Jamie Hall | Speakers for Schools

Jamie Hall

President, Vice Studios

Jamie Hall is currently Co-President of Vice Studios Group, which oversees five premium production entities: Pulse Films, Vice Studios, Vice Studios LatAm, Vice Studios Canada & Vice Distribution.

Hall, who has been with Pulse Films since 2018, most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Scripted Content. Based in the company’s London offices, Hall managed the strategic and commercial growth opportunities for the company’s brand and programming.

Under Hall’s leadership, the scripted division at Pulse Films has expanded with a strong development slate and series such as the Sky hit Gangs of London, which is now in its third season, and the upcoming Sky original action-adventure Atomic. Feature films include hybrid documentary Pavement, which premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, upcoming satirical comedy Bad Apples starring Saoirse Ronan, Mogul Mowgli starring Riz Ahmed, and Nicholas Cage film Pig. As COO, he leads all commercial negotiations on deals including onscreen and off-screen talent. A champion of diversity and wellbeing, Jamie has also supported a number of working practices on productions to ensure diversity, inclusion and mental health are key priorities.

Jamie Hall is the former COO of Frank Spotnitz’s London and Paris-based Big Light Productions where he oversaw strategic partnerships and financing for entertainment projects. Productions under his watch included the CBS series Ransom, The Indian Detective starring comedian Russell Peters for CTV, the drama Medici: Masters of Florence, starring Richard Madden and Dustin Hoffman, and Amazon’s The Man in The High Castle.

Jamie previously worked at Eleven as Head of Commercial Affairs where he oversaw, among others, Jack Thornes Glue, the BAFTA-nominated miniseries The Enfield Hauntings which became one of Sky’s highest rated programmes.

Prior to Eleven, Jamie was Group Head of Production at Lime Pictures, with overall responsibility for Drama and Non-Scripted series. The company’s 160+ hours of TV production comprised of programming such as Joe Aherne’s Apparitions for BBC1, Sally Wainwright’s Bonkers for ITV1 and Caleb Ranson’s The Outsiders for ITV. Jamie was a leader in the diversification of Lime’s programming, such as Living on the Edge for MTV, and devised the technology and production processes for ITV’s hit show The Only Way Is Essex, now in its thirty-third series.