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Simon Knight has been a practicing, researching and advising media
freelancer and consultant for more than 20 years, across an unusual
variety and exacting level
of international tasks. he is active in creative, strategic and
business activities.
Numerous clients and projects have ranged from writing TV series and
editing films to financing film funds
and investment advice, managing movie production sets, TV buyer,
business consulting and development
and researching many recent developments in new platform content
acquisitions, and distribution.
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Recent Client Comments :
"Simon has excellent personal qualities and business skills as well as
a top drawer portfolio of clients and connections that have helped us
move our business forward significantly. I have no hesitation
whatsoever in highly recommending Simon" April 7, 2008
( Dave Mousley CEO/ Partner Red Vision / CGI and production BAFTA &
RTS award-winning company April 7, 2008 )
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"At New Bond Street Asset Management we used Simon's MansionElect
research service during 2007. Being both comprehensive and providing
the unexpected and alternative, Mansionmedia's service made a great
combination with the International FT editions. I have also found
Simon Knight to have wide and surprising relevant connections in
capital introduction and specialist advisors. In 2006 he facilitated
for us negotiations on a foreign reserve management contract."
( Klaus Peter Rosemann COO / Founder Partner NBSAM / March 11, 2008)
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"Simon has been a longstanding business associate throughout my days
in Europe since 1991, first indirectly in production, distribution,
pay tv/vod and more directly since '99, when I founded Rights Stuff BV
(content strategy/acquisition/distribution for new media across
various platforms and business models).
His expertise includes a wide knowledge in fields complementary to Rights Stuff, ie from the angles/
fields of M&A finance (media) and research (new media/trends/programming/new companies/tracking).
We'd hired Simon initially on special projects and then it evolved to indispensable
regular ongoing part time research for trends and developments background in various new media
particuarly applicable to the film/tv content licensing services of Rights Stuff, ie film and tv offerings
in mobile, internet (web portals/sites etc), handheld devices, via
different consumer and business models eg ad supported, rental,
purchase (download to own), subscription etc.
I highly recommend him including for his selective (less is more, don't inundate) approach to
research and his ability to tap into related digital and human networks
(wendy bernfeld, md rights stuff bv" April 20, 2008)
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“Simon Knight has been assisting the Hexayurt Project off-and-on since late 2007, and largely acts as our strategic advisor on business development and financing issues.
He has developed an extremely comprehensive global map of how the world works and how things get done which has enabled him to provide pertinent information
that we did not know we needed on several occasions. I think it is this global strategic map which makes Simon so valuable as an advisor.
It doesn't hurt that he knows people from every walk of life and has a very broad international footprint either. In terms of working with Simon, he's useful in two modes.
When you need to know something, you can ask him to have think about the question at hand, and he'll come back with an opinion, and usually two or three points of contact for further action.
Even more useful is the informal "Simon Knight News Flash" where you occasionally get a vital piece of information about something you would never otherwise have discovered,
usually that directly impacts your operations or represents a new opportunity in a direction you are not currently moving forwards in. In today's complex and accelerating global environment,
nobody is able to keep up with all of the fields which affect their operations. It's very useful to have Simon around keeping an eye out in his corner of the world for what affects yours. Highly recommended.” September 23, 2008
Top qualities: Great Results , Personable , Creative
Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt 2008
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Please also see :
http://simon.knight.mansionmedia.googlepages.com/home
www.iec.org/events/2007/bbwf_asia/conference/e3.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonknightmansionmedia
&
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mansionmedia/
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Biography links and details :
After studying art at Middlesex and then film at the Polytechnic of
Central London (PCL), Simon worked on productions for such as C4, BBC,
Partridge Films and Jadran Studios as a film technician (particularly
editing) producer, assistant director and writer on productions in
film and television. Numbers of these have been shown around the world
and won international awards. These include Hamburg Altona
www.imdb.com/title/tt0160344/ The Sin Eater
www.filmcentre.co.uk/search.asp?str=Sin_Eater,_the Cordoba with
Annette Crosbie , The Moment with Lynsey Baxter, directed by Terence
Gross and director of photography, David Higgs, The Oscar nominated
production 'The Child Eater'
movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809385069/cast Children's series 'The Bamboo Bears'
www.telescreen.nl/default.asp?t=&id=57&char=35 Documentary series,
'The Path of The Rain
God' ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/11993
Lecturing then followed in Further Education and then occasionally in
art and media at such as Kingston University, The London School of
Economics, the London Institute (Central St.Martins) Academy of
Dramatic Art (ADA) Zagreb, and project researching for the European
Film Academy and numerous clients.
Simon has since acted as project consultant in creative, practical and
advisory roles to numerous international media clients including,
Japanese State Broadcaster NHK/MICO as European TV buyer, a telecom
alliance in (Xin de www.xinde.com/menu_21/ China comprising of Siemans
Deutsche-Telecom and Citic in branding, global satellite and digital
TV group Setanta/Servecast in strategy, European TV co-producers
ZDF/Telescreen/TFI brought in as bible re-developer and writer
(producer Adam Kempton)
Kamera Interactive and Inspired Gaming Group in business development
bringing the latter the first international deal for their £1.2bn
annual revenue products Virtual Racing / Gaming. Off The Fence,
leading documentary distributor and producer in business strategy
and management structuring and placing.
As MansionMedia, he has provided on-going research services and
analysis to such as to Endemol International Acquisitions and to the
Euro 11bn under management,
New Bond Street Asset Management specialising in the derivatives markets.
With Rights Stuff, MansionMedia is involved in strategic research with
many other clients
in key global media developments particularly in cross platform
content acquisition and distribution.
Strategic and business projects led to capital introduction, deal
initiation and research with finance groups such as Grant Thornton,
New Bond Street Asset Management (NBSAM) and Pall Mall Capital (a $200m
film fund raising).
Recent achievements include the re-financing of a film pre-production lending
facility by Fortress Investment Group ($46bn fund of alternative
investments) ,bringing them their
first ever media deal. This operation was managed by Sarah Giles /
Freewheel (and Galileo Media and Finance) and backed some numbers of
feature film productions such as Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book' ( Zwartboek )
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/ ) 'Closing The Ring' directed by Richard
Attenborough and 'The Proposition' written by Nick Cave.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/)
As well as attending many media markets, simon is lucky enough to have
participated in numerous film,
television and new media conferences and festivals beginning as a jury
member of the European Student Film Festival in Munich with film
director, Reinhard Hauff in
1984, and more recently a panelist on pitching for beginners at the
Broadcast Production Show in London. He was also a panelist at the
World Broadband Forum Asia 2007
in Beijing with Microsoft and Disney representatives.
See : www.iec.org/events/2007/bbwf_asia/
www.iec.org/events/2007/bbwf_asia/conference/e3.html
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