Exclusive: Former WestEnd Films sales director relocates to Beijing.
Former WestEnd Films sales director Mercy Liao has joined Universal Pictures International Productions (Upip) as manager of production and aqcuisitions.
Based in Beijing, Liao will report to Jo Yan, managing director and evp of Universal China and London-based Jj Lousberg, vice president, international production, Upip.
Liao will be responsible for sourcing, securing, and managing local and international development projects for coproduction, as well as for acquisitions.
During her five-year tenure at WestEnd Liao worked on titles including Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, Oscar-nominated titles Song Of The Sea, Footnote and Albert Nobbs and Ralph Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman.
The fluent Mandarin and English speaker was selected as a BFI official representative for the UK film industry trip to Beijing in 2014 and Shanghai in 2015.
Liao told Screen: “I’m thrilled to join Universal and to move to Beijing – a place I spent some of my early years and visited...
Former WestEnd Films sales director Mercy Liao has joined Universal Pictures International Productions (Upip) as manager of production and aqcuisitions.
Based in Beijing, Liao will report to Jo Yan, managing director and evp of Universal China and London-based Jj Lousberg, vice president, international production, Upip.
Liao will be responsible for sourcing, securing, and managing local and international development projects for coproduction, as well as for acquisitions.
During her five-year tenure at WestEnd Liao worked on titles including Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, Oscar-nominated titles Song Of The Sea, Footnote and Albert Nobbs and Ralph Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman.
The fluent Mandarin and English speaker was selected as a BFI official representative for the UK film industry trip to Beijing in 2014 and Shanghai in 2015.
Liao told Screen: “I’m thrilled to join Universal and to move to Beijing – a place I spent some of my early years and visited...
- 2/2/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
UK delegation includes producers, distributors, exhibitors, sellers and agents.
A delegation of UK film industry has arrived in Beijing, China, to meet with local industry as part of a BFI-led push for greater interaction between the two industries.
The visit, which lasts until Friday 18 April, is the first official UK film industry trade mission to China.
The delegation includes:
agent Tor Belfrage, Julian Belfrage Associatesline producer Mairi Bett, Skyline FilmsClare Binns, distributor/exhibitor Picturehouse Entertainmentproducer Pete Czernin, Blueprint Picturesproducer and distributor Will Clarke, Altitude Film Entertainmentproducer Robin Gutch, Warp Films/Warp Xsales agent Mercy Liao, West End Filmsproducer Ken Marshall, Steelmill Picturesdevelopment executive producer Dan MacRae, StudioCanalproducer Rebecca O’Brien, Sixteen Filmssales agent Charlotte Van Weede, eOne Films InternationalTeun Hilte from digital distributor Under the Milky WayIsabel Davis, BFI Head of InternationalSamantha Perahia, senior production executive from the British Film CommissionStephen McDonogh, BBC Worldwide Productions.
While in Beijing, the UK industry will meet with producers, distributors, investors...
A delegation of UK film industry has arrived in Beijing, China, to meet with local industry as part of a BFI-led push for greater interaction between the two industries.
The visit, which lasts until Friday 18 April, is the first official UK film industry trade mission to China.
The delegation includes:
agent Tor Belfrage, Julian Belfrage Associatesline producer Mairi Bett, Skyline FilmsClare Binns, distributor/exhibitor Picturehouse Entertainmentproducer Pete Czernin, Blueprint Picturesproducer and distributor Will Clarke, Altitude Film Entertainmentproducer Robin Gutch, Warp Films/Warp Xsales agent Mercy Liao, West End Filmsproducer Ken Marshall, Steelmill Picturesdevelopment executive producer Dan MacRae, StudioCanalproducer Rebecca O’Brien, Sixteen Filmssales agent Charlotte Van Weede, eOne Films InternationalTeun Hilte from digital distributor Under the Milky WayIsabel Davis, BFI Head of InternationalSamantha Perahia, senior production executive from the British Film CommissionStephen McDonogh, BBC Worldwide Productions.
While in Beijing, the UK industry will meet with producers, distributors, investors...
- 4/15/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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