Bo Stehmeier


Red Arrow Studios Int’l hires Audio Network exec for global sales

Red Arrow Studios International (RASI) has hired Audio Network exec Tim Gerhartz as SVP of global sales.  Reporting into Bo Stehmeier, president of RASI, Gerhartz – who worked in sales and acquisitions at the German distributor from 2012 to 2015 – will be responsible for leading the company’s international sales team. Based in the Munich […]

Red Arrow Int’l, Mr. Robot producer link for workplace drama adaptation

Red Arrow Studios International has linked with Mr. Robot and 13 Reasons Why producer Anonymous Content to adapt a bestselling non-fiction workplace guide into a scripted series. The distributor has optioned the rights to veteran journalist and USA Today editor-in-chief Joanne Lipman’s book That’s What She Said: What Men Need To Know (And Women Need To Tell Them) About […]

Show of the week: For the Love of Spock

After Leonard Nimoy’s passing in 2015, his son, director Adam Nimoy (Gilmore Girls), chose to tell the story of his personal experience growing up with his father as the universally recognisable Star Trek character Mr Spock. “Through his viewpoint and relationship, the film gained an unparalleled level of access and insight into the international icon, […]

Trends watch: NATPE Budapest – Red Arrow Studios International

Red Arrow’s Bo Stehmeier, SVP of global sales at its international arm, discusses the hottest trends in CEE and what buyers want. What is your main focus at NATPE Europe? With the formats business in CEE continuing to grow, we will be focusing on our scripted remakes, such as Lice Mother – the hit Netherlands […]

Digging into CEE

The number of pay TV homes in Central and Eastern Europe are set to fall, but international distributors tell TBI business in the region is booming A Digital TV Research report earlier this year forecast the number of pay television homes in Central and Eastern Europe to fall in 18 territories across the region in […]

Off the Fence exec joins AMC Studios’ sales team

Off the Fence’s Mark Dee-Shapland has joined AMC Studios’ worldwide sales arm. Dee-Shapland has taken up the new post of head of content sales at the AMC Networks-owned production outfit. He will remain in Amsterdam, where factual-focused distributor Off the Fence is based, but report to LA-based Valerie Cabrera, who has been AMC Studios’ senior […]

Gamsu gets expanded Red Arrow role

Harry Gamsu has been handed an expanded role at Munich-based Red Arrow International overseeing all non-scripted programming. Gamsu (pictured) becomes VP, non-scripted at Red Arrow Entertainment’s sales arm, and will manage all aspects of new and catalogue non-scripted properties, plus acquire new programmes and IP from third-party producers, broadcasters and new platforms. He will also […]

Ludo Dufour named Off the Fence MD

Ludo Dufour has been upped to managing director, sales and coproductions, at Off the Fence, and Kurt Thorson named CFO in a company rejig triggered by the exit of COO Daryl James last year. Dufour has been promoted from VP of sales and Thorson becomes finance chief having occupied several roles at the Amsterdam-based distributor. […]

Factory announces Stehmeier replacements

Sports lifestyle specialist Factory Media has added two new sales and acquisitions execs in the wake of yesterday’s news that Bo Stehmeier had left the company for Red Arrow International. UK and Germany-based Factory has recruited Sam Thompson (left) as head of sales, and Nathalie Holden as head of distribution. Thompson joins from US distributor […]

Eyre rejoins Stehmeier with Factory job

Georgie Eyre has reunited with former Off the Fence colleague Bo Stehmeier at lifestyle sports and culture content group Factory Media. She has taken the new post of head of acquisitions at The Rights Factory, which is the newly-christened sales arm of Factory. Eyre left Amsterdam- and London-based producer-distributor Off the Fence along with Stehmeier […]