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Zig Zag Productions is one of the UK’s foremost independent television production companies formed in 1999 by Danny Fenton.
Zig Zag has produced over 1000 hours of non scripted programming and has grown to become an internationally recognised, respected and award winning television producer both in the UK, USA and internationally. Zig Zag has produced programming for broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Five, TLC, MTV, Fox, National Geographic, Discovery, OWN, Logo and Syfy. The company has also won numerous awards including the Rose D’or for Best Format.
Zig Zag was recently voted 6th in the Televisual top UK indies survey. Also rated 10th top sports producer, 7th top factual producer, and 9th in the top specialist factual producers in the most recent Broadcast Indie Survey and is consistently listed in the Realscreen Global 200 Top Independent Production Companies.
Meet the Team
Danny Fenton
CEO
Danny Fenton is the C.E.O of Zig Zag Productions and has overseen the launch of Zig Zag offices in New York, Manchester. He Executive Produces all Zig Zag content.
He is also the founder of NIPA (New Independent Producers Alliance).
Danny is a regular speaker at the following conferences:- Sheffield Documentary Festival, EBU Factual Entertainment Conference, Realscreen, The Format Convention. As an experienced judge Danny is often asked to judge Broadcast, RTS and Bafta award ceremonies.
Matt Graff
Managing Director
Matt manages all Commercial opportunities, off-air rights exploitation and the management and creation of new content for digital platforms such as Zig Zag’s YouTube channels.
Matt has worked as a New Business Executive, Branded Content Agent, Senior Director at Viacom International Media Networks, overseen the content output of the CEEMEA music brands, and commissioned content for MTV International.
Prior to that, he was Head of Production & Relationship Manager at MTV Networks Internationals Emerging Markets.
Mia Freedman
COO
Mia is one of Zig Zag’s longest serving employees and has been an integral part of the company’s senior management team for the last 20 years, fulfilling a number of different roles.
Mia now runs the sales and distribution arm of Zig Zag’s impressive back catalogue.
Sally Powdrell
Accountant
Sally spent 3 years at a New Zealand based accountancy firm Nesbitt, Scott & Williams before moving to the UK where she spent 9 years at the BBC working in the Genre Commissioning accounts team.
After a brief stint in the Business Service industry Sally returned to the TV industry when she joined Zig Zag in 2005.
Sally has become an integral part of the Zig Zag team taking on greater responsibilities and running the day to day management accounts and cash flow forecasts.
Andy Scott
Head of Entertainment
Andy started his career at BBC Manchester’s Youth Entertainment & Features department, working with Dennis Pennis and setting the tone for what has been a fun-packed career.
Seminal shows Andy has worked on include Eurotrash, Banzai, and the 11 O’Clock Show, producing material for Iain Lee, Ricky Gervais, and Sacha Baron Cohen.
After spells with Objective Productions, as the showrunner of first series of long-running hit The Real Hustle, and global science/magic format Breaking Magic for Discovery, and Cineflix, creating hit series Urban Legends for SyFychannel, Andy joined ITV Studios. There he created Trickedwhich was a global hidden camera/magic prank format, sold all over the world.
Denis Karam
COO, Zig Zag CEE
After a long spell with a Swiss based company as Int. TV Marketing and Advertising Manager on the F1 sponsorships, as well as a short spell with a few Indie production companies, Denis joined Zig Zag Productions in 2005 as an archivist, going onto become Head of Archive in 2012. Denis was honoured with the FOCAL International Award for the Best Archivist of the Year and has been part of the Training Committee at the Federation of Commercial Audio-Visual Libraries in London, an archive expert guest speaker and panellist at Westminster University, FOCAL Annual Mentoring program, Broadcast TECH events, NEM Zagreb.
Recently, Denis has become a COO for ZigZag CEE, ZigZig Productions sister company, specialising in business development and new productions in Central and Eastern Europe
Daniel Bankover
Head of Production
Dan started his career at Leopard Films before moving to Endemol to work across Big Brother amongst others. There soon followed time at BBC and Two Four and he then joined Shine spending a few years in food programming
There followed spells at Liberty Bell, Wall to Wall, Britespark and Optomen before joining ITN Productions and working across a range of programming from Royal Weddings to Cruise ships. He joins from Brown Bob.
Geoffrey Okol
Development Producer
Award-winning development producer Geoffrey has worked in development teams at a range of companies including BBC Entertainment, ITN Productions, and Argonon Group. He has created and developed commissioned shows across a variety of genres for all the major UK broadcasters and streamers.
He was the recipient of the top prize at FORMAGINATION 2023, Realscreen's annual format competition, his winning format is currently in development at ITV Studios.
Having previously set up, ran, and sold a successful advertising agency he has over a decade's worth of experience in marketing, advertising, and PR before moving into television.
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