Toronto 2015 UK films catalogue

UK FILM
TORONTO 2015
www.weareukfilm.com
www.britishcouncil.org/film
CONTENTS
3
Introduction
4 UK Features
at TIFF 2015
20 UK Documentaries
at TIFF 2015
25 UK Shorts and
Installations
at TIFF 2015
29 Index of Films
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.
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INTRODUCTION
Always a fan of UK film, Toronto International
Film Festival (TIFF) includes an unprecedented
number of British Films in its programme for
2015. Over 40 titles are screening across
the Festival, including those which form the
significant City To City focus on London.
This catalogue includes details of the UK
productions and official co-productions
showing in the Festival, including the short films
selected.
The key UK Film organisations are 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.
In partnership with WE ARE UK FILM, this
Catalogue is a resource complied by British
Council Film, which acts as a link between UK
films and filmmakers and new international
audiences. British Council Film works with a
range of programme selector teams from the
world’s premiere international film festivals,
including the team from TIFF, to arrange
preview screenings in London of the best new
British films. Each catalogue is compiled as a
printable PDF and is intended as a reference
tool to assist festival programmers, film buyers
and sales agents, as well as other filmmakers,
students, statisticians and film historians.
We also collate an online database of UK films
as they go into pre-production, as well as an
exhaustive British Films Directory listing all UK
shorts and features produced since 1998.
You can view the entire British Films Directory,
as well as further Directories listing both
Filmmakers and Festivals, at
www.britishcouncil.org/film.
Find out more about the UK industry at
www.WEAREUKFILM.com
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UK FEATURES
AT TIFF 2015
4
45 Years
Born To Be Blue
Synopsis
There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s 45th
wedding anniversary and the planning for the
party is going well. But then a letter arrives for
her husband. The body of his first love has been
discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers
of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon
them, five days later, there may not be a marriage
left to celebrate.
Synopsis
(with talent to burn and movie-star looks that have
him dubbed the “James Dean of Jazz“) stars in
a film about himself, romance blossoms with the
African American female lead, the enigmatic Jane.
Production is shelved when a vicious beating
leaves Chet in a condition where he may never
play music again. Jane challenges Chet to avoid
self-destruction, overcome his drug addiction, and
mount a musical comeback against all the odds.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special
Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Andrew Haigh
Producer: Tristan Goligher
Executive Producer: Christopher Collins, Lizzie Francke,
Sam Lavender, Tessa Ross, Richard Holmes, Vincent
Gadelle, Louisa Dent, Philip Knatchbull
Editor: Jonathan Alberts
Screenwriter: Andrew Haigh (screenplay), David
Constantine (short story)
Directory of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Sarah Finlay
Sound: Joakim Sundström
Principal Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay,
Geraldine James
Production Company
The Bureau Film Company
2nd Floor
42 Glasshouse Street
London
W1B 5DW
+44 (0)20 7439 8257
[email protected]
www.thebureau.co.uk
Sales Agent
The Match Factory (DE)
Balthasarstr. 79-81
50670 Cologne
Germany
+49 221 539 7090
[email protected]
www.the-match-factory.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special
Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 97 mins
Director: Robert Budreau
Producer: Jennifer Jonas, Leonard Farlinger, Jake Seal,
Robert Budreau
Executive Producer: William G. Santor, Adam Moryto,
Mark Slone, Gurpreet Chandhoke, Stefan Jacobs,
Patrick Roy, Christina Kubacki, Terry Bird, John Hills,
Andrew Chang-Sang
Editor: David Freeman
Directory of Photography: Steve Cosens
Production Designer: Aidan Leroux
Sound: Martin Jensen, Robert Fletcher
Music: David Braid, Todor Kabokov, Steve London
Principal Cast: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum
Keith Rennie
Production Company
Canada, UK coproduction
Lumanity Productions (CA),
New Real Films (CA), Black
Hangar Studios (UK)
Black Hangar Studios
Lasham Airfield
Alton, Hampshire
GU34 5SG
+44 (0)20 7558 8897
[email protected]
www.blackhangarstudios.com
Sales Agent
K5 International
(international sales
except US)
K5 International
56 Tavistock Place, Suite 30
London
WC1H 9RG
+44 (0)20 3290 5799
[email protected]
www.k5international.com
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
FEATURES
5
Brooklyn
Cemetery of Splendour
(Rak Ti Khon Kaen)
Synopsis
Synopsis
When Eilis is given the opportunity to emigrate
to New York she jumps at the chance for a better
life, even if it means leaving her family and home.
Desperately homesick at first, Eilis soon finds
romance in Brooklyn, but when a family emergency
forces her back to Ireland, she finds herself torn
between two countries and the lives that exist
within.
In Khon Kaen a lonesome middle-aged housewife
tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls
into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams,
phantoms, and romance.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special
Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 109 mins
Director: John Crowley
Producer: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Co-Producer: Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin
Executive Producer: Alan Moloney, Christine Langan,
Beth Pattinson, Thorsten Schumacher, Zygi Kamasa,
Hussain Amarshi
Editor: Jake Roberts
Screenwriter: Nick Hornby (screenplay), Colm Tóibin
(novel)
Directory of Photography: Yves Bélanger
Production Designer: François Séguin
Sound: Glenn Freemantle
Music: Michael Brook
Principal Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson,
Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters
Production Company
UK, Ireland, Canada
coproduction
Sales Agent
HanWay Films
24 Hanway Street
Wildgaze Films (UK), Parallel London
W1T 1UH
Films (IE), Item 7 (CA)
+44 (0)20 7290 0750
Wildgaze Films
[email protected]
53 Greek Street
www.hanwayfilms.com
London
W1D 3DR
+44 (0)20 7734 7065
[email protected]
www.wildgazefilms.co.uk/
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FEATURES
“I write this film as a rumination on Thailand, a
feverish nation. It will be the first film that takes
place entirely in my hometown, Khon Kaen. It’s also
a very personal portrait of the places that have
latched onto me like parasites - the elementary
school, the hospital, the library, the lake. Like the
sleepers in this film, I shun the malady of reality,
and together we take refuge in dreams of forever.”
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Masters
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 122 mins
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producer: Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, Charles de Meaux, Michael Weber,
Hans Geissendoerfer
Editor: Lee Chatametikool
Screenwriter: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Directory of Photography: Diego García
Production Designer: Akekarat Homlaor
Sound: Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr
Principal Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi,
Jarinpattra Rueangram
Production Company
Thailand, UK, France,
Germany, Malaysia
production
Kick the Machine (TH),
Illuminations Films
(Past Lives) (UK), Anna
Sanders Films (FR), Match
Factory Productions (DE),
Geissendoerfer Film-und
Fernsehnproduktion (DE),
Astro Shaw (MY)
Illuminations Films
(Past Lives)
187 Beach Street
Deal
Kent
CT14 6LY
+44 (0)1304 371625
[email protected]
www.illuminationsfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent
The Match Factory (DE)
Balthasarstr. 79-81
50670 Cologne
Germany
+49 221 539 7090
[email protected]
www.the-match-factory.com
Couple in a Hole
The Danish Girl
Synopsis
A middle aged, middle class British couple are
living like feral creatures in a camouflaged hole in
the middle of a vast forest somewhere in France.
Less than a year ago, they lost everything in a
freak wildfire. Traumatised to the bone, the couple
vanished and ended up where they are. She does
not want to return to civilisation because only here
she feels she can make amends. Her husband, on
the other hand, finds the constant reminder of their
misfortune increasingly unbearable. The couple’s
relationship reaches breaking point and repressed
emotions come bursting out to the surface.
Synopsis
The remarkable love story inspired by the lives
of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (portrayed
by Academy Award® winner Eddie Redmayne and
Alicia Vikander), and directed by Academy Award®
winner Tom Hooper. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and
work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking
journey as a transgender pioneer.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 105 mins
Director: Tom Geens
Producer: Zorana Piggott
Co-Producer: Aurélie Bordier, Dries Phlypo
Executive Producer: Lizzie Francke, Cavan Ash, Colette
Delaney-Smith
Editor: Alain Dessauvage
Screenwriter: Tom Geens
Directory of Photography: Sam Care
Production Designer: Richard Campling
Sound: Christophe Penchenat
Music: BEAK>
Principal Cast: Paul Higgins, Kate Dickie, Jérôme
Kircher, Corinne Masiero
Production Company
UK, Belgium, France
coproduction
011 Productions (UK),
The Chicken Factory (UK),
A Private View (BE), Les
Enrages (FR)
011 Productions
Zorana Piggott
[email protected]
www.zerodoubleone.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special
Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Tom Hooper
Producer: Gail Mutrux, Anne Harrison, Tim Bevan,
Eric Fellner, Tom Hooper
Co-Producer: Jane Robertson
Executive Producer: Linda Reisman, Ulf Israel, Kathy
Morgan, Liza Chasin
Editor: Melanie Ann Oliver
Screenwriter: Lucinda Coxon (screenplay),
David Ebershoff (book)
Directory of Photography: Danny Cohen
Production Designer: Eve Stewart
Sound: Martin Beresford
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Principal Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander,
Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard, Matthias
Schoenaerts
Production Company
UK, USA coproduction
Working Title Films (UK),
Pretty Pictures (US),
ReVision Pictures (US),
Senator Global Productions
(DE)
Sales Agent
Focus Features/ Universal
Pictures
www.nbcuniversal.com
Working Title Films
26 Aybrook Street
London
W1U 4AN
+44 (0)20 7307 3000
www.workingtitlefilms.com
FEATURES
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Eye in the Sky
High-Rise
Synopsis
Synopsis
A timely thriller set in the world of remotely piloted
aircraft warfare. A terrorist-targeting drone mission
becomes a flashpoint when a civilian girl enters the
kill zone.
Based on the novel by J. G. Ballard: London, 1975. A
slick apartment tower rises above the Thames, the
beginnings of what will soon become the world’s biggest
financial hub. Dominating the landscape, it is simply
called the HIGH-RISE... its address a mark of exclusivity.
Its newest resident is Robert Laing, an ambitious young
doctor utterly seduced by the lifestyle and cutting-edge
technology the high-rise has to offer. He is introduced
to the seedy underbelly of the high-rise by Wilder, a
charismatic provocateur. The cracks in this apparently
flawless society grow rapidly, and Laing is shocked
at the depravity he sees. Life in the high-rise quickly
descends into madness and violence, and Laing finds
himself amongst the marauding hordes of bloodthirsty
tenants who take over the building, floor by floor.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 102 mins
Director: Gavin Hood
Producer: Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, David Lancaster
Executive Producer: Xavier Marchand, Benedict Carver,
Anne Sheehan, Claudia Bluemhuber, Guy Hibbert,
Stephen Wright
Editor: Megan Gill
Screenwriter: Guy Hibbert
Directory of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
Production Designer: Johnny Breedt
Sound: Nico Louw
Music: Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian
Principal Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman,
Barkhad Abdi, Iain Glen, Kim Engelbrecht
Production Company
UK, South Africa
coproduction
eOne Features (UK), Raindog
Films (UK), Moonlighting
Films (ZA)
eOne Features
45 Warren Street
London
W1T 6AG
+44 (0)20 3691 8600
[email protected]
http://features.eonefilms.com
Sales Agent
eOne Features
45 Warren Street
London
W1T 6AG
+44 (0)20 3691 8600
[email protected]
http://features.eonefilms.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Platform Competition
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 112 mins
Director: Ben Wheatley
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Co-Producer: Nick O’Hagan, Alainée Kent
Executive Producer: Peter Watson, Thorsten
Schumacher, Lizzie Francke, Sam Lavender, Anna
Higgs, Gabriella Martinelli, Christopher Simon,
Genevieve Lemal
Editor: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
Screenwriter: Amy Jump (screenplay), J.G. Ballard
(novel)
Directory of Photography: Laurie Rose
Production Designer: Mark Tildesley
Sound: Martin Pavey
Music: Clint Mansell
Principal Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna
Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy,
Keeley Hawes
Production Company
Recorded Picture Company
24 Hanway Street
London
W1T 1UH
+44 (0)20 7636 2251
[email protected]
www.recordedpicture.com
Sales Agent
HanWay Films
24 Hanway Street
London
W1T 1UH
+44 (0)20 7290 0750
[email protected]
www.hanwayfilms.com
The Idol
(Ya Tayr El Tayer)
Invention
Synopsis
A young boy in Gaza, Mohammad Assaf, dreams
of singing in the Cairo Opera House with his sister
and best friend, Nour. One day, Nour collapses and
is rushed to the hospital where it is discovered
that she needs a kidney transplant. Nour leaves
Mohammad with a dying wish that someday, he will
sing in Cairo. Escaping from Gaza to Egypt against
unbelievable odds, Assaf makes the journey of a
lifetime.
Synopsis
Shot in Paris, São Paulo and Toronto, acclaimed
Canadian contemporary artist Mark Lewis’s film
captures the ever-changing textures of these
cities through moving images of glass, light,
shadows and reflections. Offering a homage to
the city symphony films of the 1920s, while also
juxtaposing modernist architecture with the
compositional structures of old master paintings.
Directed by Academy Award® nominee Hany AbuAssad and based on the incredible true story of
Mohammad Assaf, the Gazan wedding singer who
became a worldwide sensation after winning ‘Arab
Idol’ in 2013.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special
Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Producer: Ali Jaafar, Amira Diab
Co-Producer: Baher Agbariya
Editor: Eyas Salman
Screenwriter: Hany Abu-Assad, Sameh Zoabi
Directory of Photography: Ehab Assal
Principal Cast: Qais Atallah, Hiba Atallah, Ahmad
Qassim, Abdelkarim Abu Baraka, Tawfeek Barhom,
Saber Shreim, Ahmed Al Rokh, Nadine Labaki
Production Company
UK, Palestine, Qatar,
Netherlands, United Arab
Emirates coproduction
Idol Film Production Ltd
(UK), 03 FZ LLC (UAE),
Cactus World Film (UK)
Idol Film Production Ltd
c/o Seville International
+1 514 878 2282
sevilleinternational@
filmsseville.com
http://sevilleinternational.
eonefilms.com
Sales Agent
Seville International (CA)
455, St-Antoine West Suite
300
H2Z 1J1 Montreal
Quebec
Canada
+1 514 878 2282
sevilleinternational@
filmsseville.com
http://sevilleinternational.
eonefilms.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Wavelengths
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 80 mins
Director: Mark Lewis
Producer: Eve Gabereau, Gerry Flahive, Anita Lee
Co-Producer: Emily Morgan
Executive Producer: Anita Lee
Editor: Andrew Hulme
Directory of Photography: Bobby Shore, Martin Testar
Production Company
UK, Canada coproduction
Soda Film + Art (UK), Mark
Lewis Studio (CA), National
Film Board of Canada (CA)
Soda Film + Art
c/o Soda Pictures
17 Blossom Street
London
E1 6PL
+44 (0)20 7377 1407
[email protected]
www.sodapictures.com
Sales Agent
National Film Board of
Canada (CA)
Chanelle Routhier
3155 Côte de Liesse Road
Montreal H4N 2N4
Quebec
Canada
+1 514 496 0693
[email protected]
www.nfb.ca
FEATURES
9
Kill Your Friends
1st
Kilo Two Bravo
1st
Synopsis
Synopsis
London, 1997; the British music industry is on a
winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, The Verve
rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing.
27-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and
burning his way through the music business, a world
where ‘no one knows anything’ and where careers
are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes
of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and
inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as
he searches for his next hit record. But as the hits dry
up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox takes the
concept of “killer tunes” to a murderous new level in a
desperate attempt to salvage his career.
A patrol of British paratroopers in Afghanistan find
themselves caught in the middle of a deathtrap,
courageously fighting for each other’s lives in a
minefield where the next step could be their last.
A suspense thriller based on the true story of the
bravery and brotherhood that took place on the
Kajaki Dam.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 103 mins
Director: Owen Harris
Producer: Gregor Cameron, Will Clarke, Len Blavatnik
Executive Producer: Amanda Ghost, Johnny Vaughan,
Andy Mayson, Mike Runagall, Aviv Giladi, Ben Giladi,
Vince Holden, Ivan Dunleavy, Steve Norris, Nicholas
Hoult, Kate Buckley, Danny Perkins, Dan MacRae,
James Sulley
Editor: Bill Smedley
Screenwriter: John Niven (novel and screenplay)
Directory of Photography: Gustav Danielsson
Production Designer: Charlotte Pearson
Sound: Henry Milliner
Music: Junkie XL
Principal Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Tom Riley, Georgia King,
Craig Roberts, Joseph Mawle, James Corden, Jim
Piddock, Edward Hogg, Ed Skrein, Rosanna Arquette,
Moritz Bleibtreu
Production Company
34 Foubert’s Place
London W1F 7PX
+44 (0)20 7478 7612
[email protected]
www.altitudefilment.com
[email protected]
www.ai-film.com
UNIGRAM
125 St. Marks Road
London W10 6NP
+44 (0)7787 533045
AI Film
4th Floor
8–12 Broadwick Street
London W1F 8HW
+44 (0)20 7439 9547
Sales Agent
Altitude Film Sales
34 Foubert’s Place
London W1F 7PX
+44 (0)20 7612 0662
[email protected]
www.altitudefilment.com/
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FEATURES
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Paul Katis
Producer: Andrew de Lotbiniere, Paul Katis,
Gareth Ellis-Unwin
Executive Producer: Phil Hunt, Alexa Jago, Alec
Mackenzie, Compton Ross, Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Lee
Vandermolen
Editor: Brin
Screenwriter: Tom Williams
Directory of Photography: Chris Goodger
Production Designer: Erik Rehl
Sound: Jon Thomas
Music: Phoebe Katis
Principal Cast: Mark Stanley, David Elliot, Jon-Paul Bell,
Malachi Kirby, Scott Kyle, Benjamin O’Mahony, Bryan
Parry, Liam Ainsworth
Production Company
Pukka Films Ltd
18 Hatton Place
London
EC1N 8RU
+44 (0)20 7866 0000
[email protected]
www.pukkafilms.com
Sales Agent
Metro International
Entertainment
16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Holborn
London
WC2A 3ED
+44 (0)20 7396 5301
[email protected]
www.metro-films.com
The Lady in the Van
LEGEND
Synopsis
The true story of the relationship between
renowned writer Alan Bennett and the singular
Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who
‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London
driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Synopsis
The true story of the rise and fall of London’s most
notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray,
both portrayed by Tom Hardy. Together, the Kray
Twins take over the city. But as their reign expands
power-struggles, fierce madness, and a woman
diminishes their bond; the weak link that could
cause their empire to collapse.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special
Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 104 mins
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Producer: Nicholas Hytner, Damian Jones,
Kevin Loader
Executive Producer: Miles Ketley, Charles Moore,
Christine Langan, Ed Wethered
Editor: Tariq Anwar
Screenwriter: Alan Bennett
Directory of Photography: Andrew Dunn
Production Designer: John Beard
Sound: Rashad Omar, Christopher Ackland, Dickie Earll,
Jack Wensley, William Miller, Robert Karlsson
Music: George Fenton
Principal Cast: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Frances
de la Tour, Jim Broadbent, Deborah Findlay, Roger
Allam, Gwen Taylor
Production Company
BBC Films (UK), TriStar
Productions (US)
BBC Films
Zone A, 7th Floor
BBC Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London
W1A 1AA
+44 (0)20 3614 4445
[email protected]
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/
Sales Agent
Sony Pictures Classics
550 Madison Avenue,
8th Floor
New York
NY 10022
USA
+1 212 833 8833
[email protected].
com
www.sonyclassics.com
A classic crime thriller from Academy Award®
winner Brian Helgeland, taking us into the secret
history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events
that secured the infamy of the Kray twins.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 131 mins
Director: Brian Helgeland
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Chris Clark, Quentin
Curtis, Brian Oliver
Co-Producer: Jane Robertson
Executive Producer: Kate Solomon, Amelia Granger,
Liza Chasin, Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern, Tom Hardy
Editor: Peter McNulty
Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland
Directory of Photography: Dick Pope
Production Designer: Tom Conroy
Sound: Danny Hambrook
Music: Carter Burwell
Principal Cast: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David
Thewlis, Taron Egerton, Tara Fitzgerald, with
Christopher Eccleston, and Chazz Palminteri
Production Company
Working Title Films
26 Aybrook Street
London
W1U 4AN
+44 (0)20 7307 3000
www.workingtitlefilms.com
Sales Agent
StudioCanal (FR)
1, Place du Spectacle
92130 Issy les Moulineaux
France
+33 1 71 35 35 35
pascale.hornus@
studiocanal.com
www.studiocanal.com
FEATURES
11
The Lobster
London Fields
1st
Synopsis
Synopsis
A love story set in the near future where single people,
according to the rules of The City, are arrested and
transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to
find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are
transformed into an animal of their choosing and
released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes
from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live
and falls in love, although it is against their rules.
London-set noir thriler based on Martin Amis’ novel Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a
dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She
begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different
men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 118 mins
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Producer: Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey,
Yorgos Lanthimos
Co-Producer: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Leontine
Petit, Carole Scotta, Joost de Vries, Derk-Jan Warrink
Executive Producer: Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Sam
Lavender
Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Screenwriter: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Directory of Photography: Thimios Bakatakis
Production Designer: Jacqueline Abrahams
Sound: Johnnie Burn
Principal Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica
Barden, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen, Ariane Labed,
Angeliki Papoulia, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Michael
Smiley, Ben Whishaw
Production Company
Ireland, UK, France, Greece,
Netherlands coproduction
Element Pictures (IE), Scarlet
Films(UK), Limp (UK), Faliro
House Productions SA (GR),
Haut et Court (FR), Lemming
Film (NL), British Film Institute
(UK), Channel Four Television
Corporation (UK)
Element Pictures UK
Lee Magiday
14 Newburgh Street
London W1F 7RT
+44 (0)20 7287 5420
[email protected]
www.elementpictures.ie
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FEATURES
Scarlet Films
Ceci Dempsey
+44 (0)7973 861543
[email protected]
Limp
c/o Lee Magiday
Element Pictures
+44 (0)20 7287 5420
[email protected]
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42 - 48 Great Portand Street
London
W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
info@protagonistpictures.
com
www.protagonistpictures.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 118 mins
Director: Mathew Cullen
Producer: Jordan Gertner, Chris Hanley, Geyer Kosinski
Co-Producer: Laurie Borg, Brian James Fitzpatrick, Jonathan
Fong, Joe Plenys, Janey Wu
Executive Producer: Reno Antoniades, Lilly Bright, Vikram
Chatwal, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Phil Hunt, Anthony Jabre,
David Guy Levy, Jeff Most, Gia Muresan, Debra Rodman,
Compton Ross, Fernando Sulichin, Sanny van Heteren, Tricia
van Klaveren, Darryn Welch
Editor: Doug Crise, Joe Plenys, Fred Fouquet, Mathew Cullen
Screenwriter: Roberta Hanley (screenplay), Martin Amis
(novel)
Directory of Photography: Guillermo Navarro
Production Designer: Jeremy Reed
Music: Jovan Ajder, Pablo Clements, James Griffith, Benson
Taylor, ToyDrum
Principal Cast: Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Jim
Sturgess, Johnny Depp, Cara Delevingne, Jason Isaacs
Co-Executive Producer: Rebecca Pick, Kurt Rappaport
Production Company
UK, USA coproduction
Muse Productions (US), Hero
Entertainment (CA), Media
Talent Group (US), Curiously
Bright Entertainment (US),
Head Gear Films (UK),
Lipsync Productions (UK),
MindSky Entertainment (US),
Periscope Entertainment
(US), Tartan Films (UK),
Vedette Finance (US)
Head Gear Films
Ashley House, 5th Floor
12 Great Portland Street
London W1W 8QN
+44 (0)20 7363 6085
[email protected]
www.headgearfilms.com/
Lipsync Productions
195 Wardour Street
London W1F 8ZG
+44 (0)20 7292 3000
[email protected]
www.lipsync.co.uk
Sales Agent
IM Global (US) (International
sales excluding US)
Beverly Quest Building
8201 Beverly Blvd. 5th Floor
LA, CA 90048 USA
+1 310 777 3590
[email protected]
www.imglobalfilm.com
Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
2000 Avenue of the Stars
LA, CA 90067 USA
+1 424 288 2000
[email protected]
www.caa.com
London Road
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Synopsis
Synopsis
A true story of friendship that forever changed
mathematics. In 1913, Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a
self-taught Indian mathematics genius traveled to
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forged a bond
with his mentor, the eccentric professor GH Hardy
(Jeremy Irons), and fought to reveal his mathematic
genius to the world.
‘London Road’ documents the events that shook
Suffolk in 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich
was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five
women. The residents of London Road had struggled
for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on
their street. The film follows the community who found
themselves at the epicentre of the tragic events. Using
their own words set to an innovative musical score,
‘London Road’ tells a moving story of ordinary people
coming together during the darkest of experiences.
The original musical drama ‘London Road’ was hailed
as a remarkable, ground-breaking work during two sellout runs at the UK’s National Theatre. This feature film
adaptation reunites the creative team of Alecky Blythe,
Adam Cork and Rufus Norris with the original cast, and
also features an ensemble cast of UK acting talent.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 92 mins
Director: Rufus Norris
Producer: Dixie Linder
Co-Producer: Martin Heriot
Executive Producer: David Sabel, Nick Marston,
Tally Garner, Christine Langan, Joe Oppenheimer,
Beth Pattinson, Norman Merry, Peter
Hampden, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross
Editor: John Wilson ACE
Screenwriter: Alecky Blythe (screenplay and lyrics),
Adam Cork (music and lyrics). Based on the stage
musical ‘London Road’ by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork
Directory of Photography: Danny Cohen BSC
Production Designer: Katrina Lindsay
Music: Adam Cork
Principal Cast: Olivia Colman, Anita Dobson, Tom Hardy
Production Company
A Cuba Pics / NT production
Cuba Pictures
Haymarket House
28-29 Haymarket
London SW1Y 4SP
+44 (0)20 7393 4487
[email protected]
cubapictures.co.uk/
BBC Films
Zone A, 7th Floor
BBC Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London W1A 1AA
+44 (0)20 3614 4445
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42-48 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
[email protected]
www.protagonistpictures.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 114 mins
Director: Matthew Brown
Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Jim Young, Joe
Thomas, Matthew Brown, Sofia Sondervan, Jon Katz
Executive Producer: Swati Bhise, Joseph N. Cohen,
Gary Ellis, Pamela Godfrey, Phil Hunt, Mark
Montgomery, Compton Ross, Manraj S. Sekhon,
Shail Shah, Tristine Skyler, Min-Li Tan, Masaaki Tanaka,
Richard Toussaint
Editor: JC Bond
Screenwriter: Matthew Brown (screenplay),
Robert Kanigel (book)
Directory of Photography: Larry Smith
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
Music: Coby Brown
Principal Cast: Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Devika Bhise,
Stephen Fry, Toby Jones
Production Company
Mister Smith
77 Dean Street
London
W1D 3SH
+44 (0)20 7494 1724
[email protected]
www.mistersmithent.com/
FEATURES
13
The Martian
Miss You Already
Synopsis
Synopsis
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark
Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and
left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived
and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile
planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw
upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find
a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
They say opposites attract. Milly (Toni Collette)
is the woman who has everything: a successful
career, a devoted husband, and two gorgeous kids.
Her best friend is Jess (Drew Barrymore): Jess
works in a community garden, lives in a boathouse
with her boyfriend Jago, and desperately wants a
baby. Friends since childhood, Jess and Milly can’t
remember a time they didn’t share everything –
secrets, clothes, even boyfriends; their differences
are the glue that binds them together. That is until
Milly is hit with life changing news and needs Jess’s
support more than ever. As Jess tries to balance her
own life with being there for Milly it is only a matter
of time before the pressure on their friendship
becomesintolerable.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 130 mins
Director: Ridley Scott
Producer: Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Michael
Schaefer, Mark Huffam, Aditya Sood
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Screenwriter: Drew Goddard (screenplay), Andy Weir
(novel)
Directory of Photography: Dariusz Wolski
Production Designer: Arthur Max
Sound: Oliver Tarney
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Principal Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen
Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean
Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Donald Glover,
Mackenzie Davis and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Production Company
USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
production
Scott Free Productions (UK),
Twentieth Century Fox (USA),
Genre Films (US), Mid Atlantic
Films (HU), International
Traders (JO)
Scott Free Productions
42 - 44 Beak Street
London
W1F 9RH
+44 (0)20 7437 3163
www.rsafilms.com/
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FEATURES
Sales Agent
Twentieth Century Fox (US)
10201 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles
CA 90035
USA
+1 310 369 1000
[email protected]
http://www.fox.com/
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 112 mins
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Producer: Christopher Simon
Executive Producer: Jerome Booth, Nicki Hattingh,
Sheryl Crown, Anne Sheehan, Samantha Horley, James
Norrie, Barnaby Southcombe, Lisa Lambert, Celine
Rattray, Trudie Styler, Catherine Hardwicke, Morwenna
Banks, Paul Andrew Williams
Editor: Phillip J. Bartell
Screenwriter: Morwenna Banks
Directory of Photography: Elliot Davis
Production Designer: Amanda McArthur
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Principal Cast: Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic
Cooper, Paddy Considine, Tyson Ritter, with Frances de
la Tour, and Jacqueline Bisset
Production Company
S Films
Unit 100
77 Beak Street
London W1F 9DB
+44 (0)20 7124 2422
[email protected]
New Sparta Films
27A Floral Street
London WC2E 9EZ
+44 (0)20 7124 2404
[email protected]
Sales Agent
The Salt Company
International
2nd Floor, Unit 19
Tileyard Studios
Tileyard Road
London N7 9AH
+44 (0)20 7535 6714
[email protected]
www.salt-co.com
Northern Soul
The Ones Below
1st
1st
Synopsis
Burnsworth, Lancashire is a shithole. And best
friends John and Matt want more from life than
just the prospect of a dead-end factory job in
their small northern town. They find their horizons
opened up by the discovery of black American soul
music and the British Northern Soul dance scene.
They dream of going to America to find the soul
record which will make them big DJs on the scene.
But the intensity of their rivalry changes their lives
forever.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 102 mins
Director: Elaine Constantine
Producer: Debbie Gray
Executive Producer: Julian Gleek, Ed Crozier, Robbie
Little, Marco Santucci, Henry Normal, Kevin Loader,
Kevin Phelan, Richard Searling
Editor: Stephen Haren
Screenwriter: Elaine Constantine
Directory of Photography: Simon Tindall
Production Designer: Robin Brown
Sound: Craig Rihoy
Principal Cast: Elliot James Langridge, Joshua
Whitehouse, Antonia Thomas, Steve Coogan, Lisa
Stansfield, Ricky Tomlinson
Production Company
Stubborn Heart Films
c/o Marco Santucci
Industry Art
85 Essex Road
Islington
London
N1 2SF
+44 (0)20 7226 7705
[email protected]
www.industryart.com/
Sales Agent
The Little Film Company
(US)
3940 Laurel Canyon
Boulevard
#807
Studio City
CA 91604
USA
+1 818 762 6999
info@thelittlefilmcompany
.com
www.thelittlefilmcompany
.com
Synopsis
Kate is pregnant. Theresa is pregnant and moving
in to the apartment below, with her partner. When
the two women meet one spring morning, a special
bond forms, developing into an intimate friendship
as they move closer to the births of their babies.
Until tragedy strikes. And changes everything. In
the most violent and shocking way.
With echoes of Hitchcock and Polanski, a terrifying
psychological thriller of love, betrayal and revenge,
bringing one woman’s personal nightmares vividly
to life, amidst the affluent loneliness of the modern
city.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 87 mins
Director: David Farr
Producer: Nikki Parrott
Executive Producer: Ben Hall, Christine Langan, Dixie
Linder, Nick Marston, Joe Oppenheimer, Phil Hunt,
Compton Ross
Editor: Chris Wyatt
Screenwriter: David Farr
Directory of Photography: Ed Rutherford
Production Designer: Francesca Balestra Di Mottola
Sound: Nigel Albermaniche
Music: Adem Ilhan
Principal Cast: Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey,
Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn
Production Company
Tigerlily Films
23 Blandford Court
St Peters Way
London N1 4SA
+44 (0)20 7923 1001
[email protected]
http://tigerlilyfilms.com/
Cuba Pictures
Haymarket House
28-29 Haymarket
London SW1Y 4SP
+44 (0)20 7393 4487
[email protected]
http://cubapictures.co.uk/
BBC Films
Zone A, 7th Floor
BBC Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London W1A 1AA
+44 (0)20 3614 4445
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/
Sales Agent
Protagonist Pictures
42 - 48 Great Portand St.
London W1W 7NB
+44 (0)20 7734 9000
[email protected]
www.protagonistpictures.com
FEATURES
15
Parched
A Patch of Fog
1st
Synopsis
Synopsis
In a rural Indian village, four ordinary women
begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in
servitude, and question the status quo that favours
men and ostracizes women for being educated and
opinionated.
Sandy leads a comfortable life in Belfast. He is
a university professor and a regular guest on a
popular television arts programme, and his one
novel, though published many years ago, is still in
print and regarded a classic. But Sandy has a habit
of nicking things. Shoplifting has become the one
little thrill in his overly domesticated life — but when
Sandy gets caught by Robert, a desperately lonely
security guard, his life is turned inside out.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special
Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 118 mins
Director: Leena Yadav
Producer: Aseem Bajaj, Ajay Devgn, Gulab Singh
Tanwar, Rohan Jagdale
Executive Producer: Anirudh Tanwar, Hughes Winborne
Editor: Kevin Tent, ACE
Screenwriter: Leena Yadav
Directory of Photography: Russell Carpenter, ASC
Production Designer: Amardeep Behl
Sound: Sound Design: Paul N.J. Ottosson; Sound
Mixing: David Stevens
Music: Hitesh Sonik
Principal Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte,
Surveen Chawla, Adil Hussain, Lehar Khan, Riddhi Sen,
Mahesh Balraj, Chandan Anand
Sales Agent
Seville International (CA) 455,
Shivalaya Entertainment (US), St-Antoine West Suite 300
Blue Waters Motion Pictures H2Z 1J1 Montreal
Quebec
(IN), Airan Consultants (IN),
Ashlee Films (IN), Marylebone Canada
+1 514 878 2282
Entertainment (UK), Ashlee
sevilleinternational@
Films (UK)
filmsseville.com
Ashlee Films
http://sevilleinternational.
Aseem Bajaj
eonefilms.com
151 Copse Hill
The Gersh Agency (US)
London
9465 Wilshire Blvd., 6th Floor
SW20 0SU
Beverly Hills
[email protected]
CA 90212
USA
+1 310 205 5868
[email protected]
www.gershagency.com/
Production Company
India, USA, UK coproduction
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FEATURES
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Discovery
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 112 mins
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Producer: Christopher Simon
Executive Producer: Jerome Booth, Nicki Hattingh,
Sheryl Crown, Anne Sheehan, Samantha Horley, James
Norrie, Barnaby Southcombe, Lisa Lambert, Celine
Rattray, Trudie Styler, Catherine Hardwicke, Morwenna
Banks, Paul Andrew Williams
Editor: Phillip J. Bartell
Screenwriter: Morwenna Banks
Directory of Photography: Elliot Davis
Production Designer: Amanda McArthur
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Principal Cast: Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic
Cooper, Paddy Considine, Tyson Ritter, with Frances
de la Tour, and Jacqueline Bisset
Production Company
The Fyzz Facility Ltd, The
Jones Company with the
support of Northern Ireland
Screen, BFI Film Fund,
Goldcrest Films, Ingenious
Investments
The Fyzz Facility Ltd
94 Cleveland Street
London
W1T 6NW
+44 (0)20 7388 7868
[email protected]
www.thefyzz.com
Sales Agent
13 Films (international sales
excluding North America)
8840 Wilshire Blvd. 2nd Floor
Beverly Hills
CA 90211
USA
+1 310 358 3026
[email protected]
www.13films.net
The Fyzz Facility Ltd (North
America sales)
94 Cleveland Street
London W1T 6NW
+44 (0)20 7388 7868
[email protected]
www.thefyzz.com
The Program
The Sky Trembles and
The Earth Is Afraid...
Synopsis
Synopsis
‘The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the
Two Eyes Are Not Brothers’ [the complete title
of this piece] is partially inspired by Paul Bowles’
story “A Distant Episode”, and charts a mysterious
transformation from observational making-of to
inventive adaptation, shot against a staggering
Moroccan landscape.
The true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the
most celebrated and controversial sportsmen, Lance
Armstrong. Armstrong was the ultimate sporting hero.
Following a gruelling battle with cancer, he returned
to his cycling career in 1999 with his sights set firmly
on winning the Tour de France. With the help of the
infamous Italian physician Michele Ferrari and team
director Johan Bruyneel, he developed the most
sophisticated doping program in the history of the
sport. This program allowed Lance and his American
teammates to dominate the world of cycling, winning
the Tour an unprecedented seven times. However,
not everyone believed the fairytale... Sunday Times
journalist, David Walsh soon began to question whether
the ‘world’s greatest athlete’ was ‘clean’. And, Walsh’s
costly battle to unveil the truth, saw him risk his own
career and reputation in exposing one of the greatest
deceptions of our time.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 103 mins
Director: Stephen Frears
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Tracey Seaward,
Kate Solomon
Executive Producer: Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern,
Amelia Granger, Liza Chasin
Editor: Valerio Bonelli
Screenwriter: John Hodge (screenplay). Inspired by
David Walsh’s book ‘Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of
Lance Armstrong’
Directory of Photography: Danny Cohen
Production Designer: Alan MacDonald
Sound: Peter Lindsay
Music: Alex Heffes
Principal Cast: Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd, Guillame
Canet, Jesse Plemons, Denis Ménochet, Lee Pace,
Edward Hogg and Dustin Hoffman
Production Company
UK, France coproduction
Working Title Films (UK),
StudioCanal (FR)
Working Title Films
26 Aybrook Street
London W1U 4AN
+44 (0)20 7307 3000
www.workingtitlefilms.com
Sales Agent
StudioCanal (FR)
1, Place du Spectacle
92130 Issy les Moulineaux
France
+33 1 71 35 35 35
pascale.hornus@
studiocanal.com
www.studiocanal.com
“Ben Rivers explores the illusion of filmmaking
in Morocco... The Moroccan Sahara is littered
with the legacy of films shot in its dramatic
vistas: abandoned sets that reveal the artifice of
filmmaking and trigger our recollection of the
half-imagined spaces of familiar films from decades
past.” Artangel
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Wavelengths
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 98 mins
Director: Ben Rivers
Producer: Jacqui Davies, Ben Rivers
Executive Producer: Cressida Hubbard, Michael Morris,
Lizzie Francke
Editor: Ben Rivers, Benjamin Mirguet
Directory of Photography: Ben Rivers
Sound: Philippe Ciompi
Principal Cast: Oliver Laxe
Sales Agent
Production Company
Artangel with the support of Jacqui Davies Ltd
85 Mallard Place
the BFI Film Fund
London
Artangel
TW1 4SW
31 Eyre Street Hill
+44 (0)7711 416621
London
[email protected]
EC1R 5EW
www.jacquidavies.com/
+44 (0)20 7713 1400
[email protected]
www.artangel.org.uk
Jacqui Davies Ltd
85 Mallard Place
London
TW1 4SW
+44 (0)7711 416621
[email protected]
www.jacquidavies.com/
FEATURES
17
Sunset Song
Urban Hymn
Synopsis
Synopsis
Set in the early 20th century, ‘Sunset Song’ begins
with the suicide attempt of a poverty stricken woman
in Scotland, broken by repeated childbirths, who kills
herself and poisons her twin babies. The story follows
one of the woman’s surviving daughters, Chris Guthrie,
who must manage the farm after her mother’s death,
and, after her father, who has had a stroke, becomes
bedridden. But when love comes to Chris she must send
her man off to the Great War and manage the farm in
a land about to be changed forever by the onset of
technology and war. How can we bear time, or subdue
nature? We cannot. We can only endure...
A redemptive coming of age story which follows
a neglected and wayward teen, Jamie, whose
incredible singing voice offers her an escape to a
better life, until she finds her loyalties torn between
her inspiring, unconventional care worker and her
possessive and volatile best friend.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 135 mins
Director: Terence Davies
Producer: Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos, Nicolas Steil
Executive Producer: Bob Last; Co-Executive Producer:
Alice De Sousa
Editor: David Charap
Screenwriter: Terence Davies (screenplay), Lewis
Grassic Gibbon (novel)
Directory of Photography: Michael McDonough
Production Designer: Andy Harris
Sound: Marc Thill
Music: Gast Waltzing
Principal Cast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie,
Daniela Nardini, Ian Pirie, Jack Greenlees, Douglas
Rankine, Trish Mullin, Linda McLaughlin, Ron Donachie
Production Company
UK, Luxembourg
coproduction
Hurricane Films
1st Floor, 13 Hope Street
Liverpool L1 9BQ
+44 (0)151 707 9700
[email protected]
www.hurricanefilms.net
Holdings Ecosse
12/196 Rose Street
Edinburgh
Scotland EH2 4AT
[email protected]
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FEATURES
Iris Productions UK
50 Openshaw Road
London
SE2 0TE
+44 (0)7957 548010
[email protected]
http://theirisgroup.eu
Sales Agent
Fortissimo Films (NL)
Van Diemenstraat 100
Amsterdam 1013 CN
The Netherlands
+31 20 627 32 15
[email protected]
www.fortissimofilms.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 114 mins
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Producer: Andrew Berg, Neil Chordia, John Sachs,
Daniel Toland
Executive Producer: Brian Berg, Ibrahim Dashishah, Phil
Hunt, Anwar Kawadri, Meg Leonard, Nick Moorcroft,
Compton Ross
Editor: István Király
Screenwriter: Nick Moorcroft
Directory of Photography: Denis Crossan
Production Designer: Laura Ellis Cricks
Sound: John Hayes, Dylan Voigt, Peter Allen
Music: Martyn Berg, Tom Linden
Principal Cast: Letitia Wright, Isabella Laughland,
Shirley Henderson, Steven Mackintosh, Ian Hart
Production Company
Eclipse Films
14 David Mews
London
W1U 6EQ
www.eclipsefilms.co.uk
Sales Agent
Metro International
Entertainment
16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3ED
+44 (0)20 7396 5301
[email protected]
http://www.metro-films.com
Youth (La giovinezza)
Synopsis
Springtime. Fred and Mick, two old friends now
approaching eighty, are on vacation together in
an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a
composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film
director, is still working. The two friends know that
their time is quickly running out, and they decide to
face their future together. They look with curiosity
and tenderness on their children’s confused lives,
Mick’s enthusiastic young writers, and the other
hotel guests, all of whom, it seems, have all the time
that they lack. And while Mick scrambles to finish
the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last
important film, Fred, who gave up his musical career
long ago, has no intention of returning to it. But
someone wants at all costs to hear his compositions
and to see him conduct again.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Special Presentations
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 118 mins
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima,
Carlotta Calori
Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli
Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino
Directory of Photography: Luca Bigazzi
Production Designer: Ludovica Ferrario
Music: David Lang
Principal Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel
Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda
Production Company
Italy, France, UK,
Switzerland coproduction
Indigo Film (IT), Medusa
Film (IT), Barbary Films (FR),
Pathé (FR), Number 9 Films
(UK), France 2 Cinéma (FR),
C-Films (CH)
Number 9 Films
Linton House 1st Floor
24 Wells Street
London W1T 3PH
+44 (0)20 7323 4060
[email protected]
www.number9films.co.uk/
Sales Agent
Pathé International (FR)
2, rue Lemennais
Paris 75008
France
+33 1 71 72 33 05
sales@patheinternational.
com
www.patheinternational.
com
FEATURES
19
UK
Documentaries
AT TIFF 2015
20
Being AP
Bolshoi Babylon
Synopsis
Synopsis
Nineteen-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy
(aka Tony McCoy) has notched up more than 4,300
wins, 700 falls, 40 broken bones and a BBC Sports
Personality of the Year Award in 2010 across a near
25-year racing career. This documentary follows AP
in the final year of his extraordinary career as he
fights to become champion for an unbelievable 20th
time and faces a future out of the saddle. Made with
exclusive access to the Northern Irish jockey, his
family and racing teams for the 2014-15 season.
The Bolshoi Ballet. Symbol of Russia, a world-famous
national treasure - mystical and intriguing. Recently,
however, the ballet company has been in the headlines
for all the wrong reasons. The 2013 acid attack on
the company’s director Sergei Filin, intrigue and
management changes have created lurid headlines.
Director Nick Read gains remarkable access to the
inner workings of the company for the first time as they
move into a new chapter in the wake of the notorious
attack. Bolshoi Babylon gives a voice to artistes and
company members who are not usually in the limelight
in irreverent and candid terms. Combining epic themes
with intimate portraits, and historical dramas with the
untold personal stories of agony and ecstasy that lie
behind every acclaimed performance.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 98 mins
Director: Anthony Wonke
Producer: Alan Maher, Nick Ryle, John Woollcombe
Co-Producer: Richard Moore
Executive Producer: Georges Bermann, Simon Ford,
Phil Hunt, Christine Langan, Joe Oppenheimer, Keith
Potter, Andrew Reid, Compton Ross, Madeleine
Sanderson
Editor: Paul Carlin, Kevin Konak
Directory of Photography: Thomas Elliott, Neil Harvey,
Andrew Thompson
Sound: Fiadhnait McCann, Timothy Watts, Andrew
Yarme
Music: Andrew Phillips
Principal Cast: Tony (AP) McCoy
Production Company
UK, Ireland coproduction
Moneyglass Films (UK),
Partizan Films (UK), Roads
Entertainment (IE) in
association with BBC Films
(UK) with support from Irish
Film Board (IE), Northern
Ireland Screen (UK), British
Horse Racing Authority/Great
British Racing (UK).
Moneyglass Films Limited
11 Belvoir Road
London SE22 0QY
+44 (0)7866 564577
[email protected]
Partizan Films
40/42 Lexington Street
London W1F 0LN
+44 (0)20 7851 0200
[email protected]
www.partizan.com/films/
BBC Films
BBC Broadcasting House
7th Floor, Zone A
Portland Place
London W1A 1AA
+44 (0)20 3614 4445
[email protected]
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 87 mins
Director: Nick Read
Producer: Mark Franchetti
Co-Producer: Vanessa Tovell
Executive Producer: Simon Chinn, Will Clarke,
Nick Fraser, Andy Mayson, Sheila Nevins, Maxim
Pozdorovkin, Mike Runagall, Sonja Scheider, Kate
Townsend, Katja Wildermuth
Editor: Jay Taylor, David Charap
Directory of Photography: Nick Read
Sound: Vasily Amochkin
Music: Colin Smith, Simon Elms
Principal Cast: Anastasia Meskova, Sergei Filin, Nikolai
Tsiskaridze, Boris Akimov, Maria Alexandrova, Maria
Allash, Vladimir Urin Archive Producer: Steve Bergson,
Masha Oleneva
Production Company
Red Velvet Films Ltd
18 Eastwood Road
London N10 1NL
+44 (0)20 3750 0922
British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC)
BBC Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London W1A 1AA
+44 (0)20 8743 8000
www.bbc.co.uk
Sales Agent
Altitude Film Sales
34 Foubert’s Place
London
W1F 7PX
+44 (0)20 7478 7612
[email protected]
www.altitudefilment.com/
DOCUMENTARIES
21
Dark Horse
The Hard Stop
Synopsis
An inspirational and occasionally heart-stopping
true story of a group of friends from a working
men’s club in Wales who decide to take on the elite
‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse.
Against all the odds, their young foal, raised on
nearby waste-land, goes on to become a champion.
Until one day disaster strikes…
Synopsis
In August 2011, 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot
and killed whilst being arrested by armed police in
Tottenham, London. This incident ignited a riot that
escalated into a week of the worst civil unrest in
recent British history.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 85 mins
Director: Louise Osmond
Producer: Judith Dawson
Executive Producer: Anna Higgs, Adam Partridge,
Julian Ware, Lizzie Francke, Anna Higgs,
Editor: Joby Gee
Screenwriter: Louise Osmond
Directory of Photography: Benjamin Kracun
Music: Anne Nikitin
Principal Cast: Dream Alliance (Horse), Jan Vokes, Brian
Vokes, Howard Davies, Angela Davies, Tony Kerby,
Maureen Jones, Eddie Thomas
Production Company
World’s End Productions
10 Denmark Street
London
WC2H 8TD
+44 (0)20 7240 3439
info@
worldsendproductions.com
www.worldsendproductions.
com/
Film4
124 Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 2TX
+44 (0)20 7396 4444
www.film4.com
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DOCUMENTARIES
Sales Agent
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42 - 48 Great Portand
Street
London
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com
www.protagonistpictures.
com/
‘The Hard Stop’ explores the life and death of Mark
Duggan, and features his childhood friends, Marcus
and Kurtis, as they struggle to come to terms with
the death of their friend - whilst also waiting to see
if the inquest into his shooting will provide them
with a satisfactory version of the truth.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - City to City London
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 85 mins
Director: George Amponsah
Producer: Dionne Walker
Executive Producer: Joe Bini
Editor: Michael Aaglund, James Devlin, Liam Leeson,
Josh Levinsky, Colin Nasbaum
Screenwriter: George Amponsah, Dionne Walker
Directory of Photography: Colin Elves, Mathias Pilz
Sound: Jez Spencer, Paul Mallet
Music: Roger Gouala
Principal Cast: Marcus Knox-Hooke, Kurtis Henville
Production Company
Produced in association
with Sundance Institute,
British Film Institute (BFI)
and Bertha Foundation
Ga Films Ltd
dionne.walker@
diverseworld.org.uk
George@Georgeamponsah.
com
The Reflektor Tapes
Sherpa
Synopsis
Synopsis
A fascinating insight into the making of Arcade Fire’s
international number one album ‘Reflektor’. AwardWinning filmmaker Kahlil Joseph recontextualizes
the album experience and the band’s creative
journey, transporting viewers into a kaleidoscopic
sonic and visual landscape. The film includes
breathtaking performances, never before seen
personal interviews and intimate moments captured
by the band.
Director Jennifer Peedom set out to uncover
tension in the 2014 Everest climbing season from
the point of view of the Sherpas, and instead
captured a tragedy when an avalanche struck,
killing 16 Sherpas. ‘Sherpa’ tells the story of how
the Sherpas united after the tragedy in the face of
fierce opposition to reclaim the mountain they call
Chomolungm.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 75 mins
Director: Kahlil Joseph
Producer: Dan Bowen, Omid Fatemi, Onye Anyanwu
Executive Producer: Barry Clark-Ewers, Scott Rodger,
Thomas Benski, Sam Sniderman, Yogita Puri, Mark
Foster
Editor: Matt Hollis, Daniel Song
Directory of Photography: Lol Crawley, Autumn
Cheyenne Durald, Malik Hassan Sayeed
Music: Arcade Fire
Principal Cast: Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry,
Win Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Will Butler, Jeremy Gara
Production Company
Pulse Films
17 Hanbury Street
London
E1 6QR
+44 (0)20 7426 5700
[email protected]
www.pulsefilms.co.uk
Sales Agent
Arts Alliance Ltd
1st Floor, 75-76 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QH
+44 (0)20 7734 8595
[email protected]
www.artsalliance.com
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 96 mins
Director: Jennifer Peedom
Producer: Bridget Ikin, John Smithson
Executive Producer: John Maynard
Editor: Christian Gazal
Screenwriter: Jennifer Peedom
Directory of Photography: Renan Ozturk, Hugh Miller,
Ken Sauls
Sound: Sam Petty
Music: Antony Partos
Principal Cast: Phurba Tashi Sherpa, Russell Brice,
Ed Douglas
Production Company
Australia, UK coproduction
Felix Media (AU), Arrow
Media (UK)
Arrow Media
1st Floor, 17-18 Margaret
Street
London
W1W 8RP
+44 (0)20 7489 6300
[email protected]
www.arrowmedia.com/
DOCUMENTARIES
23
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s
Fight For Freedom
Synopsis
A visceral, in-depth look at the bloody Ukrainian
uprising in Kiev’s Maidan Square in the winter of
2013-14 that resulted in the removal of the Russianbacked President Viktor Yanukovych.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 102 mins
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
Producer: Evgeny Afineevsky, Den Tolmor
Co-Producer: Eduard Georgadze, Kostyantyn
Ignatchuk, Lina Klebanova, Pavlo Peleshok, Galyna
Sadomtseva-Nabaranchuk
Executive Producer: Lisa Nishimura, John Battsek, Lati
Grobman, Angus Wall, Adam Del Deo, Christa Campbell,
David Dinerstein, Andrew Ruhemann, Dennis L. Kogod,
Nadine Khapsalis Kogod, Bohdan Batruch
Editor: Will Znidaric
Directory of Photography: Alex Kashpur, Andriy
Havryshchuk, Arturas Morozovas, Constantin
Shandybin, Damian Kolodiy, Dmytro Patyutko, Eduard
Georgadze, Galyna Sadomtseva-Nabaranchuk,
Halyna Lavrinets, Ielizaveta Smith, Kirill Kniazev, Inna
Goncharova, Kostyantyn Ignatchuk, Lizogub
Music: Jasha Klebe
Production Company
Ukraine, USA, UK
coproduction
Netflix (US), Afineevsky Tolmor Production (US),
UkrStream TV (UA ), SPN
Production (UA), Passion
Pictures (UK), Campbell
Grobman Films (US), Rock
Paper Scissors (US), Pray
for Ukraine Production (US)
Passion Pictures
County House
33-34 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1JN
+44 (0)20 7323 9933
[email protected]
www.passion-pictures.com
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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
UK Shorts and
Installations
at TIFF 2015
25
7 Sheep
A Distant Episode
Synopsis
A lonely little girl tries to create a new world for
herself and an equally lonely man. In a visually
stunning dreamscape, she finds that freedom and
home are synonymous — and that they come at a
steep cost.
Synopsis
Shot on the otherworldly beaches of Morocco in
silvery black-and-white 16mm Scope ‘A Distant
Episode’ transforms behind-the-scenes footage
into a dreamy film fragments depicting sci-fi
incursions into a mythic landscape.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Short Cuts
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Wavelengths
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 21 mins
Director: Wiktoria Szymanska
Producer: Wiktoria Szymanska, Martin Boege
Editor: Wiktoria Szymanska, Mirjam Strugalla,
Pascale Hannoyer
Screenwriter: Wiktoria Szymanska
Directory of Photography: Martin Boege
Sound: Pablo Fernandez, STUDIO SUR MEXICO, Omnia
Music: Ricardo Cortes
Principal Cast: Rowen Rodriguez, Paco Beverido,
Karmina Sanchez
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 20 mins
Director: Ben Rivers
Producer: Jacqui Davies, Ben Rivers
Editor: Ben Rivers
Directory of Photography: Ben Rivers
Sound: Carles Santos
Production Company
Poland, UK, Denmark,
Mexico coproduction
Production Company
Jacqui Davies Ltd
85 Mallard Place
London
TW1 4SW
+44 (0)7711 416621
[email protected]
www.jacquidavies.com/
Luna W UK (UK), TeaFilms
(MX)
Luna W UK
Wiktoria Szymanska, Martin
Boege
5 Bourlet Close
London
W1W 7BL
+44 (0)20 7436 8584
[email protected]
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SHORTS AND INSTALLATIONS
Sales Agent
Jacqui Davies Ltd
85 Mallard Place
London
TW1 4SW
+44 (0)7711 416621
[email protected]
www.jacquidavies.com/
La Giubba
New Eyes
Synopsis
Synopsis
This installation piece is the first major collaboration
between British artist Corin Sworn and Canadian
artist Tony Romano.
In a bustling village near Addis Ababa, an Ethiopian
girl becomes aware of strange new feelings that are
both discomfiting and exciting. As her burgeoning
sexuality begins to colour her experience of the
world, it threatens to bring her into conflict with
societal expectations.
‘La Giubba’ follows the intersections of five drifters
over the course of two summer days in southern
Italy. A young Albanian man and his daughter search
for a swimming coach who fled their homeland in
the 1990s, but instead find an Arbëresh community
settled by their countrymen 600 years earlier. Two
theatre actors take on a dubious commission to
increase audiences in the rural south and traverse
the landscape fashioning little theatres of belief,
until a Canadian interloper turns up. Employing
professional and amateur actors, ‘La Giubba’ situates
its nomadic characters within both the stunning
Italian landscape and the history inscribed upon it,
visible and unseen.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Wavelengths
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 90 min Installation piece
Director: Corin Sworn, Tony Romano
Producer: Corin Sworn, Tony Romano
Production Company
Corin Sworn
Representation:
KoppeAstner Gallery
Glasgow
+44 (0)141 248 8177
[email protected]
www.koppeastner.com/
Natalia Hug Gallery (DE)
Jülicher Straße 14
50674 Cologne
Germany
+49 174 185 1219
[email protected]
www.nataliahug.com/
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Short Cuts
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 12 mins
Director: Hiwot Admasu Getaneh
Producer: François d’Artemare, Lisa Scott Gordon
Editor: Henok Legesse
Screenwriter: Hiwot Admasu Getaneh
Directory of Photography: Dawit Zewdu
Production Designer: Danawit Habtemariam
Sound: Habtamu Gebrehiwot
Principal Cast: Selam Fikadu, Berite Eshetu, Surafel
Tsegaye, Feven Teshome, Yohannes Getachew,
Yonathan Girma, Yitayish Dagne
Production Company
France, UK coproduction
Les Films de l’Après-midi
(FR), gbgg Productions (UK)
gbgg Productions
Lisa Scott Gordon
The Workshop
High Street
Lewes
BN7 1XU
+44 (0)7952 811016
lisag@gbggproductions.
com
www.gbggproductions.com
SHORTS AND INSTALLATIONS
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Rate Me
Solo for Rich Man
Synopsis
A portrait of teenage escort, Coco.
Synopsis
Inspired by William Gaddis’s novel “JR”, ‘Solo for
Rich Man’ restages a quintet of performance pieces
(including one by Fluxus artist George Maciunas)
from a four-day experimental music workshop for
children conceived by artist and filmmaker Beatrice
Gibson and renowned cellist Anton Likoszevieze.
What begins as a summary of online reviews of
a teenage escort becomes a provocative and
formally audacious commentary on the fluidity of
identities and perceptions of young women in the
Internet age. Indeed, the only thing that’s certain
is that all these people who claim to know “Coco”
may not know anything at all.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Short Cuts
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 17 mins
Director: Fyzal Boulifa
Producer: Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa
Executive Producer: Nik Holltum, Yoni Magid,
Scott Sullivan, Alisa Pomeroy
Editor: Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa
Screenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa
Directory of Photography: Taina Galis
Production Designer: Tilly Shiner
Sound: Anna Bertmark
Music: Felicita
Principal Cast: Zehra Zorba, Leo Hatton
Production Company
Too True Films Ltd
141 Wellesley Court
London
W9 1RH
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Wavelengths
Details
Year: 2015
Running Time: 15 mins
Director: Beatrice Gibson
Producer: Denna Cartamkhoob
Executive Producer: Film London, Mike Sperlinger,
Collective Edinburgh,
Grazer Kunstverein, Laura Bartlett Gallery,
Sally Campbell, Tim Nash
Editor: Beatrice Gibson
Directory of Photography: Deepa Keshvala,
Nick Gordon
Production Designer: Shaun Fenn
Sound: Sound Design: Beatrice Gibson; Sound
Recordist: Simon Reynell;
Sound Mix: Kath Pollard
Principal Cast: Anton Lukoszevieze, George Harrington
Production Company
Beatrice Gibson
c/o Laura Barlett Gallery
4 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT
+44 (0)20 3487 0507
www.laurabartlettgallery
.com/
Somesuch & Co
Lara Coker Hutchins
Unit 4E, 4th Floor
Zetland House
5-25 Scrutton Street
London
EC2A 4HJ
+44 (0)20 3487 1270
[email protected]
http://somesuch.co/
SHORTS AND INSTALLATIONS
Sales Agent
LUX Film and Video
Shacklewell Studios
18 Shacklewell Lane
London
E8 2EZ
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[email protected]
http://lux.org.uk/
Index of Films
UK Features at TIFF 2015
5 45 Years
5 Born To Be Blue
6 Brooklyn
6 Cemetery of Splendour
(Rak Ti Khon Kaen)
7 Couple in a Hole
7 The Danish Girl
8 Eye in the Sky
8 High-Rise
9 The Idol (Ya Tayr El Tayer)
9 Invention
10 Kill Your Friends
10 Kilo Two Bravo
11 The Lady in the Van
11 LEGEND
12 The Lobster
12 London Fields
13 London Road
13 The Man Who Knew Infinity
14 The Martian
14 Miss You Already
15 Northern Soul
15 The Ones Below
16 Parched
16 A Patch of Fog
17 The Program
17 The Sky Trembles and The Earth
Is Afraid...
18 Sunset Song
18 Urban Hymn
19 Youth (La giovinezza)
UK Documentaries at TIFF 2015
21 Being AP
21 Bolshoi Babylon
22 Dark Horse
22 The Hard Stop
23 The Reflektor Tapes
23 Sherpa
24 Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight
For Freedom
UK Shorts and Installations
at TIFF 2015
26 7 Sheep
26 A Distant Episode
27 La Giubba
27 New Eyes
28 Rate Me
28 Solo for Rich Man
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