EXCLUSIVE : As we revealed on the eve of the Cannes market, indie film stalwart Stuart Ford and longtime business partner Miguel Palos of AGC Studios have re-upped their deals at the company and are lining up what they describe as the company’s “most prolific and profitable year so far”. The CEO and COO have worked together across two companies for the best part of two decades, weathering global financial crises, the streaming wars, Covid, union strikes, and large-scale consolidation. Ford is the largest shareholder in AGC Studios but founding investors remain ImageNation (out of Abu Dhabi), Latin American investment fund Media Net and Silicon Valley private equity investor Greg Clark. AGC Television is currently shooting  Embassy , the geo-political action thriller series starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and J.K. Simmons, and also Beatles biopic series  Hamburg Days . The firm recently produced MGM+ mystery thriller series  Vanished,  starring Kaley Cuoco and Sam Claflin.…