VP Global Film Publicity

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STUDIOCANAL
, the in-house studio of CANAL+, is Europe’s leading film and television studio.

Through its in-house operations and network of 23 production companies across Europe and the US, STUDIOCANAL finances, produces and distributes around half of the group’s 200 films and 80 series each year.

STUDIOCANAL owns one of the world’s most prestigious film libraries, including the largest catalogue of European films, with nearly 10,000 titles from 60 countries spanning a century of cinema. Since 2020, the studio has invested €25 million in the 4K restoration of 1,000 films, including Breathless, The Graduate, Terminator 2, and Love Actually.

Building on the global success of Paddington, STUDIOCANAL is scaling its franchise model through three new labels: STUDIOCANAL Stories, focused on adapting literary hits for film and TV; STUDIOCANAL Kids & Family, dedicated to building children’s entertainment franchises, and STUDIOCANAL ON STAGE, specialising in adapting films for live theatre.

• Oversee and assist in the development and implementation of global publicity strategies/campaigns, working closely with the international publicity managers to do so across the slate.
• Responsibilities will include the French slate (limited) and catalogue slate (STUDIOCANAL CLASSICS) in addition to international and local STUDIOCANAL productions. On occasion you will be asked to bring your film discipline and expertise to projects such as Paddington the Musical extending to the STUDIOCANAL ON STAGE slate.
• Shared responsibility for STUDIOCANAL’s annual international film festival strategy and execution. Travel to said festivals to sphere head activity on the ground with timely reporting. Ensure our festival strategy is coordinated between the global team, local teams, third party distribution teams, filmmakers / producers and festival teams.
• Awards strategy contribution across the slate as relevant and required.
• The Management of global junkets, festival premieres and touring which will inc. creating, maintaining, reconciling all aspects of the publicity budget presenting said costs for consideration and approval with negotiations demonstrated.
• Ability to navigate challenging press enquiries, territory and filmmaker issues in a timely and strategic manner.
• Day to day management of multiple projects from development, pre-production, production, markets, festival premieres, release campaigns and announcement strategy in close collaboration with those relevant in-house and external stakeholder teams.
• Draft written communications such as announcements, talking points, relevant campaign updates for filmmakers, stakeholders and internal seminars. Candidate will need exceptional written skills of sense check material such as production notes for example.
• Co-lead regular meetings with STUDIOCANAL territory publicity team leads in the UK, France, Germany, Italy Australia, New Zealand, Benelux and Poland. Liaise and collaborate with third party distributors, many of whom will be a priority client having acquired big budget productions from STUDIOCANAL.
• Communicate with all STUDIOCANAL territories and external third-party distribution partners to share clear and detailed information on all relevant titles throughout the campaign. Internal, external, timely and…