Newcastle-based production company Honeybird Studios, founded by former Whizz Kid Entertainment md, Lisa Chapman, has announced a new “creative partnership model” for content development.
Honeybird has unveiled its first roster of creative partners in FilmNova, ATS, GramaFilm, Tickled Pink Claudia Guerretta and Ready Everybody.
The partnerships “foster development and production of co-owned unscripted formats – by combining forces to strengthen creative propositions, or creating new cross-genre collaborations.”
Honeybird Studios has partnered with North East live sport and documentary production company FilmNova (the Great North Run and the Boat Race for BBC, Boxing and UK’s Strongest Man for Channel 5) and high-end reality and competition formats specialist, ATS (line production for Celebrity Bear Hunt and design and build of the Ninja Warrior obstacle courses.)
Honeybird has also tied with branded content specialist Gramafilm and Tickled Pink, founded by the producer of Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, Andrew Cole Bulgin along with casting and development executive Claudia Guerretta and Toronto-based format house, Ready Everybody.
Lisa Chapman founded Honeybird Studios in 2023, partnering with Managing Directors Derek Drennan and Stew Batt with the aim of making premium content from a North East base.
Lisa Chapman, Founder and CEO of Honeybird Studios, says “Working with such talented and creative people is a privilege. Given the current market, it seemed natural to expand our development pipeline with these creative collaborations to get the biggest, most innovative, noisy and entertaining content out there – much like the tried and tested co-production model for scripted.”
Jon Creamer
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