Keoni Kailimai (UK)
Assistant Commissioning Editor
BBC

Keoni is the Assistant Commissioning Editor and for BBC Storyville and Factual Acquisitions

He works across the BBC’s award-winning international documentary strand as well as the network’s co-productions and acquisitions remit. He comes from a background in the British indie sector and has also held stints working within international development, co-funding and programme launches at the American broadcaster NBCUniversal. He’s Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Indigenous Native Hawaiian, and proudly calls the ancestral districts of Kohala and Waimea, Hawaiʻi his homeland.


Company Bio

The BBC Factual Acquisitions team is part of BBC Content’s (television) factual commissioning department. We are responsible for buying factual films and programmes that complement the BBC’s original programming with carefully considered content that represents the best in global filmmaking.

 

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