This is your opportunity to connect with one of the most influential figures in the UK film and television industries, Stewart Till, who is the President of Till Entertainment, and is currently based on the East Coast and is developing a number of feature films and scripted television dramas. You'll have a chance to pitch creative ideas and gain insight into navigating the entertainment business both in the US and abroad.
Stewart Till, as President of Till Entertainment, is currently based on the East Coast and is developing a number of feature films and scripted television dramas. As well as consulting for clients in Los Angeles and Dubai, including MBC Studios, for whom he is their Head of Sales and Marketing. From 2011 to 2015, he was Chief Executive and subsequently Board Member of Sonar Entertainment (previously known as Hallmark Entertainment), the LA and New York-based television production and worldwide distribution company. As Chief Executive, he brought the company into profit. He was responsible for getting into production for Tom Hardy’s Taboo, South and Shannara (with Al Gough and Miles Millar attached as showrunners). He also developed The Son (based on Philipp Meyer’s award-winning novel) with AMC. For five years from 2010, he was Chair of Creative Skillset; whose mandate was to establish and manage the skills and training agenda for the UK’s creative industries. From 2009 to 2012, Till was Chief Executive of the UK distribution and worldwide sales company Icon UK, whose titles included A Single Man, The Road, Drive, and Emilio Estevez’s The Way. From 2004 to 2009 he was Chairman of the UK Film Council; the body established by the Government to help grow the British film industry and to manage the lottery monies and grants they allocated to the UK film industry. From the end of 2002 until the end of 2006, Till was Chairman and CEO of United International Pictures (UIP), the international joint venture of Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures, which was the world’s leading distributor of feature-length motion pictures with offices in 35 countries. In 2004 and 2005 UIP generated, respectively, over $2.1 billion and $2.2 billion at the international box office. No other film distributor at that time had ever passed the $2 billion mark in 2 consecutive years. In mid-2000 he was awarded a CBE for services to the British film industry.
From 1999 until early 2000, Till was President of London-based Universal Pictures International where he was responsible for international theatrical and video distribution activities. In this role, he also oversaw international film acquisitions and managed Universal’s UK producer relationships. Till was also President of International at PolyGram Filmed Entertainment where he was responsible for acquiring and distributing such films as Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Usual Suspects, Trainspotting, Notting Hill, The Green Mile, The Game, Nell and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He established theatrical/home entertainment/ television distribution companies in 13 countries including the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, and Canada; all of which enjoyed a 4-7% market share. Till joined PFE at its inception in 1992 and played an integral part in building PolyGram into the first fully integrated global producer and distributor of films to be established in over sixty years. Till was responsible for all of PolyGram’s film activities outside of the US, including its international television distribution and production division as well as its US home entertainment company. From 1997 to 1999 he co-chaired, with the Minister for Film, the UK Government’s Policy Review Group to advise the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport on film policy.
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