EXCLUSIVE: Beth Bednarski has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer ofImagine Entertainment, the award-winning global entertainment company of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.
The news comes following theamicable departureof Imagine Entertainments Presidents Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns (from Jax Media), which we were first to report on.
Bednarski has been at Imagine for more than six years, most recently serving as Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations.
Beth BednarskiCourtesy of Imagine Entertainment
Prior to joining the company, she served as Vice President of Finance at Shine America, having launched her career at Deloitte.
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In her new role, Bednarski will oversee finance and accounting along with human resources, operations and IT, partnering with senior leadership on business development and strategic initiatives.
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Ive had the opportunity to work closely with Beth for over a decade and known her to be exceptionally strategic and operational, said Imagine Entertainment COO, Steve Shikiya.
She has become an integral part of the senior leadership team at Imagine, particularly as the company has aggressively expanded into new content businesses over the past few years.
Founded in 1986 and run by executive chairmen Grazer and Howard, Imagine Entertainment has under its umbrella Imagine Features, Imagine Television Studios, Imagine Documentaries, Imagine Kids+Family, Imagine Brands and Imagine Audio, as well as the award-winning Jax Media and Alex Gibneys Jigsaw Productions.
Imagines productions have been honored over the years with 47 Academy Award nominations and 228 at the Emmys, among numerous other accolades.
Past productions include the Best Picture Oscar winnerA Beautiful Mind, as well as the Grammys Best Film winnerThe Beatles: Eight Days A Week The Touring Years.
Recent feature productions include the critically-acclaimedThirteen Livesdirected by Howard for Prime Video, the hit Netflix musicaltick, tick…Boom!directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sacha JenkinsLouis Armstrongs Black & Blues, Rory KennedysVolcano: Rescue from Whakaariand such critically acclaimed documentaries as the Emmy-winningLucy & Desidirected by Amy Poehler andWe Feed People.
Television productions include the upcomingGenius: MLK/X(Disney+),Wu-Tang: An American Saga(Hulu),Swagger(Apple),Under the Banner of Heaven(FX); andEmily in Paris(Netflix) from Jax Media.
Additional documentary productions include theCrime Sceneanthology series The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,The Times Square KillerandThe Texas Killing Fields all of which reached the top #5 globally on Netflix, as well asJulia,Paper & Glue,Rebuilding Paradiseand JigsawsTiger(HBO), to name a few.
Other projects coming up for Imagine on the film side includeThe Beanie Bubble, from Kristen Gore and Damian Kulash; the Reginald Hudlin-directedCandy Cane Lanestarring Eddie Murphy; and the animated feature,The Family Treehorn.
