The Asian producer Beach House Pictures (BHP) has added four more members to its executive ranks, including Suzy Hounslow, who has joined the team as executive-in-charge of production.<\/p>\n
In the newly created role, Hounslow will supervise and provide quality control for BHP\u2019s international output. Hounslow joins BHP after 10-plus years at Australia\u2019s Seven Network Studios, where she oversaw 500 hours of factual, reality and scripted shows annually, including My Kitchen Rules<\/em>. Hounslow will report to Co-Founder and Managing Director Jocelyn Little and Co-Founder and Creative Director Donovan Chan.<\/p>\n Appointed as head of factual, Rob Sixsmith is a BAFTA Award-winning showrunner from the U.K. who has excelled at the development and production of a diverse range of factual genres, which includes topics ranging from survival to science. Sixsmith has directed Bear Grylls and Levison Wood and helmed the Discovery US factual-entertainment series Gold Rush<\/em> and the BHP and Discovery International flagship series Ed Stafford: First Man Out<\/em>.<\/p>\n Also joining BHP is Geraldine Orrock, who has a reputation for being one of Australia’s most highly regarded entertainment showrunners. She is the driving force behind several award-winning programs in the country, developing and managing shows including The Voice<\/em>, First Dates<\/em> and My Kitchen Rules<\/em>. Orrock started up the Australian office of Warner Bros. International Television and was integral in developing a slew of shows there. As head of unscripted, Orrock will spearhead BHP’s development of original formats and key shows.<\/p>\n In China, BHP has enlisted Business Director Susan Zhao and her experience as an award-winning producer and branded-content expert across the industries of film production, advertising and marketing. An ex-Ogilvy and Leo Burnett senior executive, Zhao served as CEO of the production company that produced Mystery<\/em>. The series was directed by critically acclaimed Chinese director Lou Ye and won a Golden Horse and earned a nod for the Cannes Palme d\u2019Or Award.<\/p>\n \u201cBeach House Pictures is proud of its legacy as one of Asia\u2019s largest indie producers and we have an incredibly diverse team of talent here in-house,\u201d said Little. \u201cWith this impressive addition to our roster of production executives, we are ready to aggressively grow our business in the U.S., China and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo succeed in our rapidly changing global media landscape, it is vital to attract the best talents from a wide range of countries and cultures, to produce the most unique and exciting ideas,\u201d said Chan. \u201cThese new appointments level up our production capacity, bringing us into a new era of content creation for global markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Asian producer Beach House Pictures (BHP) has added four more members to its executive ranks, including Suzy Hounslow, who has joined the team as executive-in-charge of production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":13973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[350,4613,4614,4615,4616],"class_list":["post-13972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-beach-house-pictures","tag-geraldine-orrock","tag-rob-sixsmith","tag-susan-zhao","tag-suzy-hounslow","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n