About - Komixx Entertainment

With over 18 years in the private equity and international investment banking sector, Ed has accumulated significant financial experience in large corporate and private institutions. At business accountancy firm, Baker Tilly (now RSM), he delivered specialised structured finance support to the media, entertainment and sports industry group. For over five years he worked on financing numerous film and TV productions, stage shows and live events. He established a broad network of media industry contacts and gained detailed broadcast and distribution sector knowledge and international production experience. In 2001, he established European Arts & Media (EAM), an intellectual property rights management business providing corporate finance services to the entertainment media industry based in the UK, Ireland and Switzerland.

With the ambition of getting directly into production and rights ownership, Ed co-founded Komixx Media Group with Andrew Cole-Bulgin and Richard Randolph in 2007. Ed is principally responsible for determining strategy and direction for Komixx and planning and implementing international growth. He also oversees group-wide corporate financial management, production financing and management of the creative rights portfolio. Working together Ed and Andrew hold joint responsibility for creative direction of Komixx and the selection and development of projects with Head of Development, Melanie Halsall. Ed fulfils the role of either Producer or Executive Producer across all Komixx projects.

Andrew possesses over 25 years’ experience in the media industry with senior roles at Thames TV and international advertising agency, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. With the benefit of his experience he established Connexus, a successful sponsorship and research agency in 1997. The company delivered bespoke television and live event sponsorships plus commercial research and evaluation to many blue chip companies including, The Premier League, Volvo Ocean Race, Renault Cars, Pepsico’s Tropicana, British Airways, L’Oreal, Lancôme and Glamour Magazine.

In April 2007, he teamed up with Edward Glauser and launched Komixx Entertainment. Together, they went on to form a 50/50 joint partnership with Random House Group Ltd and Random House Children’s Publishers, the world’s largest English-language children’s book publisher, and a company within the trade book publishing division of Bertelsmann AG. Within this joint venture company, called Random House Children’s Screen Entertainment LLP, Andrew is Partner, Head of Film & Television.

Melanie heads up the company’s scripted development slate, sourcing projects,
creating and developing new ideas and working with new and established writing
talent.
She has over 20 years’ experience within scripted development
and production through a variety of roles within the BBC, Fremantle Media and
Ealing Studios, spanning kids, YA and prime time.
For Komixx, she has adapted and developed for television the books Itch, Dog Loves
Books and Stanley, additionally taking the roles of writer and producer on Itch and
executive producer on Dog Loves Books and Stanley. She is currently developing,
adapting and creating a number of exciting new projects.
Melanie is a voracious reader, has an encyclopedic knowledge of TV drama, is a
theatre addict and loves cinema from all over the world.
She holds a PG Diploma in Script Development from the National Film and
Television School; she was a WFTV mentee in 2017 and is a member of BAFTA.

Amanda Morrison has worked in the content industry for over 25 years. She has unique working knowledge within both the traditional and new media content production markets. Her experience includes online content, television, film, itv, live performance, visual art and interactive media production across a range of technology platforms.

Amanda is a new media pioneer, working for NTL (UK) within the founding management team that launched the world’s first digital interactive services. She has held various management roles with large media companies, produced independent content for distributors and broadcasters and delivered large-scale technology infrastructure projects.

Amanda is the founding Chair of Sunset Studios Ltdin Perth, Western Australia and previously Chaired the Board of The Centre for Interdisciplinary Artsand pvi Collective Ltd. She is an every-house member of Soho Houseand holds a BA, Arts Managementfrom WAAPA and in 2011 completed the International Institute for Television Leadership– Asia Australia Media Executive Leadership Program.

Michael owns up to having worked in the filmed entertainment finance sector for more than 20 years both in various financial institutions and the industry itself, and as such has witnessed and been part of its evolution into the business that it is today.

His film finance career began in 1995 as a Senior Manager at the British merchant bank Guinness Mahon (“GM”), then owned by Bank of Yokohama, where the team was considered to be a lynchpin of the UK film finance sector. His first film finance feature was “American Buffalo”, based on a David Mamet play and starring Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Frantz. At the time, the team’s major clients included the producer and director team of Merchant Ivory. The GM team’s prominence then came to the attention of the major French bank Societe Generale (“SG”) who wanted to establish an Entertainment Finance specialist team at its UK office. Michael was one of the GM team chosen to set up this operation and joined SG in 1998.

Quickly establishing itself as the go-to operation within the UK, it forged working relationships with Canal Plus, Aardman Animations, Working Title and Merchant Ivory among others and as well as completing many single picture project financings it also entered the world of slate financing deals, library acquisitions and entertainment sector LBOs. After eight years, having been promoted to Director Michael was in 2006 again approached to bring his experience in single picture projects and slate financing to the then recently created unit at Allied Irish Banks Capital Markets in London. While there, he executed the team’s participation in slate financing deals for Summit Entertainment (the world-leading independent film Sales Agent and Distribution Company) and TWC Asia as well as a number of single picture projects.

In late 2009 Michael was then contacted by the CEO of Ingenious Investments and asked whether he would join Ingenious to supplement their already best-in-class capability, and in his five years there as an Investment Director was head of a number of funds both EIS and SEIS-based and also established a senior debt film finance fund for Ingenious whose cornerstone investor was a high profile fund of funds.

In 2014 he was ready for his next challenge: to work as a freelance consultant and was engaged by a number of companies in the film and TV sectors, including Komixx, with whom he has worked since early 2015.

In late 2018 he was invited to join the permanent staff of Komixx as Head of Production Finance and as such is responsible for sourcing, negotiating and executing the finance on all of Komixx’s projects.

Richard is a BAFTA award-winning producer, possessing over 25 years’ experience in children’s television and animation. In 1984 he helped set up and run Ealing Animation, with the studio producing a raft of programmes for all major terrestrial broadcasters in the educational and entertainment markets.

As producer, Richard was responsible for assembling the creative teams and managing the finance and schedules for all the programmes, spanning small graphic ‘stings’ or long running series, including the pilot for Bob the Builder. In 1993, he was awarded a BAFTA in the Best Children’s Television Programme category. He went on to receive several BAFTA nominations and another four BAFTA awards for children’s entertainment. Richard has worked at all levels of children’s television, and has gained a precise understanding of the family entertainment audience. He joined Komixx Entertainment in 2007 to develop the company’s creative slate of programmes.

After completing a degree in Film and Television at Murdoch University Lucy started her career in Perth in post-production, moving to Sydney in 2001 to run a successful production company servicing many of the world’s leading advertising networks.  The company built an impressive collection of  awards including two Cannes Lions and NY Festival awards.  She produced branding campaigns throughout Australia and overseas for companies such as Qantas, Visa Card, Land Rover and Procter & Gamble.

After a successful career in advertising production Lucy moved in to long form within the development office of Production Company Goalpost Pictures where she assisted across a slate of projects.  Lucy’s credits include Goalpost Co-ordinator on the second series of Cleverman (ABC/Sundance), feature film Upgrade directed by Leigh Whannell and the Foxtel series Fighting Season.

Returning to Perth in 2018 she was delighted to meet Amanda Morrison and start work within the Komixx Entertainment Australian office where she works in Development, as Associate Producer and Post Supervisor across the slate of work.

In 2007, following 15 years in London working in the corporate and banking sectors (Qantas, Cox Insurance and UBS Investment Bank), Ros returned to Perth, Western Australia.

For several years Ros immersed herself within the independent film sector, producing numerous films during 2014-2018; all were selected for festivals both Nationally and Internationally. Festival awards include: LA Shorts Film Festival, West End Film Festival (Brisbane) and the Melbourne Independent Film Festival.

Ros joined Radiance Entertainment in early 2017, for two series for the History Channel (Foxtel) – “Turning Point” and “End of Empire”.  In 2018 Ros worked with Good Thing Productions for the feature film “Below”.  Later that year Ros met with Amanda Morrison and Lucy Verity and was invited to join the Australian Komixx Entertainment team located at Sunset Studios, set within the Sunset Heritage Precinct in Perth, WA.

Ros’ experience in the film & tv industry is varied and includes: production/post production coordination, accounts, travel coordination. She is a member of Professional Filmcrew WA and WIFT WA (Women in Film & Television); was a WIFT WA mentee in 2018.  In addition to her work with Komixx Entertainment, Ros also manages Sunset Studios.

Heather is a West Australian feature film and television writer.

Her experience includes writing for the ABC ME children’s series Itch, based on the book series by Simon Mayo, as well as working in the script department as script editor. Heather worked in the script department as coordinator for season one of the ABC drama series The Heights, and has had experience in a number of writer’s rooms including Matchbox Picture’s The Heights, Easy Tiger’s one-hour drama series Doctor Doctor, and on a number of projects with Factor 30.

In 2017 Heather undertook an internship with Studio Canal in their Sydney offices working within the Sales, Acquisitions and development team.

On the feature side, Heather previously worked with Australian Production Company WBMC developing feature film concepts for their slate. Her feature The Last Drop was the recipient of Screenwest’s West Coast Visions fund, while her second feature, One More Shot, is currently in development with Truce Films. In 2015 Heather was inducted into the Scripted Ink Pathways Program for her feature script Another Time.