Lourdes Diaz has been upped to partner at AGC Studios, signing a new multi-year contract with Stuart Ford’s independent production and sales group, AGC unveiled on Monday.
Diaz joined AGC in 2018, heading up its freshly-launched television division, where she oversaw such projects as War of the Worlds, starring Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar-Jones, which aired on Epix in the U.S., and the Australian crime series Troppo, starring Thomas Jane. Diaz was an executive producer on the hit Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler and helped set up Roland Emmerich’s upcoming Roman gladiator series Those About to Die, which is set to go out on Peacock stateside this July. In 2022, Diaz was promoted to chief creative officer at AGC.
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AGC Studios presented Diaz’s promotion as a sign of stability at the indie group, coming after new multi-year contracts for both Ford as chairman and CEO, and for chief operating officer Miguel Palos.
“Ever since her arrival in the early months of AGC’s existence, Lourdes has been a hugely influential contributor to the company’s explosive growth,” Ford and Palos said in a statement. “Aside from building a highly respected scripted television operation, in her broader role as chief creative officer, she has shaped key decisions on the feature film and unscripted sides of the company, helped kickstart our Family and YA division and has made us a very visible player in the Hispanic film and TV sector. She’s a beloved and absolutely integral part of the community and the culture we’ve built at AGC and we’re honored to make her our business partner and welcome her to the board.”
Diaz said she wanted to continue building AGC “as the go-to home for filmmaker-driven features and television in the independent market.”
On the film side AGC Studios, which is backed by Latin American private asset management firm MediaNet Partners; Image Nation Abu Dhabi, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Greg Clark, can point to titles like Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, and Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut Woman of the Hour, both of which sold to Netflix.
Upcoming projects include Ron Howard’s psychological thriller feature Eden, starring Ana De Armas, Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Kirby and Daniel Brühl; Justin Kurzel’s white supremacist thriller The Order with Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan; and the Will Smith action thriller Sugar Bandits. The latter is still in preproduction.
Prior to joining AGC, Diaz worked at Univision Communications Inc. as president of entertainment, was head of global production and development at Viacom International and vp primetime programming at NBC and Universal Media Studios.
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