Creative Investment Partner - Film Funds

About Parrot Analytics

Parrot Analytics is the global authority on media and entertainment intelligence, providing the strategic decision support that the world's leading studios, producers, streamers, investors, and government bodies rely on to de-risk content investment and maximize returns. Trusted across the full media economy — from studios and streaming platforms to film funds, sports leagues, and government bodies — Parrot Analytics informs capital allocation, acquisitions, programming strategy, and IP valuation at the highest levels of the industry.

By measuring the demand and preferences of more than 2 billion audiences worldwide, Parrot Analytics' AI platform quantifies the value of content, talent, franchises, and sports rights — enabling partners to forecast revenue, assess risk, optimize portfolio strategy, and drive more predictable success.

At Parrot Analytics, we own the world's largest audience behaviour dataset. We help film funds, studios, streamers and creators decide what to greenlight, what not to and where the future of entertainment is headed.

As our Creative Investment Partner, you will help Film Funds to identify, evaluate, and shape film and television projects. The role combines strong creative judgement with market awareness, helping ensure that funded projects demonstrate both cultural authenticity and meaningful audience potential.

We are looking for someone with deep familiarity with Arabic-language storytelling and the regional film ecosystem, alongside a sophisticated understanding of how projects travel internationally across festivals, theatrical markets, and streaming platforms.

This is a remote role, ideally based in the Middle East or North Africa.

• Concept Assessment: you will evaluate scripts, treatments, and development materials submitted to partner funds and provide clear written assessments that inform greenlight and development decisions.
• Project Evaluation:
  Working alongside Parrot Analytics' global data and insights teams, the Creative Investment Partner will evaluate submitted projects and provide strategic recommendations on which stories should move forward into development or production investment.
• Inclusion of Data:
  Your creative judgement will be complemented by Parrot Analytics' global audience demand data and market intelligence, providing insight into how projects may resonate with audiences across regions and platforms.
• Content Portfolio Creation:
  You will help identify projects with exceptional creative and cultural potential and elevate them for investment committee consideration. You will also contribute to shaping a balanced and strategically positioned slate, ensuring that supported projects combine distinctive storytelling with strong audience appeal.
• Editorial:
  Where appropriate, you may also provide editorial insight and development feedback to help strengthen promising projects as they move through the funding process.
• Arabic Domain Development:
  The role also involves maintaining a strong awareness of trends in Arabic-language cinema, emerging filmmakers, regional production activity, and international festival and distribution landscapes.

We are looking for candidates with strong creative taste, cultural literacy, and development judgement.

You may come from backgrounds such as:

• Film or television development executive
• Script editor or story consultant
• Producer with significant development experience
• Film fund or commissioning body evaluator
• Festival programmer focused on Arab or international cinema

Strong candidates will have:

• Professional experience in film or television development, production, or script evaluation
• Deep familiarity with Arabic-language cinema and regional storytelling
• Strong awareness of international film markets, festivals, and distribution pathways
• The ability to evaluate scripts with both creative sensitivity and strategic perspective
• Fluency in Arabic and English
• Excellent written communication and analytical skills

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