Jamie Stalcup

The Worldwide Audiovisual Women’s Association (WAWA) has partnered with MIP Cancun to celebrate its seventh anniversary and present the WAWA Woman of the Year Award at the tenth edition of the market in November.

Fremantle has tapped Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment alum Laura Florence as senior VP of global FAST channels.

S4C International has tapped Claire Urquhart to head up a new commercial content fund.

Fremantle has promoted Robert Zamboni to global head of branded content sponsorship to strengthen its global branded entertainment team.

Banijay UK has signed a development deal with Big Productions, co-founded by chef, TV presenter and grime artist Big Zuu.

The nominees for the 75th Emmy Awards have been unveiled, with HBO’s Succession securing 27 nominations, followed by The Last of Us with 24 and The White Lotus with 23.

SPI/FilmBox and France’s Free have inked a distribution deal for eight thematic SPI channels to become available via various packages.

Blu Digital Group and Atlantis Television have launched Blu Digital Group France to provide digital services and solutions to local French media companies and French localization services to clients globally.

Several changes have been made to the program structure for the 2024 edition of Berlinale, including dissolving Perspektive Deutsches Kino as a separate section and discontinuing Berlinale Series as an independent program.

The digital comics platform Manta has appointed Stephen Byong-Uk Lee as its chief business development officer.