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UK FEATURES CATALOGUE 2019
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
CURRENT FEATURES 6
COMING SOON IN 2019/2020
FORTHCOMING FEATURES 34
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 42
BRITISH COUNCIL & FESTIVALS 44
BRITISH COUNCIL NEW TALENT & SHORTS 46
BRITISH COUNCIL GLOBAL PROJECTS 48
INDEX OF FILMS 50
Cover: Calm with Horses, Director: Nick Rowland
1ST Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol
All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may
not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. 3
INTRODUCTION
UK Features Catalogue 2019 About Us
This Catalogue includes details of many of the UK feature The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for
productions and official co-productions either currently cultural relations and educational opportunities, working
screening on the global festival circuit or in the final stages in over 100 countries. Its Film team links UK films and
of production. It has been compiled by the British Council’s filmmakers with international audiences and creatives,
Film team, whose programme celebrates and promotes UK profiling innovation, diversity and excellence, and finding
film and filmmakers year-round. You can view a list of UK opportunities for creative exchange between UK and
titles currently In Production, as well as details of recently international film networks.
completed shorts and features in our UK Films Directory,
as well as further directories listing both UK filmmakers and It provides a preview screening service for selectors from
international film festivals, at www.britishcouncil.org/film major film festivals, including Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and
You can also find regularly updated catalogues of Short Sundance; works with a worldwide network of international
Films and Documentaries at bit.ly/ukfilmcatalogue partners to develop imaginative film projects, and arranges
for filmmakers and expert film industry specialists to
represent the UK abroad. It maintains an extensive on-line
UK Films Directory; represents the UK within European
Film Promotion (EFP); offers Travel Grants to help short
filmmakers attend selected international film festivals; and
offers Lab Travel Grants to support new and emerging
filmmakers to attend international training labs.
British Council representatives at Cannes 2019
Briony Hanson: Director, Film
Briony.Hanson@britishcouncil.org
Joanna Duncombe: Film Programme Manager, New Talent
Joanna.Duncombe@britishcouncil.org
Rowan Woods: Film Programme Manager, Festivals
Rowan.Woods@britishcouncil.org
Questions?
Contact films@britishcouncil.org
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Rare Beasts, Director: Billie Piper 5
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CURRENT FEATURES
Sorry We Missed You, Director: Ken Loach
Animals Bait
Synopsis Synopsis
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies, whose Behind the picture postcard idyll of a Cornish fishing village
hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of alienation, resentment and anger bubble away. The view may
adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious be beautiful, but you can’t eat it. Martin Ward, is a cove-
pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal. fishermen without a boat, infuriated with his brother for
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres - using the family vessel for day-tripping, and with a brooding
World premiere resentment for tourists flocking to the village while locals
are relegated to an estate on the hill. Nearing the end of the
Details summer season, an argument over a parking space with
Year: 2019 the incomers who bought his old family home comes to
Running Time: 109 mins represent all that is wrong with the world for Martin. Tensions
Director: Sophie Hyde rise and when a misguided prank and retaliation escalates
Producer: Sarah Brocklehurst, Rebecca Summerton, to tragedy the brothers are forced to unite and face the
Cormac Fox, Sophie Hyde, Rebecca Summeton future together. Shifting light, captured on B&W 16mm film
Executive Producer: Mark Gooder, Celine Haddad, and processed by hand, offers a grainy black and white
Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Mikko Leino, Compton Ross, polemic; the state of the nation seen through a family lens.
Alison Thompson, Ari Tolppanen Rugged cliffs, stark seascapes, working hands, silent faces,
Editor: Bryan Mason the screech of a gull, the smoke from a barbeque, clashing
Screenwriter: Emma Jane Unsworth (screenplay, novel) classes, tensions building, a casual theft, a threat issued, a
Director of Photography: Bryan Mason punch thrown, retribution, high tide, low water, laughter at
Production Designer: Louise Mathews dusk, regret in the morning, beauty, anger, compassion, hope.
Music: Zoë Barry, Jed Palmer Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum - World premiere
Principal Cast: Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Amy Molloy,
Elva Trill, Olwen Fouéré, Fra Fee Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: Mark Jenkin
Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite
Executive Producer: Kate Byers, Linn Waite
Editor: Mark Jenkin
Screenwriter: Mark Jenkin
Production Company Sales Agent Director of Photography: Mark Jenkin
Ireland, Australia, UK Cornerstone Films Production Designer: Mae Voogd
co-production WeWork Sound: Dan Thompson
1 Fore Street Music: Thea Gilmore, The Malarkey, Gwenno
A Vico Films (IE), Closer
London Principal Cast: Edward Rowe, Simon Shepherd,
Productions (AU) Sarah
EC2Y 5EJ Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Chloe Endean, Georgia Ellery,
Brocklehurst Productions (UK)
+44 (0)20 3457 7257
production in association with Isaac Woodvine, Jowan Jacobs
office@cornerstonefilm.com
Head Gear Films (UK), Kreo Films
www.cornerstonefilm.com
FZ (AE), Metrol Tehnology (UK),
with support from Adelaide Film
Festival (AU), Creative England
(UK), Irish Film Board (IE), Kojo
Post (AU), Screen Australia (AU),
South Australian Film Corporation
(AU), M1 Capital, Aristo Invest
Production Company Sales Agent
Head Gear Films Early Day Films Limited The Festival Agency
Ashley House, 5th Floor Stanley House 44 Rue de Cléry
12 Great Portland Street Totterdown 75002 Paris
London Bristol France
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+44 (0)20 7363 6085 info@earlydayfilms.com info@thefestivalagency.com
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www.headgearfilms.com
CURRENT FEATURES 7
Beats Blinded by the Light
Synopsis Synopsis
A universal story of friendship, rebellion and the irresistible 1987. When music fanatic Javed discovers the illustrious back
power of gathered youth. Set to a soundtrack as eclectic and catalogue of Bruce Springsteen his world is turned upside
electrifying as the scene it gave birth to, Beats is a story for down; already a creative soul his passion for music and
our time. writing is set alight by the songs of the working-class poet,
whose lyrics feel all too familiar to the aspirational teenager.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam
Yearning to escape his rundown hometown and the rules
(IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere
of his traditional Pakistani household, Javed finds himself
caught in between two worlds and must discover if he too
Details
is ‘Born to Run…’ Based on the memoir of lauded Guardian
Year: 2019
journalist Sarfraz Manzoor, this timely coming of age story
Running Time: 96 mins
proves that the right song has the capacity to transcend
Director: Brian Welsh
race, religion and place, tap into our hearts and help us
Producer: Camilla Bray
discover who we really are.
Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh
Editor: Robin Hill Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres -
Screenwriter: Kieran Hurley, Brian Welsh World premiere
Director of Photography: Benjamin Kracun
Production Designer: Víctor Molero Details
Music: JD Twitch (Optimo) Year: 2019
Principal Cast: Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser, Running Time: 114 mins
Gemma McElhinney, Rachel Jackson Director: Gurinder Chadha
Producer: Gurinder Chadha, Jane Barclay, Jamal Daniel
Editor: Justin Krish
Screenwriter: Sarfraz Mansoor, Gurinder Chadha,
Paul Mayeda Berges
Director of Photography: Ben Smithard
Production Designer: Nick Ellis
Principal Cast: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Hayley Atwell,
Sally Phillips, Rob Brydon, Nell Williams
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
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c/o Sixteen Films London support from BFI 1 Fore Street
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The Day Shall Come Diego Maradona
Synopsis Synopsis
An impoverished preacher in Miami is offered cash to save Having never won a major tournament, ailing football giants
his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for SSC Napoli had criminally underachieved. Their fanatical
the FBI, who plan to turn him into a criminal by fuelling his support was unequalled in both passion and size. None was
madcap revolutionary dreams. more feared. But how they ached for success... On 5th July
1984, Diego Maradona arrived in Naples for a world-record
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
fee and for seven years all hell broke loose. The world’s most
celebrated football genius and the most dysfunctional city
Details
in Europe were a perfect match for each other. Maradona
Year: 2019
was blessed on the field but cursed off it; the charismatic
Running Time: 87 mins
Argentine quickly led Naples to their first-ever title. It was
Director: Chris Morris
the stuff of dreams. But there was a price… Diego could
Producer: Iain Canning, Anne Carey, Emile Sherman
do as he pleased whilst performing miracles on the pitch,
Editor: Billy Sneddon
but when the magic faded he became almost a prisoner of
Screenwriter: Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong
the city. The third film from the Academy Award and multi
Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
BAFTA-winning team behind Senna and Amy, this definitive
Production Designer: Lucio Seixas
feature documentary was made with Maradona’s full
Music: Jonathan Whitehead, Sebastian Rochford,
support, constructed from over 500 hours of
Chris Morris
never-before-seen footage from his personal archive. In
Principal Cast: Marchant Davis, Anna Kendrick, Pej Vahdat,
a city where the devil would have needed bodyguards,
Danielle Brooks, Calah Lane, Kayvan Novak, James Adomian,
Maradona became bigger than God himself. This is the wild
Danielle Brooks, Denis O’Hare
and unforgettable story of God-given talent, glory, despair
and betrayal, of corruption and ultimately redemption.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Out of
Competition - World premiere
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Asif Kapadia
Producer: James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin
Executive Producer: George Pank, Julian Bird, Will Clarke
Editor: Chris King
Music: Antonio Pinto
Archival Producer: Lina Caicedo, Fiammetta Luino
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, US co-production FilmNation Entertainment A Film4, Lorton Entertainment, Altitude Film Sales
A See-Saw Films (UK), Archer 150 West 22nd Street, 9th Floor On the Corner Films production (World sales except US)
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CURRENT FEATURES 9
1ST
Dirty God A Dog Called Money
Synopsis Synopsis
Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid Award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy has made
attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been a film that investigates the creative process behind his
reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. On a project with PJ Harvey. While tracing the sources of songs
self-destructive path with her relationships crumbling, Jade and detailing the journey of their birth, he brings to life the
must take drastic action to reclaim her life. people and places at their very heart.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama Dokumente -
(IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World
Details
Cinema Dramatic Competition - International premiere
Year: 2019
Running Time: 90 mins
Details
Director: Seamus Murphy
Year: 2019
Producer: Isabel Davis, Katie Holly, James Wilson,
Running Time: 105 mins
Seamus Murphy
Director: Sacha Polak
Co-Producer: Evan Horan
Producer: Marleen Slot, Michael Elliott
Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford,
Co-Producer: Dries Phlypo
Tim O’Shea, Jim Reeve, Laura Macara, Celine Haddad, Kieron
Executive Producer: Isabel Davis, Clea De Koning,
J. Walsh, Brian Message, Sumit Bothra, Sebastian Gollek
Frank Klein, Eva Yates
Editor: Sebastian Gollek
Editor: Sander Vos
Screenwriter: Seamus Murphy
Screenwriter: Sacha Polak, Susie Farrell
Director of Photography: Seamus Murphy
Director of Photography: Ruben Impens
Sound: Seamus Murphy; Sound Design: Brendan Rehill Music:
Production Designer: Sanne Schat
Polly Jean Harvey
Music: Rutger Reinders
Principal Cast: PJ Harvey
Principal Cast: Vicky Knight, Katherine Kelly, Eliza Brady-
Girard, Rebecca Stone, Bluey Robinson, Dana Marienci
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Netherlands, United Kingdom, Independent Ireland, UK co-production Autlook Films
Belgium, Ireland co-production 195 Wardour Street A Pulse Films (UK), Blinder Films Salma Abdalla
An Independent (UK), A Private London (IE), JW Films (UK) production Spittelberggasse 3/14
View (BE), BFI Film Fund (UK), W1F 8ZG in association with Fís Éireann/ 1070 Vienna
EMU Films (UK), Viking Film (NL) +44 (0)207 257 8734 Screen Ireland (IE), Somerset Austria
production mail@independentfilmcompany.com House (UK), Artangel (UK) with +43 720 346934
www.independentfilmcompany.com support of ATC Management (UK), salma@autlookfilms.com
Independent www.autlookfilms.com
Great Point Media (UK)
195 Wardour Street
London Pulse Films
W1F 8ZG 17 Hanbury Street
+44 (0)207 257 8734 London
mail@independentfilmcompany.com E1 6QR
www.independentfilmcompany.com +44 (0)20 7426 5700
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EMU Films
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+44 (0)20 7183 0925
info@emufilms.com JW Films
www. emufilms.com +44 (0)20 76121263
10 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
First Love (Hatsukoi) For Sama
Synopsis Synopsis
Taking place over one night in Tokyo, Leo, a down-on-his- A feature documentary telling the astonishing story of
luck young boxer meets his first love, Monica, a call girl and 26-year old female Syrian filmmaker, Waad al-Kateab, who
an addict but who is still an innocent. Monica unwittingly filmed her life in rebel-held Aleppo through five years of
gets caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are the Syrian uprising. She fell in love, got married and had a
pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, Leo’s daughter all while filming the violence raging around her
nemesis and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads. and in particular documenting the challenges the conflict
imposed on women and children. Along with a close group
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors’
of friends, she stayed in the city to fight for her dream of
Fortnight - World premiere
a free Syria, a struggle that ended in their defeat and exile.
The film weaves together her intimate, emotive footage
Details
with her struggle to come to terms with the trauma she
Year: 2019
has witnessed. It’s an outstanding story, by turns beautiful,
Running Time: 108 mins
shocking, surprising and uplifting. Waad is a symbol for our
Director: Takashi Miike
times, the epitome of a bold, brave woman prepared to risk
Producer: Muneyuki Kii, Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka
her life for what she believes, in a year when women are
Director of Photography: Nobuyasu Kita
finally becoming the heroes of their own stories. Hers is an
Screenwriter: Masaru Nakamura
epic tale of the survival of love and courage amid the cruelty
Editor: Akira Kamiya
of war.
Sound: Jun Nakamura
Music: Kôji Endô Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Documentary Feature
Principal Cast: Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Competition - World premiere
Sometani, Sakurako Konishi, Becky, Jun Murakami Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - International Spectrum
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Special
Screening - European premiere
Details
Year: 2019
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Producer: Waad al-Kateab
Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro, George Waldrum,
Siobhan Sinnerton, Ben de Pear, Raney Aronson-Rath
Editor: Chloe Lambourne, Simon McMahon
Director of Photography: Waad al-Kateab
Music: Nainita Desai
Senior Producer: Dan Edge
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
An Oriental Light and Magic (JP), HanWay Films George Waldrum Autlook Filmsales
Recorded Picture Company (UK), 8 Basing Street ITN Productions Spittelberggasse 3/14
Toei Company (JP) production London 200 Grays Inn Rd 1070 Vienna
Recorded Picture Company W11 1ET London Austria
8 Basing Street +44 (0)20 7290 0750 WC1X 8XZ +43 7 203 46934
London info@hanwayfilms.com +44 (0)7971 095 674 salma@autlookfilms.com
W11 1ET www.hanwayfilms.com george.waldrum@itnproductions.com www.autlookfilms.com
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CURRENT FEATURES 111ST
The Gasoline Thieves Good Posture
(Huachicolero)
Synopsis Synopsis
Living with his mother and working as a farmhand in his Set in current day Brooklyn, the story of Lilian, a lazy but
hometown, fourteen-year-old Lalo sees buying a smartphone charming and beautiful young woman who, having broken
for his high-school crush the only surefire way into her up with her boyfriend, has been placed into the care of
heart. When his mother is forced to use his savings in order family friend and famed reclusive author, Julia Price. To
to pay for medical bills, Lalo decides to approach the local impress her ex-boyfriend, and the other cynics around her,
huachicoleros for help, who quickly enlist his aid in their Lilian suddenly decides to make a documentary on Julia
business of illegally siphoning gas in order to take advantage – albeit an unauthorised one – with surprisingly amusing
of the country’s shortage and re-sell on the black market. As results.
Lalo naively becomes more involved with the huachicoleros’ Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Spotlight
work, an uneasy air of violence begins to overtake the world Narrative - World premiere
around him, while investigators narrow their search for those
responsible. Details
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - International Year: 2019
Narrative Competition - World premiere Running Time: 91 mins
Director: Dolly Wells
Winner: Best New Narrative Director Award - Tribeca Film
Producer: Jamie Adams, Maggie Monteith
Festival 2019
Co-Producer: Ken Farrington
Editor: Adelina Bichis
Details
Screenwriter: Dolly Wells
Year: 2019
Director of Photography: Ryan Eddleston
Running Time: 93 mins
Production Designer: Charlotte Abbott
Director: Edgar Nito
Principal Cast: Emily Mortimer, Grace Van Patten,
Producer: Victor Leycegui, Annick Mahnert, Joshua Sobel
Condola Rashad, Nat Wolff
Executive Producer: Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh, Sonia Lowe
Editor: Sam Baixauli
Screenwriter: Alfredo Mendoza, Edgar Nito
Director of Photography: Juan Pablo Ramírez
Music: Carlo Ayhllón
Principal Cast: Eduardo Banda, Pedro Joaquin,
Regina Reynoso, Fernando Becerril, Pascacio López,
Leonardo Alonso
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Mexico, Spain, UK, US AMP International A Dignity Film Finance and Talland AMP International
co-production Timo Suomi Films production Timo Suomi
18 Finsbury Square 18 Finsbury Square
AMP International (UK), Pirotecnia Talland Films
London London
Films (MX), Screen Division (FR) c/o Dignity Film Finance
EC2A 1AH EC2A 1AH
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AMP International +44 (0)20 7535 6714 +44 (0)20 7535 6714
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Timo Suomi timo@amp-film.com timo@amp-film.com
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12 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
Last Breath The Last Tree
Synopsis Synopsis
A commercial diver is stranded on the seabed with only five Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a happy
minutes of oxygen supply, but with no chance of rescue for childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to
more than 30 minutes. With access to amazing archive, this live with his mum. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and
is the true story of one man’s impossible fight for survival.It is values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure
Gravity meets Touching The Void – 100 metres underwater. out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase - means to be a young black man in London. Shola Amoo’s
International premiere second feature is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age
drama, which explores universal themes of identity and
Details belonging.
Year: 2019 Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World
Running Time: 86 mins Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere
Director: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa
Producer: Al Morrow, Angus Lamont, Stewart Le Marechal, Details
Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa, Dylan Williams Year: 2019
Executive Producer: Jonny Persey, Vesna Cudic, Leslie Finlay, Running Time: 100 mins
Tony Nellany Director: Shola Amoo
Editor: Sam Rogers Producer: Lee Thomas, Myf Hopkins
Screenwriter: Alex Parkinson, Richard Da Costa Editor: Mdhamiri Á Nkemi
Director of Photography: Alex Parkinson Screenwriter: Shola Amoo
Production Designer: Moley Campbell Director of Photography: Stil Williams
Production Designer: Antonia Lowe
Sound: Alex Ashcroft
Music: Segun Akinola
Principal Cast: Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo,
Tai Golding, Denise Black, Nicholas Pinnock
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Met Film Production Met Film Sales A Prodigal Film & TV production Great Point Media
Al Morrow Vesna Cudic with support of BFI, awarding 3rd Floor
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Floating Harbour Films MB
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CURRENT FEATURES 13Little Joe The Lodge
Synopsis Synopsis
Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at A psychologically chilling slow burn; a young woman and
a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has her reticent new stepchildren find themselves isolated in the
engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not family’s remote winter cabin, locked away to dredge up the
only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at mysteries of her dark past and the losses that seem to haunt
the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, them all.
this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres -
Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. They World premiere
christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so too does Alice’s
suspicion that her new creations may not be as harmless as Details
their nickname suggests. Year: 2019
Running Time: 100 mins
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition -
Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
World premiere
Producer: Simon Oakes, Aliza James, Aaron Ryder
Editor: Michael Palm
Details
Screenwriter: Sergio Casci, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Year: 2019
Director of Photography: Thimios Bakatakis
Running Time: 105 mins
Production Designer: Sylvain Lemaitre
Director: Jessica Hausner
Principal Cast: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh,
Producer: Bruno Wagner, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner,
Alicia Silverstone, Richard Armitage
Bertrand Faivre, Gerardine O’Flynn
Executive Producer: Rose Garnett, Mary Burke, Vincent
Gadelle, Marina Perales Marhuenda, Michel Merkt
Editor: Karina Ressler
Screenwriter: Jessica Hausner, Géraldine Bajard
Director of Photography: Martin Gschlacht
Sound: Malcolm Cromie, Erik Mischijev, Matz Müller
Music: Katharina Wöppermann
Principal Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox,
Kit Connor, David Wilmot, Phénix Brossard, Sebastian Hülk,
Lindsay Duncan
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
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Filmproduktion GmbH (DE)
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14 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
Make Me Up Mari
Synopsis Synopsis
Created by Scottish artist Rachel Maclean in 2018 to mark Boldly combining the power of dance and cinema, Mari
100 years since women were first given the right to vote tells the life-affirming story of professional dancer and
in the United Kingdom. Part horror movie, part comedy, choreographer Charlotte (Bobbi Jene Smith), as she
Make Me Up reflects on the shortcomings of our journey prepares for a new show. Uniquely using the poetic
towards equality throughout the past century. The film expression of dance to drive the narrative, Charlotte’s world
imagines a dystopian future where a group of women are is turned upside down when she discovers she is pregnant
trapped in a cruel reality TV-style competition in the brutal and also that her grandmother Mari is coming to the end of
modernist setting of St Peter’s Seminary. Here, voting is life, forcing her to confront her past in order to choose the
not a liberation – it is a harsh judgement the contestants future she wants. As the weekend with her family progresses,
must face. New arrival Siri learns the rules of a show where Charlotte’s own mortality sinks in, her identity unravels and
compliance and attractiveness are key. Emboldened by her truths about the women in her life surface. Lost, she is driven
growing friendship with fellow inmate Alexa, Siri finds ways to find new meaning in places she’d previously avoided
of sabotaging the system and discovers some terrible truths or dismissed, leaving her changed forever. With original
in the process. choreography, Mari follows Charlotte on a personal journey
that goes from her grandmother’s deathbed to the prospect
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 -
of motherhood.
Experimenta Special Presentation - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Create
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam
Strand - World premiere
(IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives
Details
Details
Year: 2018
Year: 2018
Running Time: 95 mins
Running Time: 85 mins
Director: Georgia Parris
Director: Rachel Maclean
Producer: Emma Duffy
Producer: John Archer, Angus Farqhuar
Executive Producer: Sam Cryer, Ian Davies, Rebecca Long,
Executive Producer: Sud Basu, Mark Bell, Clara Glynn,
Lesley Kirkland, Maxine Doyle
David Harron, Mark Thomas, Jenny Waldman
Editor: Napoleon Stratogiannakis
Director of Photography: David Liddell
Screenwriter: Georgia Parris
Music: Scott Twynholm
Director of Photography: Adam Scarth
Principal Cast: Rachel Maclean, Christina Gordon,
Principal Cast: Bobbi Jene Smith, Phoebe Nicholls, Madeleine
Colette Dalal Tchantcho
Worrall, Peter Singh
Choreographer: Maxine Doyle
Production Company
A Hopscotch Films, NVA
production.
Co-commissioned by 14-18 Production Company
NOW (WW1 Centenary Art A Small Town Film production
Commissions), BBC Arts. with the support of BBC Films,
Supported by Jerwood BFI, Creative Skillset and Film
Charitable Foundation, Creative London via the Microwave scheme
Scotland, Heritage Lottery Fund, in association with Intermission
Department for Digital, Culture, and Boudica Films
Media & Sport, IWM First World Small Town Films
War Centenary 338 Mare Street
Hopscotch Films London
John Archer E8 1HA
Film City Glasgow emma.l.duffy@gmail.com
401 Govan Road Georgia Parris
Glasgow www.georgiaparris.com
G51 2QJ
+44 (0)141 440 6740
john@hopscotchfilms.co.uk
www.hopscotchfilms.co.uk
CURRENT FEATURES 15Marianne & Leonard: Midnight Traveler
Words of Love
Synopsis Synopsis
A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan
Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. The film follows their Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee his home country with his
relationship from the early days on the idyllic Greek island of wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain
Hydra in 1960 as part of a bohemian community of foreign journey, Fazili shows first-hand the dangers facing refugees
artists, writers, and musicians, a time of ‘free love’ and open seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on
marriage; observing how their love evolved when Leonard the run.
became a successful musician. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - World
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere
Documentary Premieres - World premiere Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase
Details Details
Year: 2019 Year: 2019
Running Time: 97 mins Running Time: 87 mins
Director: Nick Broomfield Director: Hassan Fazili
Producer: Nick Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin, Shani Hinton, Producer: Emelie Mahdavian, Su Kim
Kyle Gibbon Co-Producer: Fatima Hussaini, Ahmad Imami
Executive Producer: Charles Finch, Patrick Holland, Editor: Emelie Mahdavian; Co-Editor: Kristina Motwani;
Jan Christian Mollestad, Lisa Savage, Tony Palmer, Consulting Editor: Nels Bangerter
Rudi Dolezal Screenwriter: Emelie Mahdavian
Editor: Marc Hoeferlin Sound: Supervising Sound
Director of Photography: Barney Broomfield Editor: Daniel Timmons
Music: Nick Laird-Clowes Music: Gretchen Jude
Archival Producer: Lisa Savage Principal Cast: Featuring: Nargis Fazili, Zahra Fazili,
Fatima Hussaini, Hassan Fazili
Cameras: Fatima Hussaini, Hassan Fazili, Nargis Fazili,
Zahra Fazili
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
US, UK co-production Kew Media Group US, UK, Qatar, Canada Doc & Film International
151 Shaftesbury Avenue co-production 13, Rue Portefoin
London 75003 Paris
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WC2H 8AL France
production
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london@kewmedia.com Midnight Traveler sales@docandfilm.com
www.kewmedia.com info@midnighttravelerfilm.com www.docandfilm.com
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16 CURRENT FEATURESMiles Davis: Birth of the Cool Official Secrets
Synopsis Synopsis
A visionary, innovator and originator who defied categorization Based on the true story of Katharine Gun, a former Mandarin
and embodied the word cool: a foray into the life and career of translator at the British intelligence agency GCHQ, who
musical and cultural icon Miles Davis. Using words from Miles made headlines after she leaked a confidential NSA memo
Davis’ autobiography, this film offers an incisive insight into that proposed the USA and UK put pressure on six ‘swing’
our understanding of the legendary musician. Newly released nations on the UN Security Council to vote in favour of the
archival material, alongside interviews with pre-eminent imminent 2003 Iraq invasion. The Observer newspaper in
historians and personal friends like Quincy Jones, illustrate the UK broke the story and Gun was subsequently arrested
a man of intensity and devotion to his craft. Despite the and charged under the Official Secrets Act, sparking a public
indignities of America during the time of segregation, nothing outcry. Authorities dropped the case almost as soon as her
was going to stop Davis from realising his dream: to create a trial began in early 2004.
new form of musical expression. Davis worked like a physicist Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres -
with his collaborators to push musical experimentation and World premiere
widen the tones and lyricism of jazz – the effects of which
are felt to this day. Delving into his past loves, personal Details
relationships and addictions, a clearer portrait of Davis the man Year: 2019
emerges. Davis is fearless and engaging throughout, and his Running Time: 112 mins
intellectual fervor is only tempered by his insecurities. Director Director: Gavin Hood
Stanley Nelson’s epic biopic collects the strands of a creative Producer: Ged Doherty, Elizabeth Fowler, Melissa Shiyu Zuo
life and weaves them together for us to understand one of the Co-Producer: Sarada McDermott
great modern American artists like never before. Executive Producer: Claudia Bluemhuber, Anne Sheehan,
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Hugo Heppell
Documentary Premieres - World premiere Screenwriter: Gregory Bernstein (screenplay), Sara Bernstein
(screenplay), Gavin Hood (screenplay)
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Special Presentations -
Director of Photography: Florian Hoffmeister
International premiere
Production Designer: Simon Rogers
Principal Cast: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes,
Details
Matthew Goode, Conleth Hill, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans,
Year: 2019
MyAnna Buring
Running Time: 113 mins
Director: Stanley Nelson Production Company Sales Agent
Producer: Nicole London, Stanley Nelson US, UK co-production Sierra / Affinity
Executive Producer: Terry Shand, Geoff Kempin, A Classified Films (UK), The Mark 9378 Wilshire Blvd. #210 Suite 210
Michael Kantor Gordon Company (US), eOne Beverly Hills
Editor: Lewis Erskine; Assistant Features (UK), Raindog Films (UK) CA 90212
Editor: Yusuf Kapadia production with support from USA
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Image: ©Firelight Films, Inc.
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Classified Films www.sierra-affinity.com
Production Company Prime Studios
US, UK co-production 94 - 96 Kirkstall Road
Leeds LS3 1HD
Firelight Films, Inc. (US)
+44 (0)113 204 5921
production with support of Eagle
Rock Film Productions (UK) eOne Features
45 Warren Street
Eagle Rock Film Productions
London
c/o Eagle Rock Entertainment
W1T 6AG
Eagle House
+44 (0)20 3691 8600
22 Armoury Way
features@entonegroup.com
London
www.features.eonefilms.com
SW18 1EZ
+44 (0)20 8870 5670 / Raindog Films
+44 (0)20 8875 8791 (ext. 510) 18 Broadwick Street, 4th Floor
mail@eagle-rock.com London W1F 8HS
www.eaglerockent.com ged@raindogfilms.com
CURRENT FEATURES 171ST
Pink Wall The Place of No Words
Synopsis Synopsis
A modern day romance following the six year relationship of A three year old asks his father an unanswerable question:
Jenna and Leon. Intimately told through defining moments “Where do we go when we die?” Together, they embark on
along their journey together, the film explores how both an epic journey of fantasy realms and mythical creatures in a
friendship and resentments grow as the pressures of adult quest for the answer.
life confront them.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - U.S. Narrative
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Narrative Spotlight - World Competition - World premiere
premiere
Details
Details Year: 2019
Year: 2019 Running Time: 95 mins
Running Time: 85 mins Director: Mark Webber
Director: Tom Cullen Producer: Dustin Hughes, Teresa Palmer, Mark Webber
Producer: Jamie Adams, Maggie Monteith, Richard Elis Editor: Mark Webber
Co-Producer: Tom Cullen, Tatiana Maslany Screenwriter: Mark Webber
Executive Producer: Chris Reed Screenwriter: Tom Cullen Director of Photography: Patrice Lucien Cochet
Director of Photography: Bobby Shore Production Designer: Ciaran Thompson
Principal Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Jay Duplass, Sule Rimi, Principal Cast: Mark Webber, Teresa Palmer, Bodhi Palmer,
Sarah Ovens, Ruth Ollman, Kyle Lima, T.J. Richardson Nicole Elizabeth Berger, Eric Olsen, Sarah Wright,
Phoebe Tonkin
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A Dignity Film Finance and AMP International UK, US, Australia co-production Inphenate
Talland Films, Two Flowers and a Timo Suomi Glenn Rigberg
King production with support of 18 Finsbury Square Beverly Hills
Freebie Film London CA 90212
EC2A 1AH USA
Dignity Film Finance
+44 (0)20 7535 6714 +1 310 601 7117
and Talland Films
timo@amp-film.com glenn@inphenate.com
Maggie Monteith
www.amp-film.com
Adrianna Allenby
maggie@dignity-group.co
adrianna@dignity-group.co
www.dignityfilmfinance.com
18 CURRENT FEATURES1ST
Rocketman Romantic Comedy
Synopsis Synopsis
The story of Elton John’s life, from his years as a prodigy A documentary that goes beneath the surface of our
at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and favourite films, seeking to better understand the way we
enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin. Much view love, relationships and romance. From It Happened
like the man himself, Rocketman is a larger-than-life movie One Night to Runaway Bride, from clumsy meet cutes to
musical spectacle that tells the story of Elton John - a child rain-soaked declarations of love, these films reflect our
prodigy turned music legend. experiences but are often just as problematic as they are
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Out of comforting. They’re hugely successful and deeply loved by
Competition - World premiere many, but - being frequently dismissed as guilty pleasures -
they have often avoided critical analysis. Helped by a diverse
Details chorus of critics, actors and filmmakers, and with original
Year: 2019 songs by her band Summer Camp, director Elizabeth Sankey
Running Time: 121 mins embarks on a journey of investigation and self-discovery.
Director: Dexter Fletcher Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam
Producer: Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid, (IFFR) 2019 - Voices - World premiere
Matthew Vaughn
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Visions
Executive Producer: Michael Gracey, Diane Hendricks, Elton
John, Karine Martin, Italo Marzotto, Tommaso Marzotto,
Details
Brian Oliver, Steve Hamilton Shaw, Claudia Vaughn, Matthew
Year: 2019
Vaughn; Co-Executive Producer: Jodi Sue Loeb, Danny
Running Time: 79 mins
Zamost
Director: Elizabeth Sankey
Screenwriter: Lee Hall
Producer: Jeremy Warmsley, Chiara Ventura, Oskar Pimlott
Director of Photography: George Richmond
Editor: Elizabeth Sankey
Production Designer: Marcus Rowland
Screenwriter: Elizabeth Sankey
Music: Matthew Margeson
Sound: Jeremy Warmsley
Principal Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden,
Music: Jeremy Warmsley
Gemma Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard
Principal Cast: Jessica Barden, Charlie Lyne, Simran Hans,
Brodie Lancaster, Anne T Donahue, Cameron Cooke,
Eleanor McDowall, Laura Snapes
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
UK, US co-production Good Universe Romantic Comedy Movie LTD
A Marv Films (UK), New Republic 9777 Wilshire Boulevard Elizabeth Sankey
Pictures (US), Paramount Pictures Suite #400 +44 (0)7890636093
(US) production in association Beverly Hills elizabethsankey@gmail.com
with Rocket Pictures (UK) CA 90212
USA
Marv Films +1 310 623 9840
2nd Floor info@good-universe.com
71 Queen Victoria Street
London
EC4V 4BE
info@marvfilms.com
www.marvstudios.com
Rocket Pictures
1 Blythe Rd
London
W14 0HG
+44 (0)20 7348 4800
contact@rocketpictures.co.uk
www.rocketpictures.co.uk
CURRENT FEATURES 19Rudeboy: The Story of Run
Trojan Records
Synopsis Synopsis
“The seeds for the multicultural society we live in now were The Northern Scottish town of Fraserburgh; where boys
formed on the dancefloor back in the day” says Don Letts become men through late-night drag racing as they dream
by way of introduction to Nicolas Jack Davies’ documentary of escapism. Like many, Finnie, a 36-year old former street
about Trojan Records, which celebrates its 50th anniversary racer, now works at the local fish factory with his teenage
this year. The company was founded by Windrush immigrant son, who is slowly following in his footsteps. One night,
Lee Gopthal, against a backdrop of rising racial hatred. struggling to deal with his inner turmoil, and no longer able
Rudeboy charts the label’s evolution from 1960s ska and to ignore the fact that he’s going nowhere, he decides to go
rock-steady to the chart-topping hits that introduced reggae for one final joyride and risks losing his family forever.
to a global audience, while also recalling the prejudice Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - International
that the music’s pioneering artists and producers had to Narrative Competition - World premiere
overcome in London. Blending original interviews with
evocative archive footage and cinematic reconstructions, the Details
film is a timely celebration of British Jamaican working-class Year: 2019
youth culture, style and ingenuity. Running Time: 78 mins
Official Selection IDFA 2018 - International premiere Director: Scott Graham
Producer: Margaret Matheson, Ciara Barry, Rosie Crerar
Details Screenwriter: Scott Graham
Year: 2018 Principal Cast: Mark Stanley, Marli Siu, Amy Manson,
Running Time: 86 mins Anders Hayward
Director: Nicolas Jack Davies
Producer: Sam Bridger, Vivienne Perry
Executive Producer: Thomas Benski, Marisa Clifford,
Kathy Rivkin Daum, Justus Haerder, Brian Levy
Editor: Chris Duveen
Director of Photography: Jonas Mortensen
Sound: Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Effects Editor:
Jay Price
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Jamaica co-production Submarine Entertainment Bard Entertainments Ltd Film Constellation
197 Grand Street, Suite 6W 57 Walnut Tree Walk 2nd Floor
Pulse Films
New York London 11 - 13 Charlotte Street
17 Hanbury Street
NY 10013 SE11 6DN London
London
USA +44 (0)20 7043 9749 W1T 1RH
E1 6QR
+1 212 625 1410 office@bardentertainments.co.uk info@filmconstellation.com
+44 (0)20 7426 5700
info@submarine.com www.bardentertainments.co.uk www.filmconstellation.com
info@pulsefilms.co.uk
www.submarine.com
www.pulsefilms.com Barry Crerar
Film City Glasgow
401 Govan Road
Glasgow
G51 2QJ
hello@barrycrerar.com
www.barrycrerar.com
20 CURRENT FEATURESScheme Birds Seahorse: The Dad Who
Gave Birth
Synopsis Synopsis
As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfil an age-old desire:
troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish starting his own family. This is the story of the dad who gave
steel town. But in a place where “you either get knocked up birth.
or locked up,” innocent games can easily turn into serious Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Documentary
crime. Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing Face of
Competition - World premiere Europe
Winner: Best Documentary Feature Award; Albert Maysles
New Documentary Director Award Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Details
Year: 2019
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing Face
Running Time: 94 mins
of Europe
Director: Jeanie Finlay
Producer: Andrea Cornwell
Details
Executive Producer: Patrick Vernon, Orlando von Einsiedel,
Year: 2019
Charlie Phillips
Running Time: 90 mins
Editor: Alice Powell
Director: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
Director of Photography: Richard Jephcote, Mark Bushnell
Producer: Mario Adamson, Ruth Reid
Sound: Pip Norton
Editor: Hanna Lejonqvist SFK
Music: Tara Creme
Screenwriter: Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
Commissioned by: BBC Storyville
Director of Photography: Ellinor Hallin
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
UK, Sweden co-production Syndicado A Grain Media Production in
Gid Films (UK), Sisyfos Film 121 Beaconsfield Avenue association with Glimmer Films
Production (SE) Toronto and The Guardian
Canada
Grain Media
+1 416 533 1743
Unit 3 Ashby Space
admin@syndicado.com
Ashby Mews
www.syndicado.com
London
SE4 1TB
+44 (0)20 8690 1010
info@grainmedia.co.uk
www.grainmedia.co.uk
Glimmer Films
14 - 18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
hello@glimmerfilms.com
www.glimmerfilms.com
CURRENT FEATURES 21Show Me The Picture: Sorry We Missed You
The Story of Jim Marshall
Synopsis Synopsis
Legendary US photographer Jim Marshall’s diary of a life Ricky, Abby and their two children live in Newcastle. They are
in music captures both the volatile man behind the lens a strong family who care for each other. Ricky has skipped
and the seismic changes that defined the 1960s. A child of from one labouring job to another while Abby, who loves
immigrants he battled inner demons and fought his way to her work, cares for old people. Despite working longer and
become one of the most trusted mavericks, the man with harder they realise they will never have independence or
five Leica M4s hanging round his neck. A passion for music their own home. It’s now or never; the app revolution offers
led him to capture some of the most iconic figures in music Ricky a golden opportunity. He and Abby make a bet. She
history from the jazz greats to Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and sells her car so Ricky can buy a shiny new van and become
The Rolling Stones. His abrasive but honest approach to his a freelance driver, with his own business at last. The modern
subjects, combined with his incredible skill to build trust, world impinges on these four souls in the privacy of their
expanded his portfolio beyond celebrities, documenting key kitchen; the future beckons.
moments in US history and a time of great turbulence. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition -
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - 24 Beats Per Second - World World premiere
premiere
Details
Details Year: 2019
Year: 2019 Running Time: 100 mins
Running Time: 92 mins Director: Ken Loach
Director: Alfred George Bailey Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Producer: Tatiana Kennedy Editor: Jonathan Morris
Executive Producer: Amelia Davis, Bonita Passarelli, Screenwriter: Paul Laverty
Nicolas D Sampson, Arno Hazebroek, Christos Michaels, Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Richard Mansell Production Designer: Fergus Clegg
Editor: Adam Biskupski Music: George Fenton
Director of Photography: David Mackie Principal Cast: Debbie Honeywood, Kris Hitchen
Music: Ian Arber
Image: © Jim Marshall Photography LLC
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
c/o Film Constellation Film Constellation UK, France, Belgium Wild Bunch
2nd Floor 2nd Floor co-production 65 Rue de Dunkerque
11 - 13 Charlotte Street 11 - 13 Charlotte Street 75009 Paris
Sixteen Films (UK), Why Not
London London France
Productions (FR), Wild Bunch
W1T 1RH W1T 1RH +33 1 43 13 21 15
(FR), Les Films du Fleuve (BE),
+44 (0)20 3950 8625 info@filmconstellation.com sales@wildbunch.eu
BBC Films (UK), BFI (UK)
info@filmconstellation.com www.filmconstellation.com www.wildbunch.eu
www.filmconstellation.com Sixteen Films
2nd Floor
187 Wardour Street
London
W1F 8ZB
+44 (0)20 7734 0168
www.sixteenfilms.co.uk
22 CURRENT FEATURESThe Souvenir Tales from the Lodge
Synopsis Synopsis
A young, quietly ambitious film student embarks on her first An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university
serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man. pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the
She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as she surrenders ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the
to the relationship, which comes dangerously close to lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening,
destroying her dreams. entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts,
zombies and possessions, but as day turns to night the gang
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama - European
become aware of another horror story unfolding around
premiere
them. And this one is real.
Details Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Midnighters - World premiere
Year: 2019
Running Time: 115 mins Details
Director: Joanna Hogg Year: 2019
Producer: Luke Schiller, Joanna Hogg Running Time: 94 mins
Executive Producer: Rose Garnett, Michael Wood, Director: Abigail Blackmore
Lizzie Francke, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producer: Richard Wylie, Ed Barratt
Dave Bishop, Andrew Starke Executive Producer: Julian Bird, Rowan Athale
Editor: Helle le Fevre Editor: Jeffrey Castelluccio
Screenwriter: Joanna Hogg Screenwriter: Abigail Blackmore
Director of Photography: David Raedeker Director of Photography: David Mackie
Production Designer: Stéphane Collonge Production Designer: Mike McLoughlin
Sound: Sound Design: Jovan Ajder Music: Warren Bennett
Principal Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Principal Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Demri-Burns, Laura
Tilda Swinton, Ariane Labed, Richard Ayoade Fraser, Sophie Thompson, Johnny Vegas, Kelly Wenham
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
A JWH Films (UK) production. Protagonist Pictures Hook Pictures XYZ Films
Developed and produced with the 42 - 48 Great Portland Street Fleming Business Centre 3103-B, South La Cienega Blvd
support of BBC (UK), BFI (UK), London Burdon Terrace Los Angeles
Sikelia Productions (US) W1W 7NB Newcastle upon Tyne CA 90016 USA
+44 (0)20 7734 9000 NE2 3AE +1 310 956 1550
JWH Films
info@protagonistpictures.com +44 (0)7734 868 366 info@xyzfilms.com
c/o Protagonist Pictures
www.protagonistpictures.com ed@hookpictures.com www.xyzfilms.com
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
info@protagonistpictures.com
www.protagonistpictures.com
CURRENT FEATURES 23Tehran: City of Love Untouchable
Synopsis Synopsis
An ex bodybuilding champion now personal trainer finds The inside story of the meteoric rise and monstrous fall
secret excitement in his life when he agrees to train a of movie titan Harvey Weinstein, revealing how Weinstein
young man for championships; an overweight beauty clinic acquired and deployed his formidable power over the course
secretary who lacks confidence in her physical appearance of decades. Former staffers, college friends and reporters
uses her sexy voice to create a persona for seducing men acknowledge the visionary qualities and brilliance of the
she feels she could never have; and a dispirited religious man, while reflecting upon his ruthless attempts to preserve
singer tries his luck at becoming a wedding singer to his power as scandal threatened to engulf him. In candid,
increase the chances of finding the love of his life. This is emotional, often harrowing testimony – with many accusers
the bittersweet tale of three middle-aged disenchanted speaking on camera for the first time – the documentary
characters yearning for love and connection in a city that exhumes both the method and the collateral damage of
does not embrace them. Weinstein’s alleged abuse. As the criminal case against
him continues, the film questions whether meaningful
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Love
change in the justice system - and in the film industry - is
Strand - World premiere
really possible. Director Ursula Macfarlane crafts a sinister
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam cinematic landscape exposing the underbelly of the storied
(IFFR) 2019 - Voices - International premiere Hollywood fairy tale... creating a brilliant, haunting parable
for our times and a beacon call for future generations.
Details (Sundance Brochure)
Year: 2018
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 -
Running Time: 102 mins
Documentary Premieres - World premiere
Director: Ali Jaberansari
Producer: Babak Jalali
Details
Co-Producer: Marleen Slot, Mohammad Ahmadi,
Year: 2019
Maryam Najafi
Running Time: 98 mins
Editor: Ashkan Mehri
Director: Ursula MacFarlane
Screenwriter: Ali Jaberansari, Maryam Najafi
Producer: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Poppy Dixon
Director of Photography: Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah
Co-Producer: Vanessa Tovell
Production Designer: Payam Foroutan
Executive Producer: Charles Dorfman, David Gilbery, Simon
Sound: Hossein Abolsedgh
Young, Tom McDonald, Hugo Grumbar, Tim Haslam
Music: Hamed Sabet
Editor: Andy R. Worboys
Principal Cast: Forough Ghajabagli, Mehdi Saki, Amir Hessam
Director of Photography: Patrick Smith, Neil Harvey
Bakhtiari, Behnaz Jafari
Music: Anne Nikitin
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Iran, UK, Netherlands Reel Suspects A Lightbox (UK) production Embankment Films
co-production 42, Rue René Boulanger commissioned by BBC Westbourne Studios - WE 020
Lovadina 242 Acklam Road
Kavir Films (IR), Here & There Lightbox
75010 Paris London
Productions (UK), Viking Film (NL) 10 Amwell Street
France W10 5JJ
Here & There Productions +33 1 58 51 42 95 London
+44 (0)20 7183 4739
hereandthereproductions@gmail.com info@reelsuspects.com EC1R 1UQ
info@embankmentfilms.com
www.hereandthereproductions.co.uk www.reelsuspects.com +44 (0)20 3750 0922
www.embankmentfilms.com
info@lightboxent.com
www.lightboxent.com
24 CURRENT FEATURESWounds XY Chelsea
Synopsis Synopsis
Will is a bartender in New Orleans. He has a great job, After instigating the largest of leak of secrets in US history
great friends, and a girlfriend, Carrie, who loves him. He - when she disclosed 750,000 documents to Wikileaks – ex-
skates across life’s surface, ignoring complications and soldier and trans woman Chelsea Manning was supposed to
concentrating on enjoying the moment. One night at the bar, spend most of the rest of her life behind bars in an all-male
a violent brawl breaks out, which injures one of his regular military prison. But on January 17 2017, President Barack
customers and causes some college kids to leave behind a Obama commuted her sentence, in an unprecedented and
cell phone in their haste. Will begins receiving disturbing texts controversial move that divided the United States and the
and calls from the stranger’s phone. While Will hopes to not world. XY Chelsea follows Chelsea Manning as she leaves
get involved, Carrie gets lost down a rabbit hole investigating prison after seven years inside, and begins a new life, whilst
this strange malevolence. They’ve discovered something at the same time having to deal with the far-reaching
unspeakable, and it’s crawling slowly into the light. consequences of her past.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Midnight - Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Movies Plus -
World premiere World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Special Presentations
Fortnight - European premiere
Details
Details Year: 2019
Year: 2019 Running Time: 92 mins
Running Time: 94 mins Director: Tim Travers Hawkins
Director: Babak Anvari Producer: Julia Nottingham, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa,
Producer: Lucan Toh, Christopher Kopp, Babak Anvari Isabel Davis Executive Producer: Laura Poitras, Charlotte
Executive Producer: Megan Ellison, Jillian Longnecker, Cook, Vinnie Malhotra, Mary Burke, Michael Bloom, Lisa
Andrew Harvey, Brian Pitt Leingang, Sharon Chang, Christos Konstantakopoulos,
Editor: Chris Barwell Blaine Vess, Marisa Clifford, Ryan Harrington
Screenwriter: Crihstian Contreras Editor: Enat Sidi, Andrea Scott
Director of Photography: Kit Fraser Screenwriter: Mark Monroe, Tim Travers Hawkins, Enat Sidi,
Production Designer: Chad Keith Andrea Scott
Principal Cast: Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Sound: Joe Fletcher, Karl Mainzer
Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke Music: Johnny Hostile, Jehnny Beth; Music Supervisor: Phil
Canning
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
US, UK co-production Netflix A Pulse Films (UK) production in Submarine Entertainment
5808 Sunset Blvd association with Ford Foundation 197 Grand Street, Suite 6W
AZA Films (US), Annapurna (US),
Los Angeles (US), Sundance Institute (US) with New York
Two & Two Pictures (UK)
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