Screen Australia announces Christopher Sharp as Development Manager

Thursday 17 December 2009

Screen Australia announced today that Christopher Sharp will join its Development team.

Most recently Christopher was based in London where he worked as a Development Executive for Material Entertainment, a co-venture between New Line Cinema and Entertainment Film Distributors. Christopher has also worked as a script assessor for UK production entities such as Working Title, UK Film Council, Celador and Ealing Studios. Prior to that he worked as an agent at BLA Management in Sydney and as a producer.

“We are very excited that Christopher is returning home to Australia and will be joining our team,” said Martha Coleman, Head of Development at Screen Australia. “His European experience has given him extensive exposure to the commercial realities of an international marketplace. He brings home with him an astute, diverse taste and an intelligent and skilled understanding of script craft to the role.”

Christopher will join Screen Australia’s other Development Managers, Susan Boehm, Mike Cowap and Veronica Gleeson, and Development Consultant Andy Cox. The team is responsible for Screen Australia’s feature film project development as well as the organisation’s Talent Escalator, Innovation, short film and short animation programs.

Christopher will commence his tenure at Screen Australia in January 2010. He will be based in the Sydney office.

Victoria Buchan, The Lantern Group, victoria@lanterngroup.com.au
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