Anna Bonaddio.
Factual Talent Manager
Anna is Expectation’s factual talent manager. She brings the best TV talent to join our award-winning team. She is committed to supporting up-and-coming talent, collaborating with a wide range of factual talent schemes and setting up mentoring relationships for the prestigious Edinburgh TV Festival’s ‘Ones to Watch’, which kickstarted her own career when she joined the ’96 cohort.
She started at the BBC, researching for Jane Treays and discovering director Joe Wright for ‘10×10’ new directors, then progressed into developing factual formats and documentaries for indies including Keo, Blast, Renegade and Wall to Wall: her commissions include Channel 4’s long-running ‘Child Genius’ series and the Grierson-nominated ‘Excluded: Kicked out of School’.
Anna is from a diverse socio-economic background. Improving inclusion and equality of opportunity in our industry, and sharing her network, is at the heart of what she does.