Execs from Maker Studios/Disney and Channel4 join new digital content company
Sep. 25, 2018
Merman, the production company founded and run by award-winning duo Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford has today announced Mermade, the brand new digitally focused arm of the expanding business. Mermade will specialize in the creation of non-broadcast content of all shapes and sizes, funded by and for social and streaming platforms, brands and publishers, with a particular focus on short-form episodic.
The development of Mermade follows the 2017 expansion of Merman into LA and NY, and the launch of its branded entertainment and advertising division in both the US and UK. Merman Global Managing Partners Jeremy Rainbird in London and Kira Carstensen in Los Angeles will run Mermade, alongside Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford.
Horgan explains:
"Mermade gives creators control over their output, fostering new and original voices with subject matter that is not bound to convention. The digital space allows us to create a format that fits the idea, instead of creating an idea to fit the format. The idea comes first. It’s about working with diverse creators and blurring the lines between TV, film and branded entertainment. It’s very exciting for us.”
Carstensen comments:
“Mermade is very much an extension of Merman. We make scripted and non-scripted premium short form episodic entertainment, brand-funded and beyond, for audiences who consume their content online and who are attracted to the truthful and irreverent shows they have come to expect from the Merman brand.”
The board of Mermade in the US and UK is bolstered by the addition of non-executive Directors Rene Rechtman and Dan’l Hewitt, both formerly of Maker Studios/Disney.
In the UK, former Channel 4 and All4 commissioning editor Joshua Buckingham has joined as UK Managing Director:
Buckingham added:
“We are already working with an electric mix of writers, performers and directors and with them we want to embrace the way audiences actually consume content and innovate storytelling accordingly.”
The Development Director USA is Melanie Donkers, who joins the Mermade USA team from Pulse Films and Fullscreen where she was in Digital Development.
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