Director of Twenty Twenty where he created international hit First Dates (C4) and other successful titles including The Hoarder Next Door (C4) and My Transexual Summer (C4).

Earlier in his career Meredith was Executive Editor at BBC Wales where he created award winning shows including the BAFTA winning documentary ‘Between Life and Death’, and Commissioning Editor for Documentaries at Channel 4 where he commissioned and oversaw flag ship series including Wife Swap, The Secret Millionaire and Cutting Edge.

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Media Parents Director Amy Walker will chair Media Parents In Development. She alternated her production career with spells of physical recovery and mental stimulation in development. Having worked in factual and docs as a director, PD, commissioned development exec, and showrunner, Amy moved into Talent Execing. After a spell in commissioning at Discovery, she went on to showrun a BAFTA-nominated series for Channel 4, followed by series 1 of a now longrunning drama doc streamer series for Arrow Media/ Discovery.

A diversity and flexible working champion, Amy set up Media Parents, a selective TV jobsite, networking and training organisation. She designed the website in 2010, and has since supported the return and retention of hundreds of experienced TV freelancers.

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Our next event is online on April 1st, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Join us on May 1st for Media Parents Spring Drinks in Central London. A good time will be had by all. See Media Parents watercooler for the sign up link and watch this space nearer the time for guestlist.

January Drinks: Heads of Production from Raw Cut and Strawberry Blond, Tina Lohmann and Jess Hamilton meeting Media Parents freelancers in the crowd

Huge thanks to Film+TV Charity for hosting the last ones, we had a great time and made some great connections. If you would like to see our gallery for a flavour of what goes on, go here: January Drinks or here: Autumn Drinks. Look forward to seeing you there!

Our next event is online on April 1st, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8^th, there is a clarion call to creatives from several of this year’s longlisted BAFTA films, writes Media Parents’ Director Amy Walker. If you haven’t heard the call yet, it urges mid career (and later) creatives (women particularly, caregivers, creatives of all genders) not to give up on their creative calling, difficult though that may be. If you are feeling stuck reading this, rest assured you are in good company, and there are empathetic people cheering you on. You can read the Film + TV Charity’s recent Looking Glass Report (and get funding support) here. The secret of a sustained creative career isn’t always brilliance, it’s largely about not giving up, right?

Nightbitch is a dark, dark comedy starring Amy Adams, rising from the creative ashes of her lowest, lost moments of motherhood. You don’t have to be a mother or a middle aged woman to find yourself laughing out loud at this film that reflects most of our struggles at the moment. Adams’s character fights her situation, her husband, her heritage, her self – to rediscover self-expression. It’s not easy, it skirts insanity via magic realism, and – no spoilers here – it is a fight worth watching (and fighting)!

The Substance, if you haven’t already seen it, is a darker, Faustian dive into the extreme choices we may feel forced to make to maintain our later careers/ selves. And in The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson’s character Shelly grapples with society and her daughter’s condemnation for putting her now dying career in entertainment before motherhood. And for what? So interesting… Back in Europe (way, way back) Firebrand is about agency. Please watch it if you haven’t seen it, I imagine you will be cheering.

These powerful, funny, important films imprint on you. We need to sit exhausted and uncomfortable with the themes of resistance and persistence – if we can, we need to dig deep – and act.

If you can’t find work, create. You can create opportunities for work or meetings via our online Development Meet coming up on March 19th. If you are taking work outside TV to pay your bills, there is no shame in that. You can still say you work in TV even if you’re not right now, you have earned that through your previous experience. If you’re determined to get out or reinvent yourself, we have a great blog coming up that is going to inspire and empower you.

Even if you do none of the above, come for a drink at our London drinks on May 1^st. Inertia never helped anyone. Do whatever you need to pull yourself out of the hole. Creativity doesn’t have to be paid. If it makes you feel better to rest, rest. But if it makes you feel good to be creative, create.

If you would like to discuss anything related to TV work, you can log in and use the Media Parents watercooler (anonymously if you like) – request collabs, share inspiration, have a moan…

Our next event is on March 18th, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

It’s been an intense couple of months looking for work. So I rejoined Media Parents to attend last week’s January networking event, and to apply for jobs. I’ve had work through Media Parents in the past, and been to their networking events before, so despite the state of the industry, I felt confident I would feel welcomed rather than competed with, and would enjoy myself. At the event we introduced ourselves by name and job title around the room and I found myself listing a long list of potential job titles to a round of applause.

We all introduced ourselves to the floor at Media Parents January networking. It's really helpful for everyone to know who's who

At Thursday’s event Amy explained that freelancers applying for roles through Media Parents will be in a group of up to 10 applicants. Many jobs are exclusive, but where they are listed elsewhere, employers say they look at Media Parents applicants first. How do they know? Application mails via the site are branded. Why do they like it? Media Parents is the only selective jobsite, requiring freelancers (not just restricted to parents) to have at least three years TV experience before joining. So much less sifting for hiring companies. From attending the event I can vouch that most people have much more experience than three years. So Media Parents is win, win for freelancers and hirers.

Media Parents Jan Drinks provided a great opportunity to meet or reconnect with companies like Strawberry Blond

I just want to say thank you so much for the networking evening and for the work that you do at Media Parents. I am so glad I made the journey. I am just reaching out to the people I met there. I’d say that I picked up contacts from 30% of the people in the room, including some employers I would love to work with.

I did some more stats for myself which I found interesting and really clear. I thought I would share them with you. I usually go from job to job without too much of a gap. Or have done for many years.

Researcher Hannah Bairsto, seen here with HOP Tina Lohmann, said it was the best networking event she had attended because it was friendly and relevant

Here are my stats as a freelancer of 23 years in two months of job searching, December 2024 to Jan 2025, prior to joining Media Parents:

****Job applications: 24 – for PD/SD across ob doc/fact ent/talent led genres.

Average number of applicants: 200 – 300 for every job (guestimate from the large numbers of applicants per job on the large jobsite I’ve previously been applying through + assuming they are not exclusive to that site).

Number of interviews – 3 (12.5 % hit rate)

Number of jobs got: 1 and it has been delayed until end of 2025.

***Number of speculative reach outs to talent managers / people I don’t know - 20

Number of emails back – 5

Expressions of interest for future work – 5

****Number of existing contacts with actual real work on the horizon who would earmark me – 1

*** number of my industry contacts who have called me saying do I want work? – 0

This element has been wiped out and was always there before. Although it formed 40% only of my work contracts.

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Reason for these stats: My contacts are not in work, or have left the industry, or have many mouths to feed in terms of who they are hiring. I understand many jobs are not advertised (as backed up by yesterday’s Media Parents email and ring round) – but, I agree with Talented People’s Industry Health Check that broadcaster and streamer-approved candidates are going from one job to the next. If the same people are working on what is being commissioned then like any eco system it will start to fail or massively diminish and no longer flourish. Even the bits that are left.

Prognosis:  Doing what I did before is unlikely to find me work on the basis of these stats. Hence joining Media Parents to increase my reach and opportunities.

Actions:

• Apply for jobs on a platform with a great reputation / less competition
• Meet new people and build new relationships (watch out for Media Parents next event which will be online on Feb 19th)
• Write for this blog which has a reach on social and direct mail of 35K people in TV. I’ve made this post anonymous as I feel it’s a bit contentious, but I will be writing, I will

Our next event is on Feb 19th, see mailing list for more details. Scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers, join here:https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/signup/?t=freelancer

Media Parents was delighted to hold January Drinks on Thursday 30th Jan, hosted by Film + TV Charity in their glorious Central London building. The wine sponsors for this event were https://storytailors.tv/ – thank you!

Heads of Production from Raw Cut and Strawberry Blond, Tina Lohmann and Jess Hamilton meeting Media Parents freelancers in the crowd

What happens at Media Parents drinks? There’s no agenda! We are keen to get TV companies, freelancers and organisations in a room to catch up. If it’s your first time at an event we make an effort to meet you, and introduce you to other people who could be useful to you to know. If it’s not your first time at a Media Parents event, we are pretty confident you loved it the first time!

PD Sam Lang with Comedy Producer Anna Coane

Curve Media's Head of Production Ruth Cody and Exec Claire Simpson worked the room

Story Films Production Exec Donna Blackburn introduced the company's slate, with StoryTailors' Martin McAleese, Curve Media's Claire Simpson, EdTVFest's Dulcie Bushill and freelancers looking on

Strawberry Blond MD Steve Wynne made it back from Leeds

PM Amy Swan successfully navigated a career move from editorial into PMing global series, seen catching up here with Media Parents Line Producers Flo Crum and Katy Southwood

New contacts made and swapped between PD Kasia Uscinska and Editor Liz Convey

Film + TV Charity Community Development Manager Lucy Maxwell introduced the space, counselling and financial support that is offered, see below...

January Guest List

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Michele Kimber: PM

Read Michele’s latest blog

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/18138/michele-kimber

Anna Coane: SP / S Edit Producer

Read Anna’s latest blog

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/2251/anna-coane

Anika Pilnei: EP / PD

Read Anika’s latest blog

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/18539/anika-pilnei

Daren Tiley: offline editor

Read Daren’s latest blog

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/9614/daren-tiley

Flo Crum : Production Exec

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/5245/floury-crum

Katy Southwood: Line Producer/Production Executive

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/18573/katy-southwood

Richard Hughes: Shooting PD and DOP

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/6200/richard-hughes

Tom Colvile: Shooting PD https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/7749/tom-colvile

Anthony Willis: PD / Writer / Editor

Read Anthony’s latest blog

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/18343/anthony-willis

Claire McMahon Brown: Snr Producer / Edit Producer

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/15530/claire-mcmahon-brown

Jules Seymour: SP

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/126/jules-seymour

Kasia Uscinska: PD / Edit Producer https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/1582/kasia-uscinska

Katie Rice: PD

https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/10020/katie-rice

Liz Convey: returning offline editor

Stephen Mizelas: Director / SP

Sam Lang: PD https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/freelancers/917/samuel-lang

Matt Currington: S/PD

Avigail Cenci di Bello: Producer / Writer

Hannah Bairsto: Researcher

Gaby Koppel: SP

Tom Ranson: Director

Quinton Smith: Editor

Barney Snow: S/PD

Janet Awe: Development/ Producer

The Film and TV Charity supports everyone working behind the scenes in film, TV, and cinema, including full-time staff, freelancers, writers, production teams, and more. It offers a 24/7 confidential support line, legal and financial guidance, Stop-Gap Grants, a Bullying Advice Service, and free counselling. The Charity is also working to change the culture of our industry,  providing resources like the Whole Picture Toolkit for mentally health productions, financial guidance and wellbeing advice, as well as promoting equity and inclusion across the industry. For more information, visit its website or call 0800 054 0000. You can also sign up for its monthly newsletter for updates on services, events, and opportunities. Every day at Storytailors is a thrilling ride—we’ve set up Keanu Reeves to race through the Slovenian countryside, transformed a Romanian salt mine into a playground for MrBeast, and ensured Ford’s latest EV glides effortlessly through Bhutan for Amazon Prime. With a network of over 1,500 vetted media professionals across 150+ countries, we deliver everything from full production to local access, film permits, crew hire, and logistics for entertainment, documentaries, and drama. Our clients include leading indies like the BBC, Plimsoll, Nutopia, and Box To Box, as well as major streamers like Netflix and Disney. https://storytailors.tv/work-with-us/

At Media Parents we’ll do anything we can to help TV  freelancers work, and TV companies find great freelancers. Join us! Message via our contact button for returns for this event.

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Tinopolis talent exec Katie McAfee won our hearts at Media Parents Autumn Drinks! First by being there and being fun, meeting people irl and via our zoom link up – and secondly by offering this brilliant December CV Surgery!

Katie McAfee zooms with remote Media Parents members at our Autumn Drinks. Get your CV in front of her this December

Twelve lucky Media Parents members will have the chance to send in their CVs to Katie via Media Parents by the end of November. Then on December 5th Katie will offer each person five minutes of tailored advice on zoom. If you would like to take up this amazing offer please join Media Parents and see the watercooler for event details. Sign up quick!

tinopolis

Katie McAfee the Talent Exec for Tinopolis Factual which includes the production companies Mentorn Media, Firecracker Films and Pioneer Productions – all making content across the factual spectrum for UK and US broadcasters. Some of our productions include:

Traffic Cops, Inside the Force, Question Time, Emma Willis Delivering Babies, Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over, Open House the Great Sex Experiment, Mother Undercover, Gold: a journey with Idris Elba….

To find out more about the event and book in, see the watercooler at https://www.mediaparents.co.uk/

Our next event is on Dec 5th, scroll down the blog for more info www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. For free events for subscribers go here: https://blog.mediaparents.co.uk

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for Media Parents Autumn Drinks – we had a great time! Freelancers met with hirers including ITN, All3Media, Dragonfly, Yes Yes Media both in the room and live from the event on zoom. We were so well looked after by the ClearCut Pictures team led by Rowan Bray and Phil Knowles – thank you! Watch this space for more, join us at Media Parents to join in!

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Big Fish Little Fish Head of Children's and Young Audiences Ros Attille has a serious discussion about fashion with the ClearCut team. Richard studies the floor

Dragonfly's Head of Talent Gayl Paterson chats with freelance PD Tom Colvile

“Thank you for a lovely evening!” Jo, Exec Producer

Freelancers Mav Brown PM and Tom Colvile, with Story Films' LP Donna Blackburn

All3Media's Annie Conlon, centre, and PM Michele Smith left.

“Glad it was fun,  it felt very retro to be meeting in person!   I think it was a mixture of reassuring those who are looking for work and networking for those in work, seemed a really positive event.” Rowan, ClearCut Pictures

Producer Katie Flamman with Offline Editor Daren Tiley, very pleased to be back on the blog after all this time. Editor Liz Convey behind

PD Lorraine Molloy, left, made it all the way from Cornwall. PD Heidi Perry with ClearCut MD Rowan Bray. Thank you so much for lovely hosting

“Thanks for a brilliant meet up last night, it was really nice to catch up with some familiar faces, and meet some new ones too. And it was so nice of Clear Cut to host again.” Anna, Producer / SP

Huge thanks to Offline Editor Alex Kirkland who hosted a simultaneous zoom from the event, joined by freelancers and companies

Tinopolis' Katie McAfee was no sooner through the door than she was zooming - thank you Katie

“It was great to have you around and I’m glad everyone enjoyed themselves. Was good to see everyone get over the initial awkwardness and socialise.” Phil, ClearCut Pictures

Director of Production Sarah Buckenham from Yes Yes Media meets with a returning freelancer

Thank you Zara McFadden ITN for making everyone laugh on zoom

“Great to meet the other night. Really good event and good energy in the room!” Jim, SP

I love this pic of Producer Julie Dawson-Wills

Box to Box's LP Emily Freshwater and Scripted PM Richard Godfrey had a laugh with the zoom attendees

“This is just a quick note to how much I enjoyed yesterday evening’s Autumn Drinks at ClearCut Bloomsbury. Thank you for arranging the evening and making sure that I was meeting other invitees that might be relevant to my career.” Richard, PM

“A quick thank you for organising the event last night. It was great (and a bit strange) to be among so many people. And thanks also for all you’re doing to support everyone just now.” Tom, SP

Media Parents' Amy Walker with returner Steph Carpanini - thank you Jo Woolf for the photo!

A good time was had by all. It can be a lot to get to an in person event after working remotely, or looking for work for a while. The energy in the room was great, and the garden was good to escape to too!

“Thank you so much for organising such a lovely event last night. It was so nice to meet yourself and so many others in real life!

Thanks also very much to Clearcut for hosting – and I’m so sorry that we outstayed our welcome! How did it get to 9pm so quickly?!” PD, Eliza

Spot the back of Little Bird TV SP / Exec Matt Holden. Thanks Jules Seymour for the photo

Yes Yes Media's HOP Sarah Buckenham with Lucy Maxwell, Community Development Manager from Film + TV Charity. FTVC have available funding for freelancers who need stopgap help to pay rent and bills, and also have free available counselling support for freelancers - get in touch with FTVC to find out more

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for Media Parents Autumn Drinks – we had a great time! Freelancers met with hirers including ITN, All3Media, Dragonfly, Yes Yes Media both in the room and live from the event on zoom. We were so well looked after by the ClearCut Pictures team led by Rowan Bray and Phil Knowles – thank you! Watch this space for more, join us at Media Parents to join in!

www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in TV

Back to School comes with its added pressure of Back to Work for some of us, writes Media Parents Head of Talent Amy Walker. Media Parents is offering subscribers brilliant free coaching workshops, online and in person, to make sure your online applications hit the spot. Participants are a mix of freelancers looking to improve their applications and returners working on their application tactics for relaunch. It’s always a friendly and supportive group online and in person.

Join Media Parents for jobs, masterclasses and networking

Join us on Friday September 20th at 10:00 for a cracking overview session : Ace Your Applications – and get (back to) work. The 45 minute online / in person event will be led by Media Parents’ Amy Walker. The session will be followed at 11:00am by a second online / in person event focusing on TV CVs. This small interactive event has big ambitions to help you navigate best practice in TV CVs and gives us the chance to workshop. Led by Media Parents Head of Talent Amy Walker it is one in a series of events giving an overview of TV applications – cover letter, CV wins, Zoom presenting and interview tips – so you nail the opportunities that are out there.

Amy Walker leads Media Parents freelancers in an Ace Your Job Application Masterclass online

To find out more and sign up to sessions go here. All sessions are free to Media Parents subscribers – if you are not yet a subscriber go here to subscribe, or message us here for more information.

Friday Oct 11th Event

Click here for a ticket to Ace Your Applications General Event 10am Friday 11th Oct

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1014480196577

Click here for a ticket to Interviews and Networking Masterclass Friday 11th Oct 11am

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interviews-and-networking-friday-11th-oct-ace-your-job-application-tickets-1014508651687 As this session is also about job interviews please bring a list of questions you anticipate at a job interview.

If you would like to join Amy Walker in person for this final training event, you can book a place at no extra cost in the gorgeous private room at renowned gastropub The Crown, Hastings. Taking a day out by the sea can be a great way to clear your mind and bring a fresh perspective to your career path. The food at The Crown is great so I highly recommend booking for lunch afterwards. Email for details.

Events are free to subscribers, informal and in a small group. You can join camera on or cam off and ask questions in the chat. If you are not a subscriber or you have questions in advance hit us up via the contact button on Media Parents website.

Keen beans can prep in advance for the event by reading and working with Media Parents CV blog with tips from loads of industry employers, and Amy Walker and TV friends’ cover letter tips.

If you’re looking for work at this point and some extra support would help see the links below for the Film + TV Charity’s FREE Counselling service. Having worked with and interviewed many returners I would urge you to talk through the barriers of getting back to work before your interviews, so these feelings have been aired and are not the focus of your interview conversation. This helpline from Film + TV Charity 0800 054 0000 is not The Samaritans – it’s for people who want to talk and offload the problems of TV, or not working in TV, yet. https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/get-support/get-help-now/

Media Parents Autumn Drinks in London Tuesday October 15th

www.mediaparents.co.uk - the jobs and social networking site for short term, part time, job share and regular hours jobs in media. Join our latest event on Friday 11th October from 10am til midday.

Telemetry Media’s Matt Ralph in conversation with TV Switch Up about leaving TV for corporate work. Matt kindly got in touch to suggest sharing his experience with freelancers and to say thanks to Media Parents for helping him relaunch in TV when he returned to the UK from Australia. Our pleasure, thanks for paying it forward!

Matt Ralph from Telemetry Media

Matt’s creative career began in television production in the late 1990s. Since then, he has had the opportunity to develop, write, produce, shoot, direct and edit programmes and series, for international broadcasters, including the BBC and the Discovery Channel.

A founding member of the senior management team at the UK’s multi award-winning digital channel, BBC Three, Matt specialised in multi-platform content strategy working closely with social, marketing, production, development and channel scheduling teams to ensure maximum audience engagement.
Matt joined Anglo American in March 2020 from Brunswick Creative, where he worked on client accounts ranging from Nokia to HSBC. Matt lives in South-West London with his wife, two daughters and a Sprocker-poo called Monty, he is an Australian dual citizen and holds a First-class honours degree in Fine Art Sculpture.

How can I present my CV and skills? How can I get connected? Is it a one way street?

By TV Switch Up – A Telly Mums Group

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Arrow Media x Media Parents Production Networking
Thursday July 14th 12 – 1:30pm online

Carrie Pennifer meets Media Parents Archivist Tracey Li at Media Parents previous networking

Arrow Media is partnering with Media Parents to meet PRODUCTION TALENT ONLINE on Thursday 14th July from Midday – please come.

If you are a Production Manager, PC, Production Exec or Line Producer in unscripted, available now, soon, or just keen to meet the Arrow team, please RSVP to events@mediaparents.com with your CV and availability by July 13th, the sooner the better, and we will send you zoom details.

Please title your email Arrow Media Parents Networking.

The Arrow team is keen to support flexible working and jobshare on their productions, so this is a great opportunity to discuss that and meet the team including Heads of Production Carrie Pennifer and Stephanie Mavropoulos, Head of Talent Julia Hardwell, Talent Coordinator Emily Charalambides, and Media Parents’ Amy Walker.

Arrow Media's Joint Head of Production Carrie Pennifer

Carrie Pennifer, Head of Production

Carrie joined Arrow in 2012 as Production Manager on the Discovery series Ultimate Warfare. She went on to manage numerous successful series and one-offs including three seasons of the global hit observational documentary Ultimate Airport Dubai for National Geographic before being made Production Executive in 2016.

During her near decade at Arrow, she has worked across Arrow Media and Arrow Picture’s entire slate of projects overseeing up to 70 hours in production simultaneously as well as those in development. These have been for all the major international broadcasters and include such iconic projects as Animal Fight Night, America in Color, See No Evil, Extreme Rescues, Speed, 9/11: Escape from the Towers and I, Sniper. In the run up to being made Co-Head of Production, Carrie has seen several projects successfully through the Pandemic. These include Arrow Media’s Shark Week documentary Rogue Tiger Shark: Hunt for Lagertha; and, for Arrow Pictures, the landmark feature documentary Generation 9/11 and Sky’s upcoming series on HIV/AIDS in Britain, Positive.

Arrow Media's joint Head of Production Stephanie Mavropoulos

Stephanie Mavropoulos, Head of Production

Stephanie Mavropoulos joined Arrow when it was formed by Tom Brisley, Iain Pelling and John Smithson in 2011, and has led its production teams for over a decade. Stephanie leads a project from commission to delivery, ensuring budgets are met while supporting the high editorial ambitions of the company.

She pioneered the production style that delivers returnable high-volume hits like the 20-parters of American Monster, See No Evil and Body Cam. Stephanie works across Arrow’s flagship feature length crime series, Mind of a Monster and is responsible for their new 3 x60 mini-series brands. She has also worked on notable series including two-hour event doc Live From Space for Channel 4 and National Geographic; and BBC2 and Smithsonian co-production 747: The Plane That Changed The World. In 2020 she was the Co-Producer for Arrow Media’s Emmy-nominated theatrical release feature, Under The Wire.

Head of Talent Julia Hardwell

Julia Hardwell, Head of Talent

Julia started her TV career on Children’s classics such as Art Attack, Newsround and Blue Peter. From Production Manager at the BBC, she moved into Talent Management at ITV and then Studio Management where she oversaw studio facilities for shiny floor live and pre-recorded productions such as Later with Jools Holland, Take Me Out and Catchphrase. In 2019, Julia joined Arrow as Talent Manager, working closely with Talent Consultant Dawn Beresford  across all aspects of recruitment, training and development. Recently armed with her CIPD HR qualification, Julia aspires to support all levels of talent with their career development at Arrow.

Talent Coordinator Emily Charalambides

Emily Charalambides, Talent Coordinator

Emily began her career in Television for the business news channel, CNBC Africa in South Africa.  The experience fuelled her desire to continue within the TV world and she made her move to London to expand her skillset.  She landed in Specialist Factual/Factual, starting out as an Executive Assistant before moving over to Production. She has experience working on flagship returning formats such as BBC2, Inside the Factory and BAFTA nominated, C4’s The Dog House.  Armed with transferable production skills, she recently joined Arrow International Media as Talent Coordinator and assists the Head of Talent, Julia Hardwell with recruitment across all roles.

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