Netflix boosts documentary film team with Sky exec appointment
Netflix UK has snapped up Sky factual commissioner and Three Identical Strangers executive producer Tom Barry to join the documentary films team, Screen’s sister site Broadcast has revealed.
Barry will report to Kate Townsend, vice president, original feature documentaries.
He joined Sky two years ago as a commissioning editor of documentaries and factual, working across the UK pay-tv giant’s Documentaries and Nature channels.
During his Sky tenure, Barry’s credits included Bafta-nominated single documentaries Hatton, Forced Out, true-crime miniseries The Man Who Played With Fire, blue-chip natural history three-parter Secret World Of Sound With David Attenborough and Blast...
Barry will report to Kate Townsend, vice president, original feature documentaries.
He joined Sky two years ago as a commissioning editor of documentaries and factual, working across the UK pay-tv giant’s Documentaries and Nature channels.
During his Sky tenure, Barry’s credits included Bafta-nominated single documentaries Hatton, Forced Out, true-crime miniseries The Man Who Played With Fire, blue-chip natural history three-parter Secret World Of Sound With David Attenborough and Blast...
- 6/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
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