BEN GRASS

Ben Grass is Managing Director of Pure Grass Films, a transmedia production company partly owned by Endemol. Select Pure Grass Films production credits include Kirill, a Digital Emmy-nominated sci-fi series, sponsored by X-Box, and Beyond the Rave, financed by Hammer Films and MySpace’s first series outside the US. Pure Grass Films are currently developing TWIST 3D, a contemporary adaptation of Oliver Twist where Fagin’s gang use parkour to commit a series of audacious art thefts and Shadow Line, a multi-platform action thriller about a secret group of intelligence operatives. Pure Grass Films have a transmedia partnership with Hodder & Stoughton and will launch the first property of the collaboration in 2012. Ben previously headed Sony Pictures Digital Division in Europe and prior to that was Senior Advisor, Corporate Strategy at the BBC. Ben studied Modern History at Oxford, and did an MBA at INSEAD in France.