{"id":15669,"date":"2019-01-29T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/former-gaumont-creative-exec-joins-mercury-filmworks\/"},"modified":"2019-01-29T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:43:10","slug":"former-gaumont-creative-exec-joins-mercury-filmworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/former-gaumont-creative-exec-joins-mercury-filmworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gaumont Creative Exec Joins Mercury Filmworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animation studio Mercury Filmworks has tapped former Gaumont creative executive Heath Kenny for the role of chief content officer.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny will be based in Paris and will work to identify and develop original properties as well as secure financing and greenlighting productions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, Mercury Filmworks has earned its impressive reputation for the incredible caliber and amazing accomplishments of its production services partnerships with content giants like Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, to name just a few,\u201d said Kenny. \u201cI\u2019m honored to assume the chief content officer role with the studio and spearhead the company\u2019s push into originals, which is the logical next step in expanding its operations and will serve as the ideal complement to its growing production service business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to announce our appointment of Heath,\u201d said Mercury Filmworks\u2019 CEO, Clint Eland. \u201cHe is the perfect creative executive to lead our strategic expansion into the originals space. He&#8217;s a talented artist and director, has a keen understanding of studio and talent dynamics, and has impressed us with his ability to quickly align people and drive to the heart of characters and stories. In a very short period of time, he has assembled a wonderful development slate that we are excited about rolling out in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animation studio Mercury Filmworks has tapped former Gaumont creative executive Heath Kenny for the role of chief content officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":15670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2302],"class_list":["post-15669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-mercury-filmworks","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Gaumont Creative Exec Joins Mercury Filmworks - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/former-gaumont-creative-exec-joins-mercury-filmworks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Gaumont Creative Exec Joins Mercury Filmworks - 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