Former Sky Exec Jack Oliver To Lead Development At Dash Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Oliver, the former Head of Co-Productions at Sky , has joined Dash Pictures .

He joins the UK-based indie label as it pushes deeper into the high-end docs space, as well as into scripted TV and independent film. Deadline recently broke the news of Dash’s first movie, Better , a psychological thriller starring Tom Hopper ( The Umbrella Academy ) that recently completed filming.

Oliver has taken the newly-created position of Head of Development and Executive Producer at Dash, which was founded by Daniel Sharp. He is a seasoned exec, having been at Sky for a decade before departing earlier this year, as first reported by Deadline. Prior to Sky, Oliver spent two decades at the BBC , working in the pubcaster’s acquisitions department and on titles including 2