Mal Stares I Senior Vice President of Global Scripted at Blink49 Studios. Previously, she served as Vice President of International TV production at FIFTH SEASON, leading the company’s expansion into Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.  During her tenure, she successfully sold Amazon’s first Australian original series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart starring Sigourney Weaver, played a key role in securing deficit financing for notable productions such as BBC’s Queen of Oz, SBS’s Swift Street, and CBC’s Run the Burbs, and set up Mammals at Amazon, written by Jez Butterworth and starring James Corden. Previously at BBC Studios, she worked on shows set up with AMC, Netflix, FX, HBO, Showtime, Warner Bros. TV, Sony TV, and Snapchat, including Call Me Kat (Fox).  Stares also helped launch Scott Rudin's Los Angeles based scripted division, overseeing multiple projects, including What We Do In The Shadows (FX), Diagnosis (Netflix) and Barkskins (NatGeo). Previously, she worked with former HBO exec Anne Thomopoulos at Trio Lunch on Outlander (Starz), Versailles (Canal+) and Black Box (ABC). Stares is a dual citizen of Canada and the UK, and began her career working in physical production in Vancouver.

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