Zeal Entertainment Boosts Sales Team

LONDON, January 21: Format distributor Zeal Entertainment,
part of the Digital Rights Group (DRG), has made three new appointments to its
international sales team.

New to the team is Paul Benson, who joins as an
international sales executive. Benson will be responsible for all sales in
Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Benelux. Prior to his appointment, Benson was
a sales executive at Electric Sky.

Annabel Laister also joins as an international sales
executive. She will focus her responsibilities on Australia, New Zealand,
Canada and Africa.

Rounding out the new hires, Alice Bennett-Leyh will serve as
the international sales and marketing coordinator. She will coordinate all
marketing for Zeal and all post-sales support for the production of formats
internationally. Bennett-Leyh most recently worked in a marketing and development
role for Encounters Festivals, which produced short-film and animation
festivals annually in Bristol.

“This is an
exciting time at Zeal Entertainment as we continue to expand our formats
catalogue, both through our contacts in the independent production sector and
the format rights portfolio recently taken on from DRG,” said Andrea Jackson,
Zeal’s managing director. “I am delighted to welcome Paul, Annabel and Alice to
the team and look forward to working with them to ensure that our formats are
taken to the widest international audience possible.”

—By
Ned Berke