Stuart Ford

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 and financiers in the industry. UK-born and Oxford educated, Ford is a former entertainment attorney and 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 Asia, Latin America and Europe.

In February 2018 Ford launched AGC Studios, a new 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 television, digital, and musical content from its dual headquarters in Los Angeles and London. The studio’s Hollywood output has a wide-ranging multicultural focus, designed for exploitation across an array of global platforms including major studio partnerships, streaming platforms, traditional broadcast and cable television networks, and independent distributors, both in the US and internationally.

As a producer and financier Ford has worked with a huge array of leading talent including directors such as Martin Scorsese, Gary Ross, Mel Gibson, Doug Liman, Neil Burger, Roland Emmerich, Tom Ford, Richard Linklater and Neill Blomkamp and acting stars such as Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Kevin Costner, Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey, Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Jason Statham, Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Sir Ben Kingsley.

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. 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 also been profiled amongst the annual Variety 500 most influential figures in global entertainment.