Michaela Qvale

Title
Manager of TV Development
Company
Miramax
Country (Address)
United States
Biography
Michaela is currently Manager of TV Development at Miramax, covering shows in every stage of development including an adaptation of HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE set up at Disney+ and an adaptation of THE SHIPPING NEWS set up at the CBC. She was previously the point executive on the reboot of PROJECT GREENLIGHT starring Isa Rae and available to stream on MAX. Michaela has been at Miramax since the launch of the TV division in 2020. The teams’ growing slate of television content that includes, among others, Netflix’s global hit THE GENTLEMEN from Guy Ritchie.

Michaela first started her career in event producing, working with events such as the George Motz’s Hamburger America, the McDonald’s B-Boy Royale, North Fork TV Festival, the Food Film Festival, and the MTV VMAs. After shifting into Development, Michaela 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.
Michaela Qvale
What we're looking for from Ready, Steady, Pitch!
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SCRIPTED TELEVISION

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 2025 version of some of these titles.