Cannes 2014 - British Council Film

UK Film
Catalogue
Cannes
2014
www.weareukfilm.com
www.britishcouncil.org/film
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Introduction
Main Competition
Un Certain Regard
Directors' Fortnight
Critics' Week
Cinéfondation
Index of Films
Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol
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Film Catalogue
Introduction
The 67th Festival de Cannes includes a large selection of UK Film in its
2014 edition.
This Catalogue includes details of all the UK productions and official
co-productions screening in the Festival. It is divided into the Festival’s
various sections: Main Competition (including features and shorts); Un
Certain Regard; Directors’ Fortnight; Critics’ Week; and Cinéfondation.
The key UK Film organisations are represented in Cannes under the single
umbrella of WE ARE UK FILM, a grouping of UK film national and regional
agencies. 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 teams from Cannes Official
Selection, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week to arrange preview
screenings in London of the best new British films. 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. In order to aid research we also choose a selection of
films to represent the range of UK filmmaking from the Directory each year
to form a UK Film Catalogue and we compile occasional additional
Catalogues (like this one) detailing the UK films which have been selected
to appear in premier international Film Festivals. Each catalogue is
compiled as a printable PDF and is intended as a reference tool particularly
to assist Festival programmers, film buyers and sales agents, as well as
other filmmakers, students, statisticians and film historians.
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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Film Catalogue
Main Competition
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Film Catalogue
Main Competition
Jimmy's Hall
Mr. Turner
Synopsis
In 1921, Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural
crossroads in Ireland, where young people could come to learn, to argue,
to dream... but above all to dance and have fun. Jimmy's Hall celebrates
the spirit of these free-thinkers.
Synopsis
Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric,
British painter JMW Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death
of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and
occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a
seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea.
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 109 mins
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Rebecca O'Brien
Executive Producer: Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat, Vincent
Maraval, Andrew Lowe
Editor: Jonathan Morris
Screenwriter: Paul Laverty
Directory of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: Fergus Clegg
Sound: Kevin Brazier
Music: George Fenton
Principal Cast: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton, Brian F. O’Byrne
Production Partners: Wild Bunch, Why Not, Canal+, Free TV, BIM, BFI
Production Company
Sixteen Films
2nd Fl
187 Wardour St
London W1F 8ZB
Tel: +44 (0)20 7734 0168
Fax: +44 (0)20 7439 4196
http://www.sixteenfilms.co.uk/
Sales Agent
Wild Bunch
25 Powis Terrace
London W11 1JJ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7792 9791
Fax: +44 (0)20 7792 9871
http://www.wildbunch.biz/
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 149 mins
Director: Mike Leigh
Producer: Georgina Lowe
Executive Producer: Norman Merry, Tessa Ross, Gail Egan
Editor: Jon Gregory
Screenwriter: Mike Leigh
Directory of Photography: Dick Pope
Production Designer: Suzie Davies
Music: Gary Yershon
Principal Cast: Timothy Spall, Tom Wlaschiha, Lesley Manville, Roger
Ashton-Griffiths
Production Partners: Thin Man Films, Film4, Focus Features, BFI,
LipSync Productions, Xofa Productions, Diaphana Films, France 3,
Amusement Park Films, Canal +, Cine +, France Télévisions
Production Company
Thin Man Films
9 Greek St
London, W1D 4DQ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7734 7372
[email protected]
www.thinmanfilms.co.uk
Film4
124 Horseferry Rd
London, SW1P 2TX
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7396 4444
www.film4.com/
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Main Competition
Sales Agent
Sunray Films
12 Sunray Avenue
Herne Hill
London, SE24 9PY
UK
Tel: +44 (0)758 033 758
[email protected]
Leidi
Synopsis
Leidi lives with her mom and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn't
shown up in days. That sunny morning, after she bathes her baby, Leidi
is sent by her mother to buy plantains. She meets a guy who tells her he
has seen Alexis with another girl. She forgets about bringing home the
plantains and embarks on a journey to find him. Leidi won't return home
until she finds the father of her child.
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 16 mins
Director: Simón Mesa Soto
Producer: Diana Patiño Martínez
Editor: Ricardo Saraiva
Directory of Photography: Juan Sarmiento G.
Sound: Andrés Mo
Art Director: Tatiana Vera; Assistant Director: Santiago León; Production
Manager: Lina Tangarife
Production Company
London Film School
24 Shelton Street
London WC2H 9UB
Tel: +44 (0)207 836 9642
Fax: +44 (0)207 497 3718
http://lfs.org.uk/
[email protected]
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Main Competition
Un Certain Regard
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Film Catalogue
Un Certain Regard
Snow In Paradise
Synopsis
Based on a true story of Dave who thrives on drugs and violence in
London's East End. When his actions kill his best friend, Tariq, Dave is
propelled into unknown feelings of shame and remorse. He finds Islam
and a new peace but his old life comes back to taunt him.
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Andrew Hulme
Producer: Christine Alderson
Editor: Barry Moen
Screenwriter: Martin Askew, Andrew Hulme
Directory of Photography: Mark Wolf
Production Designer: Sophia Chowdhury, Alexandra Walker
Music: Kevin Pollard
Principal Cast: Frederick Schmidt, Martin Askew, David Spinx, Aymen
Hamdouchi, Claire-Louise Cordwell
Production Company
Ipso Facto Productions
56 Cambridge Road
Twickenham
Surrey TW1 2HL
http://www.ipsofactofilms.com
[email protected]
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Un Certain Regard
Sales Agent
The Match Factory GmbH
Balthasarstr. 79-81
50670 Cologne / Germany
Tel: +49 (0)221 539 709-0
Fax: +49 (0)221 539 709-10
[email protected]
Directors' Fortnight
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Film Catalogue
Directors' Fortnight
Catch Me Daddy
Pride
Synopsis
A girl in her late teens has run away from her family with her drifter
boyfriend. Holed up together in a Yorkshire town on the edge of the
moors, they live a hand-to-mouth existence. Aaron is AWOL from the
army, while Laila knows her family won't let her run without a fight. Two
carloads of bounty hunters roll into town asking questions and flashing a
photo of Laila. Hardmen hired by the girl's father with her brother in tow.
They find her. There's a confrontation. Her brother is killed. The stakes
have gone up.
Synopsis
It’s the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National
Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in
London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to
support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem:the
Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
They've got to get out of town. They head onto the moors, pursued by
men who will stop at nothing to bring Laila back to Daddy. Propelled to a
violent conclusion, father and daughter come face to face in a terrible
confrontation.
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Daniel Wolfe
Producer: Michael Elliott, Hayley Williams
Executive Producer: Jim Mooney, Walli Ullah
Screenwriter: Matthew Wolfe, Daniel Wolfe
Directory of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: Sami Khan
Principal Cast: Conor McCarron, Gary Lewis, Nichola Burley, Sameena
Jabeen Ahmed, Anwar Hussain, Barry Nunney, Shabaz Kaman, Ali
Ahmad, Adnan Zakir Hussain
Production Partners: BFI, Film 4, Lipsync Productions, Screen Yorkshire,
Studio Canal
Production Company
Emu Films
111A Wardour St
London
W1F 0UJ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7183 0925
http://www.emufilms.com
[email protected]
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Directors' Fortnight
Sales Agent
Altitude Film Sales
4 Market Place
London W1W 8AD
England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7612 0662
http://www.altitudefilment.com/
[email protected]
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 117 mins
Director: Matthew Warchus
Producer: David Livingstone
Executive Producer: Cameron McCracken, Christine Langan, Natascha
Wharton
Editor: Melanie Oliver
Screenwriter: Stephen Beresford
Directory of Photography: Tat Radcliffe
Production Designer: Simon Bowles
Sound: Nigel Squibbs, Tony Gibson, Blair Jollands
Music: Christopher Nightingale
Principal Cast: Ben Schnetzer, George Mackay, Joseph Gilgun, Paddy
Considine, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Andrew Scott, Dominic West,
Freddie Fox
Production Partners: BBC Films, BFI
Production Company
Calamity Films
Unit 2, Waldo Works
Waldo Road
London, NW10 6AW
UK
Tel: +44 (0)208 9641315
www.calamityfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent
Pathé International
6 Ramillies Street
London, W1F 7TY
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7462 4415
[email protected]
www.pathe.co.uk
Queen and Country
Synopsis
It is 1952. Bill Rowan is eighteen years old, dreaming his life away at the
family's riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years'
conscription in the British Army. His idyll is shattered by the harsh
realities of boot camp. He meets Percy, an amoral prankster; they are
rivals and antagonists, but they gradually forge a deep friendship in the
claustrophobic environment of a closed, prison-like training camp. The
pressure is briefly relieved by excursions into the outside world, where
they both fall in love. Finally, Bill is confronted with the shattered lives of
wounded boys returning from Korea.
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 115 mins
Director: John Boorman
Producer: John Boorman, Kieran Corrigan
Co-Producer: Anne-Laura Labadie, Jean Labadie, Vlad Paunescu
Executive Producer: Mary Alleguen, Cristian Bostanescu
Editor: Ron Davis
Screenwriter: John Boorman
Directory of Photography: Seamus Deasy
Production Designer: Anthony Pratt
Music: Stephen McKeon
Principal Cast: David Thewlis, Tamsin Egerton, Vanessa Kirby, Caleb
Landry Jones, Richard E. Grant, Sinéad Cusack, Aimee-Ffion Edwards,
David Hayman
Production Partners: IFB, BFI, Le Pacte, Natixis Coficine
Production Company
Merlin Films
33 Fitzwilliam Place
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353 (01) 676 6588
http://www.merlin-films.com/
[email protected]
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Directors' Fortnight
Sales Agent
Le Pacte
5 rue Darcet
Paris 75017
France
Tel: + 33 (01) 44 69 59 59
http://www.le-pacte.com/
[email protected]
Critics' Week
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Film Catalogue
Critics' Week
Crocodile
Synopsis
A bereaved headmaster fights a crocodile.
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 15 mins
Director: Gaelle Denis
Producer: Ohna Falby, Zorana Piggott
Executive Producer: Natascha Wharton, Emily Kyriakides, David Segal
Hamilton
Editor: Paul Hardcastle, Nicolas Chaudeurge
Screenwriter: Robin French
Directory of Photography: David Ungaro
Production Designer: Carly Reddin
Sound: Doug Haywood
Music: Tara Creme
Principal Cast: Michael Gould, Alex Macqueen, Lucinda Raikes, Oliver
Johnstone, Alecky Blythe, Apoa Falby Clark
Production Partner: BFI
Production Company
Life to Live Films
London N4 4LD
Tel: +44 (0)7768 51 2689
http://lifetolivefilms.com/
[email protected]
Lighthouse
28 Kensington Street
Brighton
BN1 4AJ
Tel: +44 (0)1273 647197
http://lighthouse.org.uk/
[email protected]
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Critics' Week
Sales Agent
Life to Live Films
London N4 4LD
Tel: +44 (0)7768 51 2689
http://lifetolivefilms.com/
[email protected]
Cinéfondation
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Cinéfondation
The Bigger Picture
Synopsis
'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one
brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly
unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high
painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous
tale of caring for an elderly relative.
Details
Year: 2014
Running Time: 8 mins
Director: Daisy Jacobs
Producer: Chris Hees
Editor: Vera Simmonds
Screenwriter: Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka
Directory of Photography: Max Williams
Production Designer: Elo Soode
Sound: Jonas Jensen
Music: Huw Bunford
Principal Cast: Alisdair Simpson, Anne Cunningham, Christopher
Nightingale
Stop Motion Animation: Chris Wilder; VFX / SFX Supervisor: Ross Allen;
Online Editor & Colour Grader: Ross Allen
Production Company
National Film and Television
School
Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield
Bucks HP9 1LG
Tel: +44 (0)1494 671234
[email protected]
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Index of Films
Main Competition
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Jimmy's Hall
4
Mr. Turner
5
Leidi
Un Certain Regard
7
Snow In Paradise
Directors' Fortnight
9
Catch Me Daddy
9
Pride
10
Queen and Country
Critics' Week
12
Crocodile Cinéfondation
14
The Bigger Picture
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