Zia Sands

Lead Acquisitions, Partnerships and Coproductions Kids and Family Emea @Warner Bros. Discovery

London, GB

In this role I oversee and negotiate shared acquisitions for Warnermedia EMEA kids business, working closely with local heads of programming and acquisitions for each of channels and content heads in EMEA. In addition, I liaise constantly with production and coproduction partners to provide creative consultation throughout the development and production of select series, including the Taffy, an original series for Boomerang with Cybergroup Studios. Mush mush and the Mushables an original series from La Cabane/ Thuristar distributed by CAKE Entertainment and Ninja Express an original series distributed by Eone. I am the first point of contact for all EMEA targeted Acquisitions pitches, managing the assessment of content for our networks and guiding these projects through our process of review, negotiation and ultimately acquisition if they are successful. I work across all our children’s targeted networks in EMEA, whilst working closely with our International & US teams. This role works closely with multiple lines of business, including programming, finance, legal, marketing, digital and content operations.

Bournemouth University

BA Hons