Full Name
Michaela Qvale
Company
Miramax
Title
Manager TV Development
Country (Address)
United States
Biography
Michaela is currently Manager of TV Development at Miramax, covering over twenty shows in various stages, including the reboot of PROJECT GREENLIGHT available on Max. Miramax is a global film and television studio best known for it’s award-winning original films. The studio has a growing slate of television content that includes, among others, a series based on the company’s action-comedy hit THE GENTLEMEN from Guy Ritchie which drops on Netflix this March, a series adaptation of PRET A PORTER for the BBC, and a series adaptation of Alka Joshi’s THE HENNA ARTIST with Netflix. Michaela first started her career in event producing, working with events such as the North Fork TV Festival, the Food Film Festival, George Motz’s Hamburger America, the McDonald’s B-Boy Royale, and the MTV VMAs. Since shifting into Development, Michaela has worked at The Gersh Agency, under the head of International TV and Packaging, and at CBS TV Studios in Streaming and Cable Current series on a slate that included 'Dead To Me' (Netflix) and 'Unbelievable' (Netflix) among other shows. She’s a graduate of Columbia University with a BA in Film and Business Management.
What we're looking for from Ready, Steady, Pitch!
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SCRIPTED TV
Miramax TV is open to projects across all genres, but we’re specifically drawn to shows with unique POVs and voices. Our international shows are sometimes set up via global streamers and other times via local territory platforms, but the goal with all of them is that they are universal and can travel to audiences across the world while still feeling authentic to the country and community they centre around. In the drama space, whether it’s a family show, a soap, a genre piece or otherwise, we’re looking for stories that are character first and have a strong propulsive sense episode to episode. In the comedy space, we’re looking for both broader ensemble comedies and dark comedies but either type should have laugh out loud moments, hard funny beats. We also reimagine Miramax film titles for the TV space and would love to meet with producers who have experience working with IP and connections to voices in the region that could help us find the 2024 version of some of these titles.
