Mary Calderwood Managing Director

Mary has built a rich, eclectic history over the last few decades, effortlessly shifting from publishing and TV broadcast into video and film.

Emerging in the 80's as publisher of the notoriously successful youth magazine 'Smash Hits', she doubled the readership and completely eclipsed all opposition to achieve a circulation of over 650,000. She went on to cement it's success with the pioneering 'Annual Smash Hits Poll Winners Party', which was to be one of the first live events of it's kind.

Then followed a string of projects, amongst which was the international launch of the world-renowned film industry publication 'Empire' magazine, the firm foundations and success of which are still very much intact.

A succession of work with the BBC then paved the way for her decision to move in to music TV programming. Honing her skills at the helm of Activate productions she produced programs such as Dance Energy, a black music and fashion series commissioned by BBC 2 that ran for three years, and is still cited as a template for quality music and youth programming for today.

Over the last 10 years Mary has become a major force in the world of music videos and now commercials, developing both the directors and her company, and shaping it in to one of the industries frontrunners in innovative and original film making.

Her commitment to developing new directors bears all the hallmarks of her ambition, launching from out of nowhere some of the biggest names in directing talent, including the enormously successful and influential minds of Chris Cunningham, John Hardwick, Sam Brown, Paul Gore and the latest off spring from Flynn, Karni & Saul.

Email:	mary@flynnproductions.com
Tel:	+44 (0) 207 251 6197
Fax:	+44 (0) 207 251 6272