Goldcrest makes key creative hire

Filmed entertainment company Goldcrest has hired award-winning colourist Jet Omoshebi to spearhead its high-end TV department.

She joins Goldcrest as senior colourist in January 2018.

Omoshebi was previously senior colourist at Deluxe’ Encore Post in London where she graded television series including Fortitude, The Night Manager, Da Vinci’s Demons and Luther.  She has also worked at MPC, SVC, Rushes and Digital Film Lab.

She won the RTS Craft Award for picture enhancement for Life On Mars and was named no.1 colourist in a Televisual VFX Artists poll.

Goldcrest has recently completed new production facilities to accommodate work on episodic drama.

Omoshebi said: “You only have to look at the enormously high-profile titles and outstanding quality of the work Goldcrest is doing to see this is a really exciting time to be joining. The team is truly exceptional and I’m looking forward to working with them.”

Managing director of Goldcrest Post Patrick Malone said: “Jet is genuinely amongst the best in the business and this appointment is a very real indication of our commitment toreinforcing our position as the number one destination for makers of long form and theatrical entertainment.”

Goldcrest is based in London and New York, and oversees the production, distribution and marketing of in-house productions and third-party acquisitions.