Biography

Los Angeles based Stuart Ford is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AGC Studios and is one of the most experienced and prolific independent film and television producers, financiers and entrepreneurs working in the entertainment industry today. UK born and Oxford University educated, Ford is a former entertainment attorney and Miramax Films senior studio executive who in 2007 founded IM Global, which over the next ten years he built into one of the industry's leading independent film and television production, financing and sales platforms with ancillary talent management and corporate publicity businesses across North America, South East Asia, India, Latin America and Europe.

In February 2018 Ford launched so-called "super-indie" AGC Studios, an international film and television production and licensing company that develops, produces, finances and globally licenses a diverse portfolio of feature films, scripted, unscripted and factual content with major corporate backing from Silicon Valley, Latin America and the Middle East. Since its inception AGC has been involved with more than 45 major film and television productions.

As a producer and financier Ford has worked with a huge array of leading directors such as Martin Scorsese, Gary Ross, Mel Gibson, Ron Howard, Doug Liman, Neil Burger, James Wan, Scott Derrickson, Roland Emmerich, Tom Ford and Richard Linklater. He has produced or executive produced more than seventy films and television shows and has assembled in excess of $2 billion in independent production financing from North America, India, China, Latin America and the Middle East during his career. Ford has also established AGC Television as a leading independent studio with a variety of heavyweight scripted shows. Now streaming, "Those About To Die" had a $165m budget for its first season and is one of the biggest scale television shows ever financed by an independent studio.

Aside from being an acknowledged industry expert and innovator in assembling film and television financing and distribution strategies, Ford has been one of the industry's leading champions of international cinema and in tandem with his prolific Hollywood output has launched successful sales and distribution businesses respectively specializing in Latin American, Chinese language and Bollywood content as well as a Beijing based corporate PR company Go Global and a Latinx talent management company Valor Entertainment. Ford also has extensive experience working alongside the Arabic language film and television community including acting as executive producer and worldwide distributor on $40m Arabic language thriller "Al Kameen" from Pierre Morel and $100m+ Arabian epic "Desert Warrior" from Rupert Wyatt.

In 2015 IM Global and Ford were the recipient of Variety's Achievement in International Film Award and Ford has also been listed by the UK's Guardian newspaper as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Global Cinema. In May of 2023, Ford was the recipient of Variety's "Billion Dollar Producer" award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Ford is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He has been profiled in 2021, 2022 and 2023 amongst the annual Variety 500 most influential figures in global entertainment.
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