Image: Les Sampson receives his award, courtesy of Laszlo Kriston and his phone.
Slowly but surely the need for glamour and recognition is seeping into even the backest of backrooms in the screen trade. ReedMidem now has a Content Trendsetter Award which it gave to four leading acquisitions executives: ITV’s Sasha Breslau, Sundance TV’s Christian Vesper, TV Globo’s Paulo Mendes and Australia’s very own Les Sampson, Director of Acquisitions at Nine Entertainment’s StreamCo.
