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Nuala Quinn-Barton

CEO & Founder · Producer · Casting

CEO of Mania Entertainment LLC, the parent company of The Film Co-Operative, with more than thirty years working alongside Hollywood executives and major studios in the United States and Britain.

Biography

Thirty years of getting films made

Nuala Quinn-Barton is the CEO of Mania Entertainment LLC, the parent company of The Film Co-Operative, and an executive, consultant and producer in the visual and entertainment arts. She is an International Partner with the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) and the International Chamber of Arts (ICA), affiliated partners of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI). With WBAF she supports its mission to strengthen global economic development by improving access to finance and fostering innovative investment instruments for entrepreneurs, startups, scaleups and SMEs.

Over more than thirty years she has built extensive global experience in fundraising, film development and production, financial and film packaging, casting, distribution management, talent representation, brand strategy, post-production, and film and television finance.

She holds leadership roles and board positions at several companies, including EdgyTV Luxembourg, Galatia Films LLC, Mania Entertainment UK and The Film Co-Operative LLC. She has developed strong film industry relationships in China and India, securing and managing actors, writers, musicians, singers, songwriters and composers, and has built an international wholesale, retail and online apparel, accessories and cosmetics business for major global retailers.

More recently she has focused on technology and where it is taking film: “Traditional film budgets can be halved using new 3D technology from companies such as The Third Floor and Unreal Engine, using previsualization, postvisualization and virtual reality. This arena is very exciting!” That vision now drives CineLeap, The Film Co-Operative’s production-technology platform.  In October 2026 it was announced that CineLeap, would form a strategic partnership with SP Cinecorp Cinematic Venture Ltd. the Indian content and distribution group behind SP Rupam Studios. Cinecorp to serve as CineLeap’s first-look partner for Indian-territory distribution of CineLeap produced

Films.

Born in Ireland, Nuala graduated in English and European Studies from the University of East Anglia and studied Fashion Design at the Lucie Clayton Academy in London, where she was also a fashion model. She speaks French and German and understands Italian and Spanish.

Selected credits

Films and television

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Executive Producer · Financial Consultant · Financial Packaging

The Third Half

Executive Producer · Film Development Finance · Financial Packaging

Homecoming

Executive Producer · Casting

The Correction Unit

Producer · Investor · Consulting Producer · Financial Packaging

St Trinians

Consultant · Casting

Lawn Dogs

Creative Consultant · Casting

Closing the Ring

Creative Assistant · Casting

A Ring of Endless Light

Creative Consultant · Casting

The Hoarder

Film Packaging & Casting

Gore Orphanage

Distribution Co-Ordinator

Wieland

Distribution Co-Ordinator

In The Cards

Producer · Casting

Watch

Trailers

Homecoming

Goodbye Christopher Robin

The Third Half

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