UK FILMS
TORONTO 2016
www.weareukfilm.com
www.britishcouncil.org/film
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION / 4
UK FEATURE PRESENTATIONS AT TIFF 2016 / 6
UK DOCUMENTARIES AT TIFF 2016 / 20
UK SHORTS AT TIFF 2016 / 24
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL / 31
INDEX OF FILMS / 38
1ST
Feature 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.
Cover image: A United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION
Always a fan of UK film, Toronto International
Film Festival (TIFF) includes an impressive
number of British Films in its 2016 programme.
This catalogue includes details of the UK
productions and official co-productions showing
in the Festival, including the short films, TV and
other special presentations.
You can view a more complete list of titles
currently in production, as well as full details of
all completed shorts and features in the British
Films Directory, compiled by the British Council,
as well as further directories listing both UK
filmmakers and international film festivals, at
www.britishcouncil.org/film
The British Council is just one of a number of key
UK Film organisations represented in Toronto
under the single umbrella of We Are UK Film.
A grouping of UK film commissions, national
and regional agencies and sales companies,
together we provide clear information about our
outstanding locations, services, films and talent,
and we represent the UK Film industry, enabling
connections with both national and international
partners.
The British Council, whose film team acts as a
link between UK films and filmmakers and new
international audiences, works with a range of
programme selector teams from the world’s
premier international film festivals, including
the team from Toronto, to arrange preview
screenings of the best new British films. Find
out what else we do towards the back of this
catalogue.
For more information, contact
[email protected]
Or go to
www.britishcouncil.org/film
Find out more about the UK industry at
www.weareukfilm.com
4
Brotherhood
Lady Macbeth
UK FEATURE
PRESENTATIONS
AT TIFF 2016
6
FEATURES
American Honey
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Synopsis
Visionary award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold
makes her first US-set film with the story of a
teenager who falls into a life on the road. Star
(Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home,
runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive
across the American Midwest selling magazine
subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this
gang, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon
gets into the group’s lifestyle of hard-partying nights,
law-bending days and young love.
Synopsis
Experienced coroner Tommy Tilden and his
grown-up son Austin run a family-owned morgue
and crematorium in Virginia. When the local
Sheriff brings in an emergency case – an unknown
female corpse nicknamed ‘Jane Doe’, found in the
basement of a home where a multiple homicide
took place – it seems like just another open-andshut case. But as the autopsy proceeds, they are
left reeling as each layer of inspection brings
frightening new revelations. Perfectly preserved on
the outside, Jane Doe’s insides have been scarred,
charred and dismembered – seemingly the victim
of an horrific yet mysterious ritualistic torture.
As they begin to piece together these gruesome
discoveries, an unnatural force takes hold of the
crematorium. While a violent storm rages above
ground, it seems the real horrors lie on the inside…
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 162 mins
Director: Andrea Arnold
Producer: Thomas Benski, Lars Knudsen,
Lucas Ochoa, Jay Van Hoy
Co-Producer: Julia Oh
Editor: Joe Bini
Screenwriter: Andrea Arnold
Directory of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: Kelly McGehee
Sound: Supervising Sound Editor: Nicolas Becker;
Sound Recordist: Rashad Omar
Principal Cast: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough
Costume Design: Alex Bovaird
Production Company
A Parts & Labor (US) and
Pulse Films (UK) production
with support from BFI (UK),
Film4 (UK), Maven Pictures
(US), ManDown (US)
Pulse Films
17 Hanbury Street
London
E1 6QR
+44 (0)20 7426 5700
[email protected]
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42 - 48 Great Portland St.
London
W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
[email protected]
www.protagonistpictures.com
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Midnight Madness - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 99 mins
Director: André Øvredal
Producer: Fred Berger, Eric Garcia, Ben Pugh,
Rory Aitken
Executive Producer: Stuart Ford, Matt Jackson,
Steven Squillante
Editor: Patrick Larsgaard
Screenwriter: Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing
Directory of Photography: Roman Osin
Production Designer: Matt Gant
Music: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
Principal Cast: Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Olwen Kelly,
Michael McElhatton, Ophelia Lovibond, Parker Sawyers,
Yves O’Hara
Production Company
UK, US coproduction
42 (UK), Imposter Pictures
(US) with the support of
IM Global (US)
42
8 Flitcroft Street
London WC2H 8DL
+44 (0)20 7292 0554
[email protected]
www.42mp.com
Sales Agent
IM Global
8201 Beverly Blvd, 5th Floor
Los Angeles
CA 90048
USA
+1 310 777 3590
[email protected]
www.imglobalfilm.com
FEATURES
7
Black Mirror: San Junipero
and Nosedive
Brimstone
Synopsis
Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series Black Mirror
taps into the collective unease within the modern
world. Each stand-alone episode a sharp and
suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary
techno-paranoia. Without questioning it, technology
has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every
home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma
screen, a monitor, a smartphone – a Black Mirror
reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us. TIFF
presents two episodes from the forthcoming third
season of Black Mirror: San Junipero and Nosedive.
Synopsis
A triumphant epic of survival set in the searing wilds
of the Badlands, the menacing inferno of the old
American West. A tale of powerful womanhood and
resistance against the unforgiving cruelty of a hell on
earth. Liz is formed by the beautiful wilderness, full of
heart and grit, accused of a crime she didn’t commit,
hunted by the vengeful Preacher – a diabolical
zealot. But Liz is a genuine survivor; a woman of
fearsome strength who responds with astonishing
bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter
deserve. Fear not. Retribution is coming.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Primetime - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 61 mins (San Junipero),
63 mins (Nosedive)
Director: Owen Harris (San Junipero);
Joe Wright (Nosedive)
Producer: Laurie Borg
Co-Producer: Ian Hogan (San Junipero)
Executive Producer: Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones
Editor: Nicolas Chaudeurge (San Junipero); Valerio
Bonelli (Nosedive)
Screenwriter: Charlie Brooker (San Junipero); Rashida
Jones (Nosedive), Michael Schur (Nosedive)
Directory of Photography: Gustav Danielsson (San
Junipero); Seamus McGarvey (Nosedive)
Production Designer: Joel Collins (San Junipero)
Music: Max Richter (Nosedive)
Principal Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis (San
Junipero); Alice Eve, Bryce Dallas Howard (Nosedive)
Episode Image: Nosedive
Production Company
House of Tomorrow
Endemol Shine UK
Chandni Lakhani
Shepherd’s Building Central
Charecroft Way
Shepherds Bush
London
W14 0EH
+44 (0)870 333 1700
ChandniLakhani@
houseoftmrw.com
www.houseoftmrw.com
8
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
Sales Agent
Netflix
Sarah Bremner
335 N. Maple Drive
Suite 353
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
USA
+1 310 734 2900
[email protected]
www.netflix.com
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 148 mins
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Producer: Els Vandevorst, Uwe Schott
Co-Producer: Peter Hiltunen, Antonino Lombardo, Paul
Trijbits, Manuel Chiche, Violaine Barbaroux, Simon Perry
Executive Producer: Tim Haslam, Jean-Baptiste Babin,
Nicky Hattingh, Nik Powell, Anne Sheehan, Joel Thibout,
Sheryl Crown, Hugo Grumbar
Editor: Job ter Burg
Screenwriter: Martin Koolhoven
Directory of Photography: Rogier Stoffers
Production Designer: Floris Vos
Sound: Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor:
Herman Pieëte
Music: Junkie XL
Principal Cast: Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Kit Harington,
Carice van Houten, Emilia Jones, Paul Anderson
Production Company
Netherlands, France, UK,
Sweden, Belgium, Germany
coproduction
An N279 Entertainment
(NL), Backup Media (FR),
FilmWave (UK), Illusion Film
& Television (SE), Prime
Time (BE), X-Filme Creative
Pool GmbH (DE) production
in association with New
Sparta Films (UK)
FilmWave
Paul Trijbits
4th Fl, 27 Margaret Street
London W1W 8RY
+44 (0)20 7580 7200
[email protected]
www.filmwave.com
Sales Agent
Embankment Films
Westbourne Studios – WE 020
242 Acklam Road
London W10 5JJ
+44 (0)20 7183 4739
[email protected]
www.embankmentfilms.com
Brotherhood
City of Tiny Lights
Synopsis
The third and final instalment in Noel Clarke’s urban
trilogy, that also includes Kidulthood (2006) and
Adulthood (2008). A gritty tale of an ex-con whose
dreams of settling down and going straight run up
against the long memories (and itchy trigger fingers)
of a crew of old enemies.
Synopsis
A crime thriller and a unique portrait of
contemporary London from award-winning director
Pete Travis. The story of a private eye who stumbles
upon a case that will lead him to revisit his past.
Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed) – cricket fan, devoted
son and deadbeat private eye – is just emerging
from another hangover when his next case walks
through the door. Hooker Melody (Cush Jumbo)
wants him to find her friend Natasha who has gone
missing without warning. As he delves deeper into
the case, Tommy’s journey to uncover the truth
leads him into the hidden layers of modern London,
unlocking shocking secrets about past loves,
friendships and family.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 105 mins
Director: Noel Clarke
Producer: Noel Clarke, George Isaac, Jason Maza,
Maggie Monteith, Gina Powell
Executive Producer: Damian Jones, Josephine Rose,
Chris Reed, Zygi Kamasa, Nick Manzi, Nicola Pearcey
Editor: Tommy Boulding
Screenwriter: Noel Clarke
Directory of Photography: Aaron Reid
Production Designer: Monica Black
Sound: Mario Mooney
Principal Cast: Noel Clarke, Tonia Sotiropoulou,
Arnold Oceng, Ashley Thomas, Red Madrell,
Jason Maza, Olivia Chenery, Stormzy
Production Company
Unstoppable Entertainment UK
Lower Ground Floor
111 Charterhouse Street
London
EC1M 6AW
[email protected]
www.unstoppableentertainmentuk.com
Carpalla Films
Maggie Monteith
6th Floor, Blackfriars House
The Parsonage
Manchester
Lancashire
M3 2JA
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 107 mins
Director: Pete Travis
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien, Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto
Executive Producer: Charles Auty, Peter Hampden,
Norman Merry, Fumio Nagase, Christine Langan, Joe
Oppenheimer, Natascha Wharton, Michiyo Yoshizaki,
Marc Samuelson
Editor: David Charap
Screenwriter: Patrick Neate (novel, screenplay)
Directory of Photography: Felix Wiedemann
Production Designer: Víctor Molero
Sound: Kevin Brazier
Music: Ruth Barrett
Principal Cast: Riz Ahmed, Billie Piper, Cush Jumbo,
Roshan Seth, James Floyd
Production Company
An NDF International and
Sixteen Films Production
made with the support of
BFI, BBC Films in association
with Lip Sync Productions
LLP, Fel UK and Ingenious
Media
NDF International
67A Belsize Park
London NW3 4EH
+44 (0)20 7586 5785
[email protected]
www.ndfinternational.com
Sixteen Films
Jack Thomas-O’Brien
2nd Floor, 187 Wardour St
London W1F 8ZB
+44 (0)20 7734 0168
[email protected]
www.sixteenfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42-48 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
[email protected]
www.protagonistpictures.com
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
9
Denial
The Exception
1ST
Synopsis
Synopsis
Based on the true case of Holocaust denier David
Irving detailed in Deborah E. Lipstadt’s acclaimed
book ‘Denial: Holocaust History on Trial’.
Lipstadt mounted a legal battle for historical truth
against David Irving, who accused her of libel when
she declared him a Holocaust Denier. In the English
legal system, the burden of proof is on the accused;
therefore, it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team
to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust
happened.
Holland 1940. The Nazis are rampaging through
Europe. The British have retreated from Dunkirk.
The last German Kaiser, now an old man, has
been living in exile in a big old house in the Dutch
countryside for 25 years, chopping logs and
reading PG Wodehouse. Into this world comes a
young German officer, sent to stop the old man
from defecting to England. Add a beautiful and
mysterious Dutch maid and a British spy and the
stage is set for a gripping spy thriller and love story.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Mick Jackson
Producer: Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff
Co-Producer: Celia Duval
Executive Producer: Jonathan King, Jeff Skoll, Christine
Langan, Joe Oppenheimer, Andrew Karpen, Guy Heeley
Editor: Justine Wright
Screenwriter: David Hare (screenplay), Deborah
Lipstadt (nonfiction book)
Directory of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
Production Designer: Andrew McAlpine
Sound: Ian Wilson
Principal Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy
Spall, Andrew Scott, Caren Pistorius, Jack Lowden,
Alex Jennings, Harriet Walter
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 107 mins
Director: David Leveaux
Producer: Judy Tossell, Lou Pitt
Co-Producer: Daniel Toland
Executive Producer: Philip H. Geier, Jr., Bill Haber,
Bob Boyett, Eugene Beard, Claudia Bluemhuber, Ian
Hutchinson, Florian Dargel, Irene Gall, Jens Meurer, Jim
Seibel, Bill Johnson, Bastien Sirodot, Adrian Politowski,
Gilles Waterkeyn, Christian Angermayer, Klemens
Hallmann
Editor: Nicolas Gaster
Screenwriter: Simon Burke (screenplay), Alan Judd
(novel)
Directory of Photography: Roman Osin
Production Designer: Hubert Pouille
Sound: Henri Morelle
Music: Ilan Eshkeri
Principal Cast: Lily James, Christopher Plummer, Jai
Courtney, Janet McTeer, Ben Daniels, Eddie Marsan
Production Company
US, UK coproduction
Krasnoff/ Foster
Entertainment (US),
Participant Media (US),
Shoebox FIlms (UK), BBC
Films (UK)
Shoebox Films
Collie McCarthy
48 Russell Square
London
WC1B 4JP
+44 (0)20 7287 2953
[email protected]
www.shoeboxfilms.co.uk
10
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
Sales Agent
Cornerstone Films
12 Sunray Avenue
London
SE24 9PY
+44 (0)7580 337581
[email protected]
Production Company
An Egoli Tossell KLK (UK),
Ostar Enterprises, Inc. (US)
production in association
with Alton Road Productions
(US), Silver Reel Partners
AG (CH), uMedia Production
(BE), Film House Germany
AG (DE), Screen Flanders (BE)
Egoli Tossell KLK Ltd
Judy Tossell
10th Floor, The Met Building
22 Percy Street
London
W1T 2BU
[email protected]
www.egolitossell.com
Sales Agent
Lotus Entertainment
1875 Century Park East
Suite 2150
Los Angeles
CA 90067
USA
+1 310 836 2000
[email protected]
www.lotusentertainment.com
Free Fire
The Girl with All the Gifts
Synopsis
Justine (Brie Larson) has brokered a meeting in a
deserted warehouse between two Irishmen (Cillian
Murphy, Michael Smiley) and a gang led by Vernon
(Sharlto Copley) and Ord (Armie Hammer) who are
selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are
fired in the handover, a heart stopping game of
survival ensues.
Synopsis
In a heavily guarded compound, a small group
of children is being studied in a programme to
discover the cure to a virus that has ravaged the
globe. They are the last hope the human race has
for survival. One of these children, 10-year-old
Melanie, attends the school lessons daily. She
excels in the classroom and loves her favourite
teacher, Miss Justineau. Melanie’s talents also draw
the attention of Dr. Caldwell who is searching for
the key to the evolution of the virus.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Midnight Madness - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Ben Wheatley
Producer: Andy Starke
Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese
Editor: Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley
Screenwriter: Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley
Directory of Photography: Laurie Rose
Production Designer: Paki Smith
Sound: Martin Pavey
Music: Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow
Principal Cast: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer,
Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor
Production Company
A Rook Films production
with the support of BFI and
Film4
Rook Films
P.O. Box 6465
Bridport
DT6 9AS
[email protected]
www.rookfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42 - 48 Great Portland St
London
W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
info@protagonistpictures.
com
www.protagonistpictures.
com
When the base is overrun, Melanie escapes with
Miss Justineau, Dr. Caldwell and Sergeant Parks.
Dr. Caldwell is intent on using Melanie to synthesise
a vaccine. Does Melanie hold the key to unlocking
a cure for the plague on course to destroy the
human race?
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Midnight Madness
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Colm McCarthy
Producer: Camille Gatin, Angus Lamont
Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Ben Roberts,
Richard Holmes, Christopher Moll, Will Clarke,
Andy Mayson, Mike Runagall
Editor: Matthew Cannings
Screenwriter: Mike Carey (novel and screenplay)
Directory of Photography: Simon Dennis
Production Designer: Kristian Milsted
Sound: Sound: Dillon Bennett; Sound Mixer: Will Whale
Music: Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Principal Cast: Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close,
Paddy Considine, Sennia Nanua, Dominique Tipper,
Fisayo Akinade, Anthony Welsh, Anamaria Marinca
Production Company
A Poison Chef, Altitude Film
Entertainment production
supported by the BFI Film
Fund
Poison Chef
349C Green Lanes
London
N4 1DZ
Sales Agent
Altitude Film Sales
Mike Runagall
34 Foubert’s Place
London W1F 7PX
+44 (0)20 7478 7612
mikerunagall@
altitudefilmsales.com
[email protected]
www.altitudefilment.com
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
11
I, Daniel Blake
Jackie
Synopsis
Synopsis
Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life
in Newcastle. Now, he needs help from the State for
the first time in his life.
After US President John F. Kennedy is murdered, First
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and
trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and
define her husband’s historic legacy.
He crosses paths with a single mother, Katie, and
her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s
only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless
hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city
she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and
Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on
the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played
out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in
modern day Britain.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Editor: Jonathan Morris
Screenwriter: Paul Laverty
Directory of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Principal Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Production Company
UK, France, Belgium
coproduction
Sixteen Films (UK), Why Not
Productions (FR), Wild Bunch
(FR), Les Films du Fleuve (BE)
with the support of BFI (UK)
and BBC Films (UK), France
2 Cinéma (FR), Canal + (FR),
France Télévisions (FR), Le
Pacte (FR), Cinéart (BE), Ciné
+ (FR), VOO and Be tv (BEL)
Sixteen Films
2nd Floor
187 Wardour Street
London
W1F 8ZB
+44 (0)20 7734 0168
www.sixteenfilms.co.uk
12
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
Sales Agent
Wild Bunch
Olivier Barbier
65 Rue de Dunkerque
75009 Paris
France
+33 1 43 13 21 15
[email protected]
www.wildbunch.biz
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Platform
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 91 mins
Director: Pablo Larraín
Producer: Darren Aronofsky, Juan de Dios Larraín,
Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, Ari Handel
Executive Producer: Pete Shilaimon, Jennifer Monroe,
Jayne Hong, Wei Han, Lin Qi, Josh Stern
Editor: Sebastián Sepúlveda
Screenwriter: Noah Oppenheim
Directory of Photography: Stéphane Fontaine
Production Designer: Jean Rabasse
Sound: David Miranda, Vincent Cosson
Music: Mica Levi
Principal Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard,
Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt
Production Company
UK, US, Chile coproduction
Jackie Productions Limited
(UK), LD Entertainment
(US), Protozoa (US), Fabula
(CL), Wild Bunch (FR) in
association with Bliss Media
(VG)
Jackie Productions Limited
c/o Fabula
[email protected]
www.fabula.cl
Sales Agent
IMR International (Insiders
MadRiver) (World sales
excluding US)
301 N. Canon Drive
Suite 207
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
USA
+1 424 777 0240
samanthad@madriverpics.
com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Creative Artists Agency/
CAA (US sales)
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles
CA 90067
USA
+1 424 288 2000
[email protected]
www.caa.com
The Journey
The Journey is the
Destination
Synopsis
Synopsis
Recreation of the inspiring life story of the late
photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon,
who abandoned a comfortable life in London to
document the struggle, heartbreak and hope of
a war-torn and famine-ridden region of Africa.
A dramatization of the events preceding the historic
2006 St. Andrews Agreement, which brought peace
to Northern Ireland after years of violent strife
between Unionist and Republican factions. Two
implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, firebrand
Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn
Fein politician Martin McGuinness are forced to take
a short journey together in which they will take the
biggest leap of faith and change the course of modern
history. At this moment the two sworn enemies put
their past actions behind them and begin to forge an
unexpected and extraordinary friendship.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 94 mins
Director: Nick Hamm
Producer: Nick Hamm, Mark Huffam, Piers Tempest,
Matt Jackson, Stuart Ford
Co-Producer: Isabel Freer
Executive Producer: Jo Bamford, Janine Modder,
Norman Merry, Miguel Palos Jr.
Editor: Chris Gill
Screenwriter: Colin Bateman
Directory of Photography: Greg Gardiner
Music: David Craig
Principal Cast: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Toby Stephens,
John Hurt, Freddie Highmore, Catherine McCormack
Production Company
A Greenroom Entertainment
(UK), Tempo Productions
Limited (UK) production
with support from Northern
Ireland Screen (UK),
Acclaim/ IM Global (US)
Greenroom Entertainment
4 Margaret Street, 3rd Floor
London W1W 8RF
+44 (0)20 7580 8484
[email protected]
www.greenroomentertainment.com
Tempo Productions Limited
Piers Tempest
Lower Scarcliffe
Off Carleton Lane, Carleton
Skipton, North Yorkshire
BD23 3HS
+44 (0)20 7097 8973
[email protected]
www.tempoproductions.net
Sales Agent
IM Global
8201 Beverly Blvd, 5th Floor
Los Angeles
CA 90048 USA
+1 310 777 3590
[email protected]
www.imglobalfilm.com
IM Global (UK)
18 Soho Square
London W1D 3QL
+44 (0)20 7025 8016
[email protected]
www.imglobalfilm.com
Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Gala
Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 119 mins
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Producer: Martin Katz, Bronwen Hughes, Richard
Arlook, Kweku Mandela, Adam Friedlander, Kathy Eldon
Executive Producer: Regina Kulik Scully, Nicolas
Chartier, Jonathan
Deckter, Gary Slaight, Michael Bedner, Tero Ojanpera,
Nion McEvoy, Maria Bello, Warren Ostergard, Balir Hahn,
Michael Brickman, Jay Alix, Una Jackman
Editor: Natan Moss, Robert Ivison
Screenwriter: Bronwen Hughes, Jan Sardi
Directory of Photography: Giulio Biccari
Production Designer: Bobby Cardoso
Music: Duncan Bridgeman
Principal Cast: Ben Schnetzer, Ella Purnell, Maria Bello,
Sam Hazeldine, Kelly MacDonald, Maria Bello
Sales Agent
Production Company
Canada, US, South Africa, UK Voltage Pictures
116 N Robertson Blvd.
coproduction
Suite 200
A Prospero Pictures (CA),
Creative Visions (US), Out of Los Angeles
CA 90048
Africa Entertainment (ZA),
USA
25-7 Films (UK/ ZA), Alpas
Entertainment (US), Creative +1 323 606 7630
[email protected]
Visions Productions (US)
www.voltagepictures.com
25-7 Films
81 Eccleston Square
London
SW1V 1PP
+44 (0)20 7828 5545
[email protected]
www.25-7-films.com
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
13
Lady Macbeth
The Levelling
1ST
1ST
Synopsis
Trapped in a loveless marriage of convenience, a
headstrong young woman decides to create her
own destiny...
Rural England, 1865. Katherine (Florence Pugh)
is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man
twice her age, whose family is cold and unforgiving.
When she embarks on a passionate affair with a
young worker on her husband’s estate, a force is
unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop
at nothing to get what she wants.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Platform - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: William Oldroyd
Producer: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
Executive Producer: Christopher Moll, Steve Jenkins,
Lizzie Francke, Jim Reeve, Christopher Granier-Deferre
Editor: Nick Emerson
Screenwriter: Alice Birch
Directory of Photography: Ari Wegner
Production Designer: Jacqueline Abrahams
Sound: Ben Baird
Music: Dan Jones
Principal Cast: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi
Ackie, Paul Hilton, Christopher Fairbank
Costume Designer: Holly Waddington
Production Company
Produced by Sixty Six
Pictures with development
support from Creative
England, BFI and BBC
Films through iFeatures
Sixty Six Pictures
Ground Floor
23 Hartswood Road
London
W12 9NE
[email protected]
www.sixtysixpictures.com
14
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42-48 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
info@protagonistpictures.
com
www.protagonistpictures.
com
Synopsis
Somerset, England. Trainee veterinarian Clover
Catto returns to the farm where she grew up after
hearing news that her brother Harry has died –
an apparent suicide. Finding the family home in
ruins following recent floods that devastated the
area, Clover is forced to confront her difficult
father Aubrey – about the farm, the livestock and,
crucially, the details surrounding Harry’s death. As
the funeral approaches Clover’s discoveries send
her on an emotional journey of reckoning - with
the land, her family and herself.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Discovery - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 85 mins
Director: Hope Dickson Leach
Producer: Rachel Robey
Co-Producer: Anna Griffin
Executive Producer: Christopher Granier-Deferre
Editor: Tom Hemmings
Screenwriter: Hope Dickson Leach
Directory of Photography: Nanu Segal
Production Designer: Sarah Finlay
Sound: Sound Designer: Ben Baird
Music: Hutch Demouilpied
Principal Cast: Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton,
Jack Holden, Joe Blakemore
Production Company
A Wellington Films
production, developed with
the support of BFI, BBC Films,
Creative England through
iFeatures
Wellington Films
Rachel Robey
Broadway Media Centre
14-18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
+44 (0)115 840 0043
[email protected]
www.wellingtonfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent
Mongrel Media
Charlotte Mickie
1352 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
M6J 1Y2
Canada
+1 416-516 9775
charlotte@mongrelmedia.
com
www.mongrelmedia.com
The Limehouse Golem
Loving
Synopsis
Synopsis
Loving celebrates the real-life courage and
commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and
Mildred Loving, who married and then spent the
next nine years fighting for the right to live as a
family in their hometown. Their civil rights case,
Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme
Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation
of the right to marry – making their love story an
inspiration to couples everywhere.
London, 1880. In the dangerous Limehouse district,
a series of murders has shaken the community. So
monstrous and ruthless are these crimes the press
claim they are the work of The Golem – a legendary
creature from dark times...
Based on Peter Ackroyd’s best-selling novel
‘Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem’.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 105 mins
Director: Juan Carlos Medina
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen,
Joanna Laurie
Co-Producer: Caroline Levy
Executive Producer: Jane Goldman, Thorsten
Schumacher, Zygi Kamasa, Norman Merry, Peter
Hampden, Nicki Hattingh, Chris Simon, Anne Sheehan
Editor: Justin Krish
Screenwriter: Jane Goldman (screenplay),
Peter Ackroyd (novel)
Directory of Photography: Simon Dennis
Production Designer: Grant Montgomery
Music: Johan Soderqvist
Principal Cast: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth,
Daniel Mays, Sam Reid, Maria Valverde, Eddie Marsan,
Alan Rickman
Production Company
Number 9 Films
8-9 Stephen Mews
London
W1T 1AF
+44 (0)20 7323 4060
[email protected]
www.number9films.co.uk
Sales Agent
HanWay Films
24 Hanway Street
London
W1T 1UH
+44 (0)20 7290 0750
[email protected]
www.hanwayfilms.com
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Gala Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 123 mins
Director: Jeff Nichols
Producer: Nancy Buirski, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth,
Sarah Green, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
Co-Producer: Will Greenfield
Executive Producer: Jared Goldman, Brian KavanaughJones, Jack Turner
Editor: Julie Monroe
Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols
Directory of Photography: Adam Stone
Production Designer: Chad Keith
Sound: Sound Re-recording Mixer, Supervising Sound
Editor: Will Files
Music: David Wingo
Principal Cast: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton,
Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas
Production Company
US, UK coproduction
Big Beach Films (US),
Raindog Films (UK)
Raindog Films
Andrew Gow
4th Floor
18 Broadwick Street
London
W1F 8HS
[email protected]
Sales Agent
Insiders (World sales
excluding US)
Vincent Maraval
[email protected]
[email protected]
Creative Artists Agency/
CAA (US sales)
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles
CA 90067
USA
[email protected]
www.caa.com
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
15
Message from the King
Nocturnal Animals
Synopsis
Synopsis
Jacob King arrives in Los Angeles from Cape Town
looking for his missing younger sister. A stranger
in a strange land, he has $600 in his pocket and a
return ticket home in seven days. Within twentyfour hours Jacob King knows his sister is dead. As
he searches for his sister’s killers King’s journey
propels him deep into the LA underworld and its
intersection with Hollywood high society. His pursuit
of revenge will lay bare a network of depravity that
stretches from the dive-bars of the gang heartlands
to the glitz of the Hills.
An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s
novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled
threat and a symbolic revenge tale.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Vanguard - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 102 mins
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Producer: Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell,
David Lancaster
Co-Producer: Diana Elbaum, Manuel Ciche
Executive Producer: Xavier Marchand, Benedict Carver,
Alexei Boltho, Rhodri Thomas, Chadwick Boseman,
Ash Shah, Steven Kemper, Jean-Baptiste Babin,
Joel Thibout, David Atlan-Jackson
Editor: Beatrice Sišul
Screenwriter: Stephen Cornwell, Oliver Butcher
Directory of Photography: Monika Lenczewska PSC
Production Designer: Melanie Paizis-Jones
Sound: Craig Mann, Laura Weist, Anna MacKenzie,
Shawn Holden
Music: Vincent Cahay, Felix Penny
Principal Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans,
Teresa Palmer, Natalie Martinez, Alfred Molina
Production Company
UK, France, Belgium, US
coproduction
The Ink Factory (UK), eOne
Features (UK), Entre Chien
et Loup (BE), Silver Nitrate
(US) in association with
Rumble Films (US)
The Ink Factory
49 Neal Street
London WC2H 9PZ
+44 (0)20 7096 1698
[email protected]
www.inkfactoryfilms.com
16
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
eOne Features
45 Warren Street
London W1T 6AG
+44 (0)20 3691 8600
[email protected]
www.features.eonefilms.com
Sales Agent
Sierra / Affinity
9378 Wilshire Blvd. #210
Suite 210, Beverly Hills
CA 90212 USA
+1 424 253 1060
[email protected]
www.sierra-affinity.com
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 116 mins
Director: Tom Ford
Producer: Tom Ford, Robert Salerno
Editor: Joan Sobel
Screenwriter: Tom Ford (screenplay),
Austin Wright (novel)
Directory of Photography: Seamus McGarvey
Production Designer: Shane Valentino
Sound: Scott Harber
Music: Abel Korzeniowski
Principal Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal,
Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher,
Karl Glusman, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney,
Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen
Production Company
US, UK coproduction
Fade to Black (US/UK),
Focus Features (US),
Universal Pictures (US)
Sales Agent
Universal Pictures
International
www.nbcuniversal.com
Prevenge
A Quiet Passion
1ST
Synopsis
A pregnant woman takes revenge, embarking on
a killing spree that is both vicious and funny. For
ruthless Ruth, will motherhood lead to redemption,
or destruction? “I wanted to write something which
defied that image of the pregnant woman as this
safe, sweet, kind person… I felt like motherhood is a
crazy, interesting experience and it’s rarely seen on
screen.” (Alice Lowe)
A dark British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe,
who writes, stars and directs, all whilst genuinely
8 months pregnant.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Vanguard
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 88 mins
Director: Alice Lowe
Producer: Vaughan Sivell, Will Kane, Jennifer Handorf
Executive Producer: Franki Goodwin, Vaughan Sivell,
Mike Rattenbury, Will Kane, Mike Shirley, Andrew Thomas
Editor: Matteo Bini
Screenwriter: Alice Lowe
Directory of Photography: Ryan Eddleston
Production Designer: Blair Barnette
Sound: Martin Pavey
Music: Toydrum
Principal Cast: Alice Lowe, Gemma Whelan, Kate Dickie,
Jo Hartley, Kayvan Novak, Tom Davis, Dan Renton
Skinner, Gemma Whelan, Marc Bessant, Mike Wozniak,
Tom Meeten, Leila Hoffman
Production Company
Western Edge PIctures
9 Wimpole Street
London
W1G 9SR
[email protected]
www.westernedgepictures.co.uk
Gennaker
[email protected]
www.gennaker.co.uk
Synopsis
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from
her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later
years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. Dickinson
wrote a poem a day, but only a fraction of her
output was published throughout her lifetime. She
was extremely shy, but with a wry, lively sense of
humour and loved to laugh or to be made to laugh.
Her friendships were intense but it was within the
family that she found her greatest happiness. Her
life is one of quiet dignity. The poetry magnificent.
All the terror and beauty of the world distilled down
to the quintessence of meaning and expression.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Masters
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 125 mins
Director: Terence Davies
Producer: Sol Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter
Co-Producer: Peter de Maegd, Tom Hameeuw
Executive Producer: Andrea Gibson, Jason Van Eman,
Ross Marroso, Ben McConley, Ron Moring, Jason Moring,
Genevieve Lemal, Alain-Gilles Villevoye, Stuart Pollock,
Dominic Ianno; Co-Executive Producer: Mary MacLeod
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Screenwriter: Terence Davies
Directory of Photography: Florian Hoffmeister BSC
Production Designer: Merijn Seps
Principal Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith
Carradine, Emma Bell, Duncan Duff, Jodhi May, Catherine
Bailey, Joanna Bacon, Annette Badland, Eric Loren
Production Company
UK, Belgium coproduction
Hurricane Films (UK),
Potemkino (BE)
Hurricane Films
13 Hope Street
Liverpool
L1 9BQ
+44 (0)151 707 9700
[email protected]
www.hurricanefilms.net
Sales Agent
Double Dutch International
117 Millcliff Circle
Aurora
Onatario
L4G 7P1
Canada
+1 519 942 3212
[email protected]
www.
doubledutchinternational.com
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
17
Their Finest
Trespass Against Us
1ST
Synopsis
Synopsis
A British film crew attempts to boost morale
during World War II by making a propaganda film
after the Blitzkrieg. A young woman screenwriter
experiences the reality of filmmaking under the
threat of invasion whilst negotiating her way in
matters of life, death and the heart. A screwball
and yet moving portrait of the topsy turvy world
of wartime London.
Torn between loyalty to his father and hope for his
children, a man struggles to reassess his criminal
life. Three generations of the Cutler family live as
notorious outlaws among some of the wealthiest
lands in Britain. They spend their time hunting,
raiding large estates and tormenting the police.
In the midst of it all, Chad (Michael Fassbender)
finds himself torn between respect for his father
(Brendan Gleeson) and a desire for a better life for
his children. The law is cracking down on his clan,
and the decision might not be his to make...
Original score written by The Chemical Brothers.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Gala Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 117 mins
Director: Lone Scherfig
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Amanda Posey, Finola
Dwyer, Elizabeth Karlsen
Executive Producer: Ivan Dunleavy, Zygi Kamasa,
Christine Langan, Robert Norris, Ed Wethered,
Peter Watson, Thorsten Schumacher
Editor: Lucia Zucchetti
Screenwriter: Gaby Chiappe (screenplay),
Lissa Evans (novel)
Directory of Photography: Sebastian Blenkov
Production Designer: Alice Normington
Sound: Martin Trevis
Principal Cast: Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin,
Jack Huston, Helen McCrory, Eddie Marsan, Jake Lacy,
Rachel Stirling, Richard E. Grant
Production Company
Wildgaze Films
53 Greek Street
London
W1D 3DR
+44 (0)20 7734 7065
[email protected]
www.wildgazefilms.co.uk
Number 9 Films
8-9 Stephen Mews
London
W1T 1AF
+44 (0)20 7323 4060
[email protected]
www.number9films.co.uk
18
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
Sales Agent
HanWay Films
24 Hanway Street
London
W1T 1UH
+44 (0)20 7290 0750
[email protected]
www.hanwayfilms.com
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 98 mins
Director: Adam Smith
Producer: Andrea Calderwood, Gail Egan,
Alastair Siddons
Executive Producer: Tessa Ross, Rose Garnett, David
Kosse, Zygi Kamasa, Daniel Khalili, Natascha Wharton,
Fredrick W. Green, Joshua Astrachan, Peter Hampden,
Norman Merry, Nigel Williams, Manuel Chiche, Jean
Labadie
Editor: Kristina Hetherington, Jake Roberts
Screenwriter: Alastair Siddons
Directory of Photography: Eduard Grau
Production Designer: Nick Palmer
Sound: Andy Hoare
Music: The Chemical Brothers
Principal Cast: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson,
Lyndsey Marshal, Sean Harris, Rory Kinnear, Killian Scott
Production Company
A Potboiler Productions,
Film4, Albert Granville
production in association
with DMC Film, BFI, Animal
Kingdom, Lipsync
Potboiler Productions
9 Greek Street
London
W1D 4DQ
+44 (0)20 7734 7372
[email protected]
www.potboiler.co.uk
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42 - 48 Great Portand Street
London
W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
info@protagonistpictures.
com
www.protagonistpictures.
com
Una
A United Kingdom
1ST
Synopsis
Based on David Harrower’s play ‘Blackbird’ charting
a young woman’s journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen
years earlier, Una ran away with an older man, Ray,
a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned.
When she comes across a photo of him in a trade
magazine, Una tracks him down and turns up at his
workplace. Her abrupt arrival threatens to destroy
Ray’s new life and derail her stability. Unspoken
secrets and buried memories surface as Una and
Ray sift through the wreckage of the past. Their
confrontation raises unanswered questions and
unresolved longings. It will shake them both to the
core. This story gazes into the heart of a devastating
form of love and asks if redemption is possible.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 94 mins
Director: Benedict Andrews
Producer: Jean Doumanian, Patrick Daly, Maya Amsellem
Executive Producer: Ron Burkle, Terry Allen Kramer,
George S. Kaufman, Kevin Loader, David Kosse, Sam
Lavender, Robbie Allen, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth,
Andrew Pollack, Eve Schoukroun, Sharon Harel-Cohen
Editor: Nick Fenton
Screenwriter: David Harrower (screenplay and
original play)
Directory of Photography: Thimios Bakatakis
Production Designer: Fiona Crombie
Sound: Danny Hambrook
Music: Jed Kurzel
Principal Cast: Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn,
Riz Ahmed
Production Company
WestEnd Films (UK), Jean
Doumanian Productions
(US), Bron Creative (CA)
with the support of Creative
Scotland (UK), Film4 (UK)
WestEnd Films
Shepherds Building Central
Charecroft Way
London W14 0EE
+44 (0)20 7494 8300
[email protected]
www.westendfilms.com
Synopsis
The true story of Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo),
King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth
Williams (Rosamund Pike), the London office worker
he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition
from their families and the British and South African
governments.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Gala Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 105 mins
Director: Amma Asante
Producer: Brunson Green, Peter Heslop, Charlie Mason,
Rick McCallum, Justin Moore-Levy, David Oyelowo
Executive Producer: Guy Hibbert, Cameron McCracken,
Eleanor Clark Windo, Cameron McCracken, Christine
Langan, Natascha Wharton
Editor: Jon Gregory, Jon Amos
Screenwriter: Guy Hibbert
Directory of Photography: Sam McCurdy
Production Designer: Simon Bowles
Sound: Igor Pokorny
Music: Patrick Doyle
Principal Cast: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike,
Jack Davenport, Laura Carmichael, Tom Felton,
Terry Pheto, Arnold Oceng
Film4
124 Horseferry Road
London SW1P 2TX
+44 (0)20 7306 5190
www.film4.com
Production Company
Pathé (UK), Film United
(CZ), Perfect Weekend (US),
Yoruba Saxon Productions
(US), Harbinger Pictures (US)
Sales Agent
WestEnd Films
Shepherds Building Central
Charecroft Way
London W14 0EE
+44 (0)20 7494 8300
[email protected]
www.westendfilms.com
Pathé
4th Floor
6 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7TY
+44 (0)20 7323 5151
[email protected]
www.pathe.co.uk
Sales Agent
Pathé International
4th Floor
6 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7TY
+44 (0)20 7323 5151
sales@patheinternational.
com
www.patheinternational.com
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
19
The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!:
A Trip Across Latin America
UK DOCUMENTARIES
AT TIFF 2016
20
DOCUMENTARIES
Forever Pure (Tehora la’ad)
India In A Day
1ST
Synopsis
January, 2013. A secretive transfer deal transported
two Muslim players into the heart of Israel and
the Jewish oriented Beitar Jerusalem F.C., leading
to the most racist campaign in Israeli sport. One
season and one football team in crisis, as power,
money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of
control.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - TIFF Docs
Synopsis
India’s largest crowdsourced documentary.
The story of a single day, 10th October 2015.
The film is a unique document, capturing a
remarkable range of characters and personal
reflections into what it means to be alive in India
today, submitted by individuals from across the
country.
Official Selection Toronto International Film
Festival 2016 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 87 mins
Director: Maya Zinshtein
Producer: Geoff Arbourne, Maya Zinshtein
Co-Producer: Alan Maher, Torstein Grude
Executive Producer: John Battsek, Nicole Stott
Editor: Justine Wright, Noam Amit
Directory of Photography: Sergei (Israel) Freedman,
Yaniv Linton, Ross
McDonnell
Sound: Slava Frenklakh
Music: Stephen Rennicks
Story Consultant: Joe Bini
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 86 mins
Director: Richie Mehta
Producer: Jack Arbuthnott, Cassandra Sigsgaard
Co-Producer: Donna Chang
Executive Producer: Ridley Scott, Anurag Kashyap,
Carlo Dusi
Editor: Beverley Mills
Sound: Joakim Sundström
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Production Company
Israel, UK, Ireland, Norway
coproduction
Production Company
India, UK coproduction
Duckin’ & Divin’ Films (UK),
Maya Films (IL), Passion
Pictures (UK), Roads
Entertainment (IE), Piraya
Film AS (NO)
Duckin’ & Divin’ Films
Geoff Arbourne
13 The Willows
Beer
Devon
EX12 3AN
+44 (0)74324 90540
[email protected]
Passion Pictures
County House
33-34 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1JN
+44 (0)20 7323 9933
[email protected]
www.passion-pictures.com
Sales Agent
Dogwoof
19-23 Ironmonger Row
London
EC1V 3QN
+44 (0)20 7253 6244
[email protected]
www.dogwoof.com
Scott Free Films
Donna Chang
42-44 Beak Street
London
W1F 9RH
[email protected]
Sales Agent
Scott Free Films
Donna Chang
42-44 Beak Street
London
W1F 9RH
+44 (0)20 7437 3163
[email protected]
DOCUMENTARIES
21
Into the Inferno
The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!:
A Trip Across Latin America
Synopsis
When volcanoes exploded in the past, they helped
shape us as a species. From our earliest ancestors
to travellers battling with the effects of ash clouds
on airline flights, our evolutionary destiny has been
played out in the shadow of volcanoes. One day in
the future there will be another super-eruption like
the one that triggered the last ice age.
Synopsis
An exhilarating rock ‘n’ roll road movie follows The
Rolling Stones on their 2016 tour of Latin America,
climaxing with their historic concert in Havana, Cuba.
In this global odyssey Werner Herzog explores why,
where and how our lives are inextricably linked with
the most destructive and creative force on Earth.
Teaming up with the world’s leading volcanologist,
Clive Oppenheimer, to bring the story of the
relationship between volcanoes, our planet and
human society.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 104 mins
Director: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer
Producer: Andre Singer, Lucki Stipetic
Executive Producer: Richard Melman, Lisa Nishimura,
Jason Spingarn-Koff, Adam Del Deo
Editor: Joe Bini
Directory of Photography: Peter Zeitlinger
Sound: Paul Paragon
Production Company
UK, Austria coproduction
Werner Herzog Film GMBH
(DE), Spring Films (UK),
Netflix, Inc. (US)
Spring Films
47 Conduit Street
London
W1S 2YP
+44 (0)20 3327 4930
[email protected]
www.springfilms.tv
22
DOCUMENTARIES
Sales Agent
Netflix
Sarah Bremner
335 N. Maple Drive
Suite 353
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
USA
+1 310 734 2900
[email protected]
www.netflix.com
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Gala Presentations - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 105 mins
Director: Paul Dugdale
Producer: Sam Bridger
Executive Producer: Julie Jakobek, Joyce Smith,
Terry Shand, Geoff Kempin, Jane Rose
Editor: Christopher Bird
Screenwriter: Sam Bridger, Paul Dugdale
Directory of Photography: Jonas Mortensen
Sound: Lee Warpole, Bob Clearmountain
Music: The Rolling Stones
Principal Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts
Sales Agent
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Peter Worsley
Eagle Rock Film Productions Eagle House
22 Armoury Way
c/o Eagle Rock
London
Entertainment
SW18 1EZ
Peter Worsley
+44 (0)20 8870 5670
Eagle House
+44 (0)7779 289890
22 Armoury Way
[email protected]
London
Production Company
JA Digital, Eagle Rock Film
Productions
SW18 1EZ
+44 (0)20 8870 5670
+44 (0)7779 289890
[email protected]
The Sixth Beatle
Synopsis
Everyone thinks Brian Epstein walked into The
Cavern Club on Mathew Street one afternoon
and discovered The Beatles – a raw, unpolished,
amateur band in a dingy basement club in Liverpool
England. While Epstein did make The Beatles famous
worldwide, he didn’t ‘discover’ them. Beatlemania
was born long before Epstein came on the scene.
The Beatles were already the number one standout
group in Liverpool’s massive Merseybeat scene
drawing thousands of screaming fans to their
shows. The Merseybeat movement started with the
help of the ingenuity of a number of local promoters,
lead by the infamous Sixth Beatle, Sam Leach. This is
his story, for without him, there may have never been
a Beatles.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - TIFF Docs - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Tony Guma, John Rose
Producer:
Executive Producer: Tony Guma, John Rose
Screenwriter: Tony Guma, John Rose
Directory of Photography: Anthony Hardwick
Production Company
US, UK, Germany
coproduction
Guma Rose Telefilm
c/o Submarine
Entertainment
[email protected]
Sales Agent
Submarine Entertainment
197 Grand Street, Suite 6W
10013 NY
New York
USA
+1 212 625 1410
[email protected]
www.submarine.com
DOCUMENTARIES
23
Your Mother and I
UK SHORTS
AT TIFF 2016
24
SHORTS
As Without So Within
A Brief History of
Princess X
Synopsis
Conceptually informed by artist Manuela De
Laborde’s active filmgoing, this piece takes as
its point of departure prop sculptures which are
transformed both through hybrid techniques of
framing, lighting, and superimposition and by
being projected in an enclosed, silent architectural
space.
Synopsis
A supercharged history of sculptor Constantin
Brancusi’s infamous ‘Princess X’, a futuristic bronze
phallus that is actually a bust portrait of Napoleon’s
equally infamous great grand niece, Marie
Bonaparte.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Wavelengths - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 25 mins
Director: Manuela De Laborde
Producer: Manuela De Laborde
Editor: Manuela De Laborde
Directory of Photography: Manuela De Laborde
Sound: Sound Design: Camila De Laborde,
Manuela De Laborde
Graphic Consultant and Designer: Freddy Taylor
Production Company
Mexico, US, UK coproduction
Manuela de Laborde
[email protected]
www.manueladelaborde.com
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Short Cuts
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 7 mins
Director: Gabriel Abrantes
Producer: Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes
Co-Producer: LUX/ ICO
Editor: Margarida Lucas
Screenwriter: Gabriel Abrantes
Directory of Photography: Jorge Quintela
Principal Cast: Joana Barrios, Francisco Cipriano
Production Company
France, Portugal, UK
coproduction
Herma Films (PT), Les Films
du Bélier (FR), The Artists
Cinema (UK)
The Artists Cinema
c/o LUX/ ICO
Matt Carter
Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[email protected]
www.lux.org.uk
Sales Agent
AGENCIA - Portuguese
Short Film Agency (World
sales excluding France,
Switzerland, Belgium, UK)
Auditório Municipal Pr
Republica
4480-715 Vila do Conde
Portugal
+351 252 646683
[email protected]
www.curtas.pt
Les Films du Belier (France,
Switzerland, Belgium sales)
Aurelien Deseez, Rémi Large
[email protected]
[email protected]
The Artists Cinema (UK sales
and Fine Arts Institutions)
c/o LUX/ ICO
Matt Carter
[email protected]
SHORTS
25
In the Hills
Night Dancing
Synopsis
An immigrant man living in the idyllic Cotswolds
takes a rather radical route towards integrating
into British society.
Synopsis
Every night, Bob is transfixed by the vision of a
woman dancing outside his window; every morning,
he struggles to make sense of it. The line between a
leap (of faith) and a pas de deux grows increasingly
fine as the dance beckons.
Official Selection Toronto International Film
Festival 2016 - Short Cuts
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 21 mins
Director: Hamid Ahmadi
Producer: Harry Baker
Editor: Hamid Ahmadi, Harry Baker, Narges Kalhor
Screenwriter: Hamid Ahmadi
Directory of Photography: Nicholas Nazari
Production Designer: Maria Balduzzi
Sound: Zoya Machkina
Principal Cast: Shahram Navard, Charlie Coletta,
Tim Jennings, Claire Rammelkamp, Timothy James
Production Company
London Film School
24 Shelton Street
London
WC2H 9UB
+44 (0)20 7836 9642
[email protected]
www.lfs.org.uk
26
SHORTS
Sales Agent
London Film School
24 Shelton Street
London
WC2H 9UB
+44 (0)20 7836 9642
[email protected]
www.lfs.org.uk
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Short Cuts - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 6 mins
Director: Barney Cokeliss
Producer: Barney Cokeliss
Editor: Marco Perez
Screenwriter: Barney Cokeliss
Directory of Photography: Philippe Kress
Production Designer: Andreea Ghergel
Sound: Ben Leeves
Music: Anné Kulonen
Principal Cast: Jason Thorpe, Louise Tanoto,
Jacob Ingram-Dodd, Alister Cameron
Production Company
Paddington Pictures Ltd
Barney Cokeliss
[email protected]
Standby
The Watershow Extravaganza
Synopsis
Set entirely in a police car we follow two new
partners officers Gary and Jenny. Their evolving
relationship is an emotional rollercoaster ride
that stands in often-comedic contrast to the
procession of thugs and criminals filling the back
seat.
Synopsis
This piece records a water-music-light attraction
which has been in operation at Watermouth Castle
theme park in North Devon since the early 1980s.
Installed in a child-sized theatre, the performance
synchronises a 1920s Mighty Mortier organ with
a water tray exhibited at the Festival of Britain in
1951.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Short Cuts - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 6 mins
Director: Charlotte Regan
Producer: Jack Hannon
Editor: Charlotte Regan
Screenwriter: Charlotte Regan
Directory of Photography: Bradley Stearn
Production Designer: Elena Muntoni
Sound: Michael Ling
Principal Cast: Andrew Paul, Alexa Morden
Production Company
Charlotte Regan
[email protected]
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Wavelengths
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 11 mins
Director: Sophie Michael
Producer: Sophie Michael
Editor: Sophie Michael
Directory of Photography: Sophie Michael
Sound: Andrew Munks, Mick Richie, Sophie Michael
Production Company
Sophie Michael
+44 (0)7947 127024
[email protected]
www.sophiemichael.co.uk
Sales Agent
Seventeen Gallery
+44 (0)20 7249 7789
[email protected]
www.seventeengallery.com
SHORTS
27
The White Helmets
Your Mother and I
Synopsis
A small group of volunteer heroes, the White
Helmets defy death, dodging bombs and sniper
fire, to rescue Syrians from the bombs that fall
incessantly on their towns and cities. However,
after three years and with no end in sight, even
the heroes may need to be saved.
Synopsis
Johnna’s dad talks too much, and Johnna herself
lives inside her head. Your Mother and I looks at
the small moments that belie the larger tensions
between families and generations, whilst Johnna’s
dad recounts all the ways he and his wife changed
the world. Or so he says.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Short Cuts
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival
2016 - Short Cuts - World premiere
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 40 mins
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Producer: Joanna Natasegara
Executive Producer: Jason Spingarn-Koff,
Lisa Nishimura, Adam Del Deo
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo
Directory of Photography: Franklin Dow, Fadi Al Halabi,
Hassan Kattan,
Khaled Khateeb
Sound: Andrew Hewitson
Music: Patrick Jonsson
Details
Year: 2016
Running Time: 14 mins
Director: Anna Maguire
Producer: Anna Maguire, Kat Hidalgo, Peter Kuplowsky
Editor: Maureen Grant
Screenwriter: Anna Maguire (adaptation), Julia Hart
(adaptation), Dave Eggers (original story)
Directory of Photography: Ian Macmillan
Production Designer: Tisha Myles
Sound: Victor Jaramillo
Music: Ben Fox
Principal Cast: Don McKellar, Julia Sarah Stone
Production Company
A Grain Media (UK), Violet
Films (UK), Netflix Inc. (US)
production
Production Company
Canada, UK coproduction
Grain Media
Unit 1, 1st Floor
Gladiator Works
Gladiator Street
London
SE23 1NA
+44 (0)20 8690 1010
[email protected]
www.grainmedia.co.uk
28
SHORTS
Sales Agent
Netflix
Sarah Bremner
335 N. Maple Drive
Suite 353
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
USA
+1 310 734 2900
[email protected]
www.netflix.com
Paper Bag Productions (UK),
Low Sky Productions (CA),
Meraki Moving Pictures (CA)
Paper Bag Productions
[email protected]
www.annamaguire.co.uk
Standby
Prevenge
30
FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
ABOUT
BRITISH COUNCIL
The British Council’s Film programme
links UK films and filmmakers with
new international audiences. Together
with our global network overseas
we work to profile the innovation,
diversity, creativity and excellence
of British films around the world, and
look for opportunities for creative
exchange between UK filmmakers
and international counterparts.
British Council’s Film department is
a part of Arts Group, which works
across 109 countries to build trust
and opportunity for the UK through
the exchange of knowledge,
experience and ideas worldwide.
www.britishcouncil.org/film
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL
31
BRITISH COUNCIL
& SHORTS
Travel Grant Fund
Clermont Ferrand Short Film Market
In partnership with the BFI, we operate a travel
grant fund for short filmmakers whose work has
been selected to screen at key international
events. In summer 2016 we expanded the remit
of the fund to include Virtual Reality projects.
Working alongside We Are UK Film partners,
the British Council is the lead organisation
for the UK’s market presence at the Clermont
Ferrand Short Film Festival, the biggest of its
kind in the world. Within the festival we are also
a partner on Euro Connection, a pitching and
co-production forum for short film producers
working in Europe.
32
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL
UK Shorts Portal
Short Sighted
Our digital platform brings together the best new
short film work from partners across the UK and
makes it available on a secure basis for buyers,
distributors and festival programmers around
the world. Discover more at
UKShortsportal.picturepipe.net
The British Council partners with BAFTA and
Shooting People on a regular annual conference
designed to demystify exhibition, distribution
and promotion for short filmmakers. The next
conferences in London and Belfast are coming
up in November 2016.
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL
33
The Levelling
City of Tiny Lights
BRITISH COUNCIL
& FESTIVALS
Festival Selector Preview
Screenings
The British Council provides a preview service
for selectors from the world’s major film festivals
who join us in London to view new British feature
films to consider for their upcoming festivals.
We currently welcome teams from Sundance,
Rotterdam, Berlin, Sofia, Tribeca, Cannes,
Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Venice, Toronto, San
Sebastian and Zurich.
34
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL
UK Film at international festivals
As a partner in UK Film, an umbrella organisation
which brings together the UK’s film commissions,
national and regional agencies, producers
and sales companies, we take an active role in
hosting UK stands at key film markets (including
Toronto, Cannes, Berlin, and Clermont-Ferrand).
Free Fire
Photo: Markus Nass
2015 EFP Shooting Star, Maisie Williams
European Film Promotion
British Film Directory
The British Council represents the UK as part
of the European Film Promotion (EFP) network.
Our EFP projects include Shooting Stars at the
Berlinale; Producers on the Move in Cannes; a
programme of filmmakers to Busan; Producers
Lab in Toronto; and enables UK sales companies
to access EFP Film Sales Support.
Our British Film Directory is an incredible tool
for increasing exposure of new and existing film
work to programmers and audiences around the
world. Both shorts and features are included in
the directory, and we also include films currently
in production.
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL
35
BRITISH COUNCIL
& GLOBAL PROJECTS
British Council’s Film team works with
a worldwide network and a range
of international partners to develop
imaginative film projects.
Recent Projects include;
UK-India 2017
During a year of cultural exchange, we will
present dozens of special arts and cultural
projects connecting the UK and India. Film
activities will include event screenings in India,
British film showcases, and a major archive
project.
FiveFilms4Freedom
British Council and BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ
film festival, partner annually on the world’s first
global, digital LGBT film festival. Having reached
people in 135 countries in 2016, we’re heading
into a third successful year in March 2017.
36
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL
Camara Chica
In partnership with film education organisation
Into Film, we’ve hosted filmmaking workshops in
Cuba and Venezuela, training trainers in the skills
needed to get young people to use film to tell
their own stories.
Stories
A partnership with the Scottish Documentary
Institute has resulted in an extensive
programme of creative documentary workshops
with filmmakers in challenging areas. Recent
workshops have been held in Tripoli and
Benghazi, Libya; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Rabat,
Morocco; Ramallah, Palestine; and Karachi,
Pakistan, and the resulting short docs
uncovering extensive ‘Stories’ have been
screened at prestigious festivals from Sheffield
to Locarno.
Script Junction
As part of our UK-Nigeria season in 2015,
we worked with partners NFTS, Edinburgh
International Film Festival and AFRIFF to present
a lab that moved from Scotland to Nigeria,
mentoring 12 aspiring feature film screenwriters
from the UK and Nigeria.
Photo: Jonathan Keenan
FAMLAB: Film, Archive & Music Lab
A lab for 16 participants from East Asia and
the UK explored the creative potential of
collaboration between the worlds of cinema, film
archive and music. The partnership between
British Council’s Film and Music teams alongside
BFI, HOME and PRS for Music Foundation,
included filmmakers, composers and games
designers.
Shakespeare Lives On Film
The largest global touring film programme
ever presented is currently underway in honour
of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary. Partnering
with the BFI, we’re taking a diverse group of
more than 20 classic British Shakespearean
adaptations, as well as new short film
commissions, and filmed staged productions
including Maxine Peake’s Hamlet, to over 100
countries during 2016.
BAFTA Brits
To Watch
During a 2 year
partnership with
BAFTA, we have
presented 10 UK
filmmakers to
exclusive audiences
of opinion formers
during bespoke
visits to the US with
screenings and meetings taking place in both
NY and LA. Brits to Watch alumni includes
Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Carol Morley and
Stephen Finnegan and will culminate in a special
presentation of Lady Macbeth by its director
William Oldroyd later this month.
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL
37
INDEX OF FILMS
American Honey
As Without So Within
Autopsy of Jane Doe, The
Black Mirror: San Junipero and Nosedive
Brief History of Princess X, A
Brimstone
Brotherhood
City of Tiny Lights
Denial
Exception, The
Forever Pure (Tehora la’ad)
Free Fire
Girl with All the Gifts, The
I, Daniel Blake
In the Hills
India In A Day
Into the Inferno
Jackie
Journey, The
Journey is the Destination, The
Lady Macbeth
Levelling, The
Limehouse Golem, The
Loving
Message from the King
Night Dancing
Nocturnal Animals
Prevenge
Quiet Passion, A
Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across
Latin America, The
Sixth Beatle, The
Standby
Their Finest
Trespass Against Us
Una
United Kingdom, A
Watershow Extravaganza, The
White Helmets, The
Your Mother and I
38
7
25
7
8
25
8
9
9
10
10
21
11
11
12
26
21
22
12
13
13
14
14
15
15
16
26
16
17
17
22
23
27
18
18
19
19
27
28
28
www.weareukfilm.com
www.britishcouncil.org/film