MK2 Films has tapped Vanessa Saal, the former managing director at Protagonist Pictures, as executive consultant and U.K. lead. The key strategic hire underscores the company’s ambitions to scale up co-productions and acquisitions, including with English language projects. Based in London, Saal will work alongside the company’s co-CEO Nathanael Karmitz and managing director Fionnuala Jamison. […]