Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio starts filming in London

23 March 2011

Principal photography on Berberian Sound Studio, the second feature film from writer/director Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga), will commence on 24 March 2011 in London. 

A hauntological horror Berberian Sound Studio stars award-winning actor Toby Jones (Infamous, Frost/Nixon, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets) in the lead role. An Illuminations and Warp X production, the film will be produced by Keith Griffiths (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Little Otik, Institute Benjamenta) and Mary Burke (Submarine, Bunny and The Bull). Nic Knowland Bsc (Barbarians at the Gate) is the cinematographer and editor is Academy Award winner Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire).  Broadcast will score the music for the film.

Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a shy and nondescript sound engineer from the UK is hired to mix the latest giallo film by horror maestro, Santini (Antonio Mancino) and he soon finds himself caught up in a forbidding world of bitter actors, capricious foley artists and confounding bureaucracy. The longer Gilderoy spends mixing screams and the bloodcurdling sounds of hacked vegetables, the more homesick he becomes for his garden shed studio in Dorking. His mother's letters alternate between banal gossip and an ominous hysteria, which gradually mirrors the black magic of Santini's film that Gilderoy is responsible for orchestrating. As both time and realities shift, Gilderoy finds himself lost in an otherworldly spiral of sonic and personal mayhem.

Berberian Sound Studio was developed by Illuminations Films with Lizzie Francke at the UK Film Council and Film4 and will be the ninth film to shoot from Warp X's production slate, with the support of the UK Film Council, Film4, Screen Yorkshire and Geissendoerfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion KG in association with Madman Entertainment. The film will be co-produced by veteran German producer/director Hans Geissendoerfer and will be executive produced by Film4's Katherine Butler, Warp's Robin Gutch and Screen Yorkshire's Hugo Heppell.  The Match Factory is handling international sales. 

Reading-born writer/director Peter Strickland's first feature film Katalin Varga was short entirely independently in 2006 and later went on to win many awards including a Silver Bear in Berlin and The European Film Academy's Discovery of the Year award in 2009. Katalin Varga screened at festivals throughout the world and was sold in many territories. Prior to Katalin Varga, Strickland made a number of short films and produced several records of abstract music, field recordings and spoken word.

British actor Toby Jones enjoyed critical acclaim and a Best Actor award from the London Critic's Circle for his portrayal of Truman Capote in Infamous (2005), followed by roles in The Painted Veil, Amazing Grace, Elizabeth I and The Mist.  In 2008 he portrayed Hollywood super agent Swifty Lazar in Frost/Nixon and Karl Rove in Oliver Stone's Bush biopic W.  Toby voiced Dobby in the Harry Potter movies and appeared in ‘Doctor Who' as The Dream Lord.  His forthcoming films include David Gordon Green's Your Highness, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, Mikael Hafstrom's The Rite, the role of Dr Zola in Joe Johnston's Captain America.  Most recently he has completed filming on Simon Curtis' My week with Marilyn, Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy opposite Colin Firth and the thriller Red Lights with Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver. On stage Toby starred in ‘The Play What I Wrote' in 2001, receiving an Olivier award for his performance as Arthur.  He has since appeared on stage in plays including ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour', ‘Parlour Song' and ‘The Painter'. 

Over the last 35 years producer Keith Griffiths has been bringing to the screen work by the most talented directors in Britain and worldwide including the Brothers Quay, Patrick Keiller, Chris Petit, the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and, most recently, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won him and Griffiths the Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival.  During the 70s Griffiths produced numerous films including Chris Petit's Radio On, before founding the London-based Koninck Studios and producing the Brothers Quay's first short films.  These were interspersed with award-winning documentaries on figures including Len Lye, Robert Breer, Oskar Fischinger, Andy Warhol and Jan Svankmajer, whose feature film career he helped establish with Alice (1987) and whose subsequent films Griffiths executive produced.  He also produced Patrick Keiller's features London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997) and Robinson in Ruins (2010) and the Chris Petit Iain Sinclair collaborations The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000), London Orbital (2002) and Content (2009), while continuing to work with the Brothers Quay on their breakthrough short Street of Crocodiles (1986) and their feature debut Institute Benjamenta (1995).  More recently, Griffiths co-produced six features to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006.  They were Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun), Half Moon (Bahman Ghobadi), I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang), Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho), Paraguayan Hammock (Paz Encina) and Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul).  He recently completed executive producing Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) and is currently executive producing Simon Pummell's dramatised and animated feature documentary Shock Head Soul.  In addition to his film-making activities, Keith Griffiths is a respected authority on art cinema and the avant-garde, having written numerous articles on the subject.  He won the Observer-Prudential/Arts Council Award for Film in 1994.

Producer Mary Burke works across both Warp X and Warp Films, where she has been responsible for cultivating fresh UK talent since the company's inception in 2002.  Mary was recently chosen for Variety's 2010 Producers to Watch List.  Berberian Sound Studio is Mary's fourth feature, following Richard Ayoade's critically acclaimed Submarine, Paul King's Bunny and The Bull (2009) and Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures (2008), which were both developed and produced on the Warp X slate.  Mary's second project with Chris Waitt was ‘Fur TV' - a dirty puppet comedy television series for MTV.  Originally joining Warp to work on Chris Morris' BAFTA award-winning short My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, Mary also produced the short Rubber Johnny for maverick video director Chris Cunningham in 2005 and since then has worked on a raft of projects for the Warp X and Warp Films slates including Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes and This Is England and Olly Blackburn's Donkey Punch and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Notes to Editors:

ILLUMINATIONS FILMS

Producers Simon Field and Keith Griffiths manage Illuminations Films. They executive produced the New Crowned Hope series of films which included features by Bahman Ghobadi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tsai Ming-Liang, Garin Nugroho, Paz Encina and  Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century. They also produced the latter's major multi-platform project Primitive and his Cannes Palme d'Or winning feature Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
 
Projects in development include a new Brothers Quay film Sanatorium under the Hour Glass, an adaptation of Henry James' Beast in the Jungle to be directed by Clara van Gool, written with Glyn Maxwell, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mekong Hotel. Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio is in production. They are executive producing further productions including Simon Pummell's Shock Head Soul and his installation The Sputnik Effect.

In post-production is Dave McKean's second feature film Luna. Recently completed are Jan Svankmaker's Surviving Life, Chris Petit's feature length documentary essay film, Content, Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins and Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald). www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

WARP X

Pioneering digital film studio Warp X is based in Sheffield, with a satellite office in London. Warp X shares the reputation of its sister companies Warp Records and Warp Films (Submarine, Four Lions, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, This is England, Dead Man's Shoes) for combining creative originality with commercial success. 

By harnessing cutting edge digital technology and low budget production methods Warp X makes high value movies that can reach cinema audiences across the world. These films are being managed and produced by Warp X for the Low Budget Feature Film Scheme, originally set up in 2006 by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4 to revitalise the low-budget sector of the British film industry. 

Previous Warp X releases include A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (dir: Chris Waitt) and Donkey Punch (dir: Olly Blackburn) in 2008, Hush (dir: Mark Tonderai), music festival film All Tomorrow's Parties and Bunny and the Bull (a comedy from The Mighty Boosh director Paul King) in 2009 and She, A Chinese ( from Chinese writer/director Xiaolu Guo) was released early in 2010.  Upcoming releases in 2011 are Paddy Considine's directorial feature debut Tyrannosaur and Ben Wheatley's Kill List.

Warp X is an initiative of Film4, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire and Optimum Releasing. www.warpx.co.uk

 

FILM4

Tessa Ross, heads Channel 4 Television's feature film division. Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the U.K., whether new or established. Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Martin McDonagh's In Bruges. Steve McQueen's Hunger, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky and Another Year, Ken Loach's Looking For Eric, Sam Taylor Wood's Nowhere Boy, Chris Morris' Four Lions and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.

Currently on release are Richard Ayoade's Submarine, Peter Mullan's NEDS and Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go.  Shortly due for release are Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle and Joe Cornish's directorial debut Attack The Block, which recently won the Midnight Screening Audience Award at SXSW. Miranda July's second film The Future and Paddy Considine's debut feature Tyrannosaur premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Ben Wheatley's Kill List (which played at SXSW to rapturous response) will all be released in the UK later this year. 

Film4's current productions include Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Pawel Pawlikowski's The Woman In The Fifth, Lone Scherfig's One Day, Terence Davies' Deep Blue Sea, Steve McQueen's Shame, Walter Salles' On The Road, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio and Ben Palmer's The Inbetweeners Movie. www.film4.com/productions

UK FILM COUNCIL

Since its creation in 2000 the UK Film Council has backed more than 900 films, shorts and features, which have won over 300 awards and entertained more than 200 million people around the world generating £5 for every £1 of Lottery money it has invested. 

Our Film Fund funds exciting new British films and develops new filmmakers and our Distribution and Exhibition initiatives get a wider choice of films to audiences throughout the UK. We also invest in training British talent, promoting Britain as an international filmmaking location and raising the profile of British films abroad, and we fund the British Film Institute.

British films developed and funded over the past 10 years by the UK Film Council include Tom Hooper's Oscar®-winning The King's Speech (the UK's most successful film to date with £44m million), the UK's first 3D film Streetdance 3D, Another Year, Made in Dagenham, Africa United, Bright Star, Fish Tank, In the Loop, Tamara Drewe, Bend it like Beckham, The Constant Gardener, Gosford Park, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Last King of Scotland, Man on Wire, Nowhere Boy, Red Road, St Trinian's, This is England, Touching the Void, Vera Drake and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Current and forthcoming films that we have supported include Richard Ayoade's Submarine, Rowan Joffe's Brighton Rock, Clio Barnard's The Arbor, Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, Peter Mullan's Neds, Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk about Kevin, Justin Chadwick's The First Grader, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Ayub Khan-Din's West is West, Gillian Wearing's Self-Made, John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses.  Currently in pre-production and production are Steve McQueen's Shames, James Watkins's The Woman in Black, Phyllida Llloyd's The Iron Lady, Michael Winterbottom's Trishna, Peter Strickland's  Berberian Sound Studio and Iain Softley's Trap for Cinderella.

From 1 April 2011 the UK Film Council's funding responsibilities are being transferred to the British Film Institute (BFI) and Film London.  The Film Fund will transfer to the BFI. www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

SCREEN YORKSHIRE is the regional screen agency responsible for inspiring, promoting and supporting a successful and sustainable film, television, games and interactive media sector in Yorkshire and Humber. Screen Yorkshire offers a variety of funding and support initiatives to screen media companies and individuals based in the region, supported by its two key partners, Yorkshire Forward and the UK Film Council.

Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund invests in film and television production in the region. Credits include; The Damned United, Red Riding, Tyrannosaur, A Passionate Woman, Unforgiven, Wuthering Heights, Lost in Austen, Brideshead Revisited and the BAFTA award winning This Is England. Screen Yorkshire is committed to developing regional talent and supports low budget feature slate Warp X, in partnership with the UK Film Council, Film4 and Optimum Releasing. Screen Yorkshire also runs a number of industry support networks and distributes RIFE Lottery and Grant in Aid awards on behalf of the UK Film Council.

Since the launch of its £10.2m Digital Media Content Programme in 2006, supported by Yorkshire Forward, Screen Yorkshire has attracted over £82 million inward investment to the region's economy, invested in 30 feature film and television productions, created 1086 jobs, supported 812 businesses and invested in the skills of 1637 individuals.  www.screenyorkshire.co.uk

 

GEISSENDOERFER FILM- UND FERNSEHPRODUKTION KG

Writer, Director and Producer Hans W. Geissendoerfer was born in 1941 in Augsburg and started his career as a filmmaker in the 1960s. He directed his first feature Der Fall Lena Christ in 1969. He was a very active part of the New German Cinema movement and in 1971 a group of writer-directors founded the "Filmverlag der Autoren". In the 1970, he received four federal film awards (today's "Lola") for his features Jonathan, Sternsteinhof, Die gläserene Zelle, Der Zauberberg as well as an Oscar nomination for Die gläserne Zelle and a Golden Globe nomination for Justiz. Geissendoerfer produces Germany's most popular TV series ‘Lindenstrasse', which has now been running for nearly 30 years.

Recent production credits include the Golden Palm winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Geissendoerfers latest own feature In der Welt hat ihr Angst as well as Marcus H. Rosenmüllers' Der Sommer der Gaukler. www.geissendoerfer-film.de

 

MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT

MADMAN is Australia's leading independent home entertainment and theatrical distribution and rights management company. Madman proudly showcases the best in collectable and special interest genres including Australian film, world cinema, TV kids' content and Japanese animation (anime). Other rights management activities include graphic novel distribution, online distribution and licensing for television as well as VOD, hotel and airline.

Put simply, Madman is mad for entertainment.

Madman is owned by Funtastic Limited, one of Australia's largest wholesalers of consumer products into retail outlets and an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed company. www.madman.com.au

 

THE MATCH FACTORY presents international arthouse films by acclaimed directors and promising young talents, whose films distinguish themselves through originality and style. We're building strong and long lasting relationship with both directors and producers from all over the world.

Founded in early 2006 by Michael Weber, Pandora Film's Reinhard Brundig and Karl Baumgartner, THE MATCH FACTORY already looks back to a tremendous track record: THE MATCH FACTORY's films received numerous awards on the most important film festivals. Amongst others Grbavica by Jasmila Zbanic was honoured with the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlinale 2006. The same year, Bahman Ghobadi received his second Golden Shell award in San Sebastian. In 2007, Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven was awarded with the Prix Du Scenario at the Festival de Cannes. Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman won the Golden Globe® Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award® Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. 

In 2009, we showcase further highly anticipated titles like The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos, Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin, On the Path by Jasmila Zbanic and Desert Flower by Sherry Horman, based on the world-bestselling novel.  

In 2010, Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani and The Milk of Sorrow by Claudia Llosa have been nominated for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film ®, Bal -Honey by Semih Kaplanoglu was honoured with the Golden Bear at the Berlinale and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was awarded with the Palm d'Or at Festival de Cannes.  www.the-match-factory.com

Principal photography on Berberian Sound Studio, the second feature film from writer/director Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga), will commence on 24 March 2011 in London. 

A hauntological horror Berberian Sound Studio stars award-winning actor Toby Jones (Infamous, Frost/Nixon, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets) in the lead role. An Illuminations and Warp X production, the film will be produced by Keith Griffiths (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Little Otik, Institute Benjamenta) and Mary Burke (Submarine, Bunny and The Bull). Nic Knowland Bsc (Barbarians at the Gate) is the cinematographer and editor is Academy Award winner Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire).  Broadcast will score the music for the film.

Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a shy and nondescript sound engineer from the UK is hired to mix the latest giallo film by horror maestro, Santini (Antonio Mancino) and he soon finds himself caught up in a forbidding world of bitter actors, capricious foley artists and confounding bureaucracy. The longer Gilderoy spends mixing screams and the bloodcurdling sounds of hacked vegetables, the more homesick he becomes for his garden shed studio in Dorking. His mother's letters alternate between banal gossip and an ominous hysteria, which gradually mirrors the black magic of Santini's film that Gilderoy is responsible for orchestrating. As both time and realities shift, Gilderoy finds himself lost in an otherworldly spiral of sonic and personal mayhem.

Berberian Sound Studio was developed by Illuminations Films with Lizzie Francke at the UK Film Council and Film4 and will be the ninth film to shoot from Warp X's production slate, with the support of the UK Film Council, Film4, Screen Yorkshire and Geissendoerfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion KG in association with Madman Entertainment. The film will be co-produced by veteran German producer/director Hans Geissendoerfer and will be executive produced by Film4's Katherine Butler, Warp's Robin Gutch and Screen Yorkshire's Hugo Heppell.  The Match Factory is handling international sales. 

Reading-born writer/director Peter Strickland's first feature film Katalin Varga was short entirely independently in 2006 and later went on to win many awards including a Silver Bear in Berlin and The European Film Academy's Discovery of the Year award in 2009. Katalin Varga screened at festivals throughout the world and was sold in many territories. Prior to Katalin Varga, Strickland made a number of short films and produced several records of abstract music, field recordings and spoken word.

British actor Toby Jones enjoyed critical acclaim and a Best Actor award from the London Critic's Circle for his portrayal of Truman Capote in Infamous (2005), followed by roles in The Painted Veil, Amazing Grace, Elizabeth I and The Mist.  In 2008 he portrayed Hollywood super agent Swifty Lazar in Frost/Nixon and Karl Rove in Oliver Stone's Bush biopic W.  Toby voiced Dobby in the Harry Potter movies and appeared in ‘Doctor Who' as The Dream Lord.  His forthcoming films include David Gordon Green's Your Highness, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, Mikael Hafstrom's The Rite, the role of Dr Zola in Joe Johnston's Captain America.  Most recently he has completed filming on Simon Curtis' My week with Marilyn, Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy opposite Colin Firth and the thriller Red Lights with Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver. On stage Toby starred in ‘The Play What I Wrote' in 2001, receiving an Olivier award for his performance as Arthur.  He has since appeared on stage in plays including ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour', ‘Parlour Song' and ‘The Painter'. 

Over the last 35 years producer Keith Griffiths has been bringing to the screen work by the most talented directors in Britain and worldwide including the Brothers Quay, Patrick Keiller, Chris Petit, the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and, most recently, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won him and Griffiths the Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival.  During the 70s Griffiths produced numerous films including Chris Petit's Radio On, before founding the London-based Koninck Studios and producing the Brothers Quay's first short films.  These were interspersed with award-winning documentaries on figures including Len Lye, Robert Breer, Oskar Fischinger, Andy Warhol and Jan Svankmajer, whose feature film career he helped establish with Alice (1987) and whose subsequent films Griffiths executive produced.  He also produced Patrick Keiller's features London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997) and Robinson in Ruins (2010) and the Chris Petit Iain Sinclair collaborations The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000), London Orbital (2002) and Content (2009), while continuing to work with the Brothers Quay on their breakthrough short Street of Crocodiles (1986) and their feature debut Institute Benjamenta (1995).  More recently, Griffiths co-produced six features to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006.  They were Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun), Half Moon (Bahman Ghobadi), I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang), Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho), Paraguayan Hammock (Paz Encina) and Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul).  He recently completed executive producing Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) and is currently executive producing Simon Pummell's dramatised and animated feature documentary Shock Head Soul.  In addition to his film-making activities, Keith Griffiths is a respected authority on art cinema and the avant-garde, having written numerous articles on the subject.  He won the Observer-Prudential/Arts Council Award for Film in 1994.

Producer Mary Burke works across both Warp X and Warp Films, where she has been responsible for cultivating fresh UK talent since the company's inception in 2002.  Mary was recently chosen for Variety's 2010 Producers to Watch List.  Berberian Sound Studio is Mary's fourth feature, following Richard Ayoade's critically acclaimed Submarine, Paul King's Bunny and The Bull (2009) and Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures (2008), which were both developed and produced on the Warp X slate.  Mary's second project with Chris Waitt was ‘Fur TV' - a dirty puppet comedy television series for MTV.  Originally joining Warp to work on Chris Morris' BAFTA award-winning short My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, Mary also produced the short Rubber Johnny for maverick video director Chris Cunningham in 2005 and since then has worked on a raft of projects for the Warp X and Warp Films slates including Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes and This Is England and Olly Blackburn's Donkey Punch and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Notes to Editors:

ILLUMINATIONS FILMS

Producers Simon Field and Keith Griffiths manage Illuminations Films. They executive produced the New Crowned Hope series of films which included features by Bahman Ghobadi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tsai Ming-Liang, Garin Nugroho, Paz Encina and  Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century. They also produced the latter's major multi-platform project Primitive and his Cannes Palme d'Or winning feature Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
 
Projects in development include a new Brothers Quay film Sanatorium under the Hour Glass, an adaptation of Henry James' Beast in the Jungle to be directed by Clara van Gool, written with Glyn Maxwell, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mekong Hotel. Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio is in production. They are executive producing further productions including Simon Pummell's Shock Head Soul and his installation The Sputnik Effect.

In post-production is Dave McKean's second feature film Luna. Recently completed are Jan Svankmaker's Surviving Life, Chris Petit's feature length documentary essay film, Content, Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins and Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald). www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

WARP X

Pioneering digital film studio Warp X is based in Sheffield, with a satellite office in London. Warp X shares the reputation of its sister companies Warp Records and Warp Films (Submarine, Four Lions, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, This is England, Dead Man's Shoes) for combining creative originality with commercial success. 

By harnessing cutting edge digital technology and low budget production methods Warp X makes high value movies that can reach cinema audiences across the world. These films are being managed and produced by Warp X for the Low Budget Feature Film Scheme, originally set up in 2006 by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4 to revitalise the low-budget sector of the British film industry. 

Previous Warp X releases include A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (dir: Chris Waitt) and Donkey Punch (dir: Olly Blackburn) in 2008, Hush (dir: Mark Tonderai), music festival film All Tomorrow's Parties and Bunny and the Bull (a comedy from The Mighty Boosh director Paul King) in 2009 and She, A Chinese ( from Chinese writer/director Xiaolu Guo) was released early in 2010.  Upcoming releases in 2011 are Paddy Considine's directorial feature debut Tyrannosaur and Ben Wheatley's Kill List.

Warp X is an initiative of Film4, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire and Optimum Releasing. www.warpx.co.uk

 

FILM4

Tessa Ross, heads Channel 4 Television's feature film division. Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the U.K., whether new or established. Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Martin McDonagh's In Bruges. Steve McQueen's Hunger, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky and Another Year, Ken Loach's Looking For Eric, Sam Taylor Wood's Nowhere Boy, Chris Morris' Four Lions and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.

Currently on release are Richard Ayoade's Submarine, Peter Mullan's NEDS and Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go.  Shortly due for release are Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle and Joe Cornish's directorial debut Attack The Block, which recently won the Midnight Screening Audience Award at SXSW. Miranda July's second film The Future and Paddy Considine's debut feature Tyrannosaur premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Ben Wheatley's Kill List (which played at SXSW to rapturous response) will all be released in the UK later this year. 

Film4's current productions include Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Pawel Pawlikowski's The Woman In The Fifth, Lone Scherfig's One Day, Terence Davies' Deep Blue Sea, Steve McQueen's Shame, Walter Salles' On The Road, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio and Ben Palmer's The Inbetweeners Movie. www.film4.com/productions

UK FILM COUNCIL

Since its creation in 2000 the UK Film Council has backed more than 900 films, shorts and features, which have won over 300 awards and entertained more than 200 million people around the world generating £5 for every £1 of Lottery money it has invested. 

Our Film Fund funds exciting new British films and develops new filmmakers and our Distribution and Exhibition initiatives get a wider choice of films to audiences throughout the UK. We also invest in training British talent, promoting Britain as an international filmmaking location and raising the profile of British films abroad, and we fund the British Film Institute.

British films developed and funded over the past 10 years by the UK Film Council include Tom Hooper's Oscar®-winning The King's Speech (the UK's most successful film to date with £44m million), the UK's first 3D film Streetdance 3D, Another Year, Made in Dagenham, Africa United, Bright Star, Fish Tank, In the Loop, Tamara Drewe, Bend it like Beckham, The Constant Gardener, Gosford Park, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Last King of Scotland, Man on Wire, Nowhere Boy, Red Road, St Trinian's, This is England, Touching the Void, Vera Drake and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Current and forthcoming films that we have supported include Richard Ayoade's Submarine, Rowan Joffe's Brighton Rock, Clio Barnard's The Arbor, Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, Peter Mullan's Neds, Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk about Kevin, Justin Chadwick's The First Grader, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Ayub Khan-Din's West is West, Gillian Wearing's Self-Made, John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses.  Currently in pre-production and production are Steve McQueen's Shames, James Watkins's The Woman in Black, Phyllida Llloyd's The Iron Lady, Michael Winterbottom's Trishna, Peter Strickland's  Berberian Sound Studio and Iain Softley's Trap for Cinderella.

From 1 April 2011 the UK Film Council's funding responsibilities are being transferred to the British Film Institute (BFI) and Film London.  The Film Fund will transfer to the BFI. www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

SCREEN YORKSHIRE is the regional screen agency responsible for inspiring, promoting and supporting a successful and sustainable film, television, games and interactive media sector in Yorkshire and Humber. Screen Yorkshire offers a variety of funding and support initiatives to screen media companies and individuals based in the region, supported by its two key partners, Yorkshire Forward and the UK Film Council.

Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund invests in film and television production in the region. Credits include; The Damned United, Red Riding, Tyrannosaur, A Passionate Woman, Unforgiven, Wuthering Heights, Lost in Austen, Brideshead Revisited and the BAFTA award winning This Is England. Screen Yorkshire is committed to developing regional talent and supports low budget feature slate Warp X, in partnership with the UK Film Council, Film4 and Optimum Releasing. Screen Yorkshire also runs a number of industry support networks and distributes RIFE Lottery and Grant in Aid awards on behalf of the UK Film Council.

Since the launch of its £10.2m Digital Media Content Programme in 2006, supported by Yorkshire Forward, Screen Yorkshire has attracted over £82 million inward investment to the region's economy, invested in 30 feature film and television productions, created 1086 jobs, supported 812 businesses and invested in the skills of 1637 individuals.  www.screenyorkshire.co.uk

 

GEISSENDOERFER FILM- UND FERNSEHPRODUKTION KG

Writer, Director and Producer Hans W. Geissendoerfer was born in 1941 in Augsburg and started his career as a filmmaker in the 1960s. He directed his first feature Der Fall Lena Christ in 1969. He was a very active part of the New German Cinema movement and in 1971 a group of writer-directors founded the "Filmverlag der Autoren". In the 1970, he received four federal film awards (today's "Lola") for his features Jonathan, Sternsteinhof, Die gläserene Zelle, Der Zauberberg as well as an Oscar nomination for Die gläserne Zelle and a Golden Globe nomination for Justiz. Geissendoerfer produces Germany's most popular TV series ‘Lindenstrasse', which has now been running for nearly 30 years.

Recent production credits include the Golden Palm winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Geissendoerfers latest own feature In der Welt hat ihr Angst as well as Marcus H. Rosenmüllers' Der Sommer der Gaukler. www.geissendoerfer-film.de

 

MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT

MADMAN is Australia's leading independent home entertainment and theatrical distribution and rights management company. Madman proudly showcases the best in collectable and special interest genres including Australian film, world cinema, TV kids' content and Japanese animation (anime). Other rights management activities include graphic novel distribution, online distribution and licensing for television as well as VOD, hotel and airline.

Put simply, Madman is mad for entertainment.

Madman is owned by Funtastic Limited, one of Australia's largest wholesalers of consumer products into retail outlets and an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed company. www.madman.com.au

 

THE MATCH FACTORY presents international arthouse films by acclaimed directors and promising young talents, whose films distinguish themselves through originality and style. We're building strong and long lasting relationship with both directors and producers from all over the world.

Founded in early 2006 by Michael Weber, Pandora Film's Reinhard Brundig and Karl Baumgartner, THE MATCH FACTORY already looks back to a tremendous track record: THE MATCH FACTORY's films received numerous awards on the most important film festivals. Amongst others Grbavica by Jasmila Zbanic was honoured with the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlinale 2006. The same year, Bahman Ghobadi received his second Golden Shell award in San Sebastian. In 2007, Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven was awarded with the Prix Du Scenario at the Festival de Cannes. Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman won the Golden Globe® Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award® Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. 

In 2009, we showcase further highly anticipated titles like The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos, Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin, On the Path by Jasmila Zbanic and Desert Flower by Sherry Horman, based on the world-bestselling novel.  

In 2010, Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani and The Milk of Sorrow by Claudia Llosa have been nominated for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film ®, Bal -Honey by Semih Kaplanoglu was honoured with the Golden Bear at the Berlinale and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was awarded with the Palm d'Or at Festival de Cannes.  www.the-match-factory.com

Principal photography on Berberian Sound Studio, the second feature film from writer/director Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga), will commence on 24 March 2011 in London. 

A hauntological horror Berberian Sound Studio stars award-winning actor Toby Jones (Infamous, Frost/Nixon, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets) in the lead role. An Illuminations and Warp X production, the film will be produced by Keith Griffiths (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Little Otik, Institute Benjamenta) and Mary Burke (Submarine, Bunny and The Bull). Nic Knowland Bsc (Barbarians at the Gate) is the cinematographer and editor is Academy Award winner Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire).  Broadcast will score the music for the film.

Berberian Sound Studio is one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production studios in Italy. Only the most sordid horror films have their sound processed and sharpened in this studio. Gilderoy (Toby Jones), a shy and nondescript sound engineer from the UK is hired to mix the latest giallo film by horror maestro, Santini (Antonio Mancino) and he soon finds himself caught up in a forbidding world of bitter actors, capricious foley artists and confounding bureaucracy. The longer Gilderoy spends mixing screams and the bloodcurdling sounds of hacked vegetables, the more homesick he becomes for his garden shed studio in Dorking. His mother's letters alternate between banal gossip and an ominous hysteria, which gradually mirrors the black magic of Santini's film that Gilderoy is responsible for orchestrating. As both time and realities shift, Gilderoy finds himself lost in an otherworldly spiral of sonic and personal mayhem.

Berberian Sound Studio was developed by Illuminations Films with Lizzie Francke at the UK Film Council and Film4 and will be the ninth film to shoot from Warp X's production slate, with the support of the UK Film Council, Film4, Screen Yorkshire and Geissendoerfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion KG in association with Madman Entertainment. The film will be co-produced by veteran German producer/director Hans Geissendoerfer and will be executive produced by Film4's Katherine Butler, Warp's Robin Gutch and Screen Yorkshire's Hugo Heppell.  The Match Factory is handling international sales. 

Reading-born writer/director Peter Strickland's first feature film Katalin Varga was short entirely independently in 2006 and later went on to win many awards including a Silver Bear in Berlin and The European Film Academy's Discovery of the Year award in 2009. Katalin Varga screened at festivals throughout the world and was sold in many territories. Prior to Katalin Varga, Strickland made a number of short films and produced several records of abstract music, field recordings and spoken word.

British actor Toby Jones enjoyed critical acclaim and a Best Actor award from the London Critic's Circle for his portrayal of Truman Capote in Infamous (2005), followed by roles in The Painted Veil, Amazing Grace, Elizabeth I and The Mist.  In 2008 he portrayed Hollywood super agent Swifty Lazar in Frost/Nixon and Karl Rove in Oliver Stone's Bush biopic W.  Toby voiced Dobby in the Harry Potter movies and appeared in ‘Doctor Who' as The Dream Lord.  His forthcoming films include David Gordon Green's Your Highness, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, Mikael Hafstrom's The Rite, the role of Dr Zola in Joe Johnston's Captain America.  Most recently he has completed filming on Simon Curtis' My week with Marilyn, Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy opposite Colin Firth and the thriller Red Lights with Cillian Murphy and Sigourney Weaver. On stage Toby starred in ‘The Play What I Wrote' in 2001, receiving an Olivier award for his performance as Arthur.  He has since appeared on stage in plays including ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour', ‘Parlour Song' and ‘The Painter'. 

Over the last 35 years producer Keith Griffiths has been bringing to the screen work by the most talented directors in Britain and worldwide including the Brothers Quay, Patrick Keiller, Chris Petit, the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and, most recently, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won him and Griffiths the Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival.  During the 70s Griffiths produced numerous films including Chris Petit's Radio On, before founding the London-based Koninck Studios and producing the Brothers Quay's first short films.  These were interspersed with award-winning documentaries on figures including Len Lye, Robert Breer, Oskar Fischinger, Andy Warhol and Jan Svankmajer, whose feature film career he helped establish with Alice (1987) and whose subsequent films Griffiths executive produced.  He also produced Patrick Keiller's features London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997) and Robinson in Ruins (2010) and the Chris Petit Iain Sinclair collaborations The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000), London Orbital (2002) and Content (2009), while continuing to work with the Brothers Quay on their breakthrough short Street of Crocodiles (1986) and their feature debut Institute Benjamenta (1995).  More recently, Griffiths co-produced six features to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006.  They were Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun), Half Moon (Bahman Ghobadi), I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang), Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho), Paraguayan Hammock (Paz Encina) and Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul).  He recently completed executive producing Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) and is currently executive producing Simon Pummell's dramatised and animated feature documentary Shock Head Soul.  In addition to his film-making activities, Keith Griffiths is a respected authority on art cinema and the avant-garde, having written numerous articles on the subject.  He won the Observer-Prudential/Arts Council Award for Film in 1994.

Producer Mary Burke works across both Warp X and Warp Films, where she has been responsible for cultivating fresh UK talent since the company's inception in 2002.  Mary was recently chosen for Variety's 2010 Producers to Watch List.  Berberian Sound Studio is Mary's fourth feature, following Richard Ayoade's critically acclaimed Submarine, Paul King's Bunny and The Bull (2009) and Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures (2008), which were both developed and produced on the Warp X slate.  Mary's second project with Chris Waitt was ‘Fur TV' - a dirty puppet comedy television series for MTV.  Originally joining Warp to work on Chris Morris' BAFTA award-winning short My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, Mary also produced the short Rubber Johnny for maverick video director Chris Cunningham in 2005 and since then has worked on a raft of projects for the Warp X and Warp Films slates including Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes and This Is England and Olly Blackburn's Donkey Punch and All Tomorrow's Parties.

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ILLUMINATIONS FILMS

Producers Simon Field and Keith Griffiths manage Illuminations Films. They executive produced the New Crowned Hope series of films which included features by Bahman Ghobadi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tsai Ming-Liang, Garin Nugroho, Paz Encina and  Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century. They also produced the latter's major multi-platform project Primitive and his Cannes Palme d'Or winning feature Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
 
Projects in development include a new Brothers Quay film Sanatorium under the Hour Glass, an adaptation of Henry James' Beast in the Jungle to be directed by Clara van Gool, written with Glyn Maxwell, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mekong Hotel. Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio is in production. They are executive producing further productions including Simon Pummell's Shock Head Soul and his installation The Sputnik Effect.

In post-production is Dave McKean's second feature film Luna. Recently completed are Jan Svankmaker's Surviving Life, Chris Petit's feature length documentary essay film, Content, Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins and Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald). www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

WARP X

Pioneering digital film studio Warp X is based in Sheffield, with a satellite office in London. Warp X shares the reputation of its sister companies Warp Records and Warp Films (Submarine, Four Lions, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, This is England, Dead Man's Shoes) for combining creative originality with commercial success. 

By harnessing cutting edge digital technology and low budget production methods Warp X makes high value movies that can reach cinema audiences across the world. These films are being managed and produced by Warp X for the Low Budget Feature Film Scheme, originally set up in 2006 by the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and Film4 to revitalise the low-budget sector of the British film industry. 

Previous Warp X releases include A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (dir: Chris Waitt) and Donkey Punch (dir: Olly Blackburn) in 2008, Hush (dir: Mark Tonderai), music festival film All Tomorrow's Parties and Bunny and the Bull (a comedy from The Mighty Boosh director Paul King) in 2009 and She, A Chinese ( from Chinese writer/director Xiaolu Guo) was released early in 2010.  Upcoming releases in 2011 are Paddy Considine's directorial feature debut Tyrannosaur and Ben Wheatley's Kill List.

Warp X is an initiative of Film4, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire and Optimum Releasing. www.warpx.co.uk

 

FILM4

Tessa Ross, heads Channel 4 Television's feature film division. Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the U.K., whether new or established. Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Martin McDonagh's In Bruges. Steve McQueen's Hunger, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky and Another Year, Ken Loach's Looking For Eric, Sam Taylor Wood's Nowhere Boy, Chris Morris' Four Lions and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.

Currently on release are Richard Ayoade's Submarine, Peter Mullan's NEDS and Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go.  Shortly due for release are Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle and Joe Cornish's directorial debut Attack The Block, which recently won the Midnight Screening Audience Award at SXSW. Miranda July's second film The Future and Paddy Considine's debut feature Tyrannosaur premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Ben Wheatley's Kill List (which played at SXSW to rapturous response) will all be released in the UK later this year. 

Film4's current productions include Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Pawel Pawlikowski's The Woman In The Fifth, Lone Scherfig's One Day, Terence Davies' Deep Blue Sea, Steve McQueen's Shame, Walter Salles' On The Road, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio and Ben Palmer's The Inbetweeners Movie. www.film4.com/productions

UK FILM COUNCIL

Since its creation in 2000 the UK Film Council has backed more than 900 films, shorts and features, which have won over 300 awards and entertained more than 200 million people around the world generating £5 for every £1 of Lottery money it has invested. 

Our Film Fund funds exciting new British films and develops new filmmakers and our Distribution and Exhibition initiatives get a wider choice of films to audiences throughout the UK. We also invest in training British talent, promoting Britain as an international filmmaking location and raising the profile of British films abroad, and we fund the British Film Institute.

British films developed and funded over the past 10 years by the UK Film Council include Tom Hooper's Oscar®-winning The King's Speech (the UK's most successful film to date with £44m million), the UK's first 3D film Streetdance 3D, Another Year, Made in Dagenham, Africa United, Bright Star, Fish Tank, In the Loop, Tamara Drewe, Bend it like Beckham, The Constant Gardener, Gosford Park, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Last King of Scotland, Man on Wire, Nowhere Boy, Red Road, St Trinian's, This is England, Touching the Void, Vera Drake and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Current and forthcoming films that we have supported include Richard Ayoade's Submarine, Rowan Joffe's Brighton Rock, Clio Barnard's The Arbor, Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, Peter Mullan's Neds, Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk about Kevin, Justin Chadwick's The First Grader, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Ayub Khan-Din's West is West, Gillian Wearing's Self-Made, John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses.  Currently in pre-production and production are Steve McQueen's Shames, James Watkins's The Woman in Black, Phyllida Llloyd's The Iron Lady, Michael Winterbottom's Trishna, Peter Strickland's  Berberian Sound Studio and Iain Softley's Trap for Cinderella.

From 1 April 2011 the UK Film Council's funding responsibilities are being transferred to the British Film Institute (BFI) and Film London.  The Film Fund will transfer to the BFI. www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

SCREEN YORKSHIRE is the regional screen agency responsible for inspiring, promoting and supporting a successful and sustainable film, television, games and interactive media sector in Yorkshire and Humber. Screen Yorkshire offers a variety of funding and support initiatives to screen media companies and individuals based in the region, supported by its two key partners, Yorkshire Forward and the UK Film Council.

Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund invests in film and television production in the region. Credits include; The Damned United, Red Riding, Tyrannosaur, A Passionate Woman, Unforgiven, Wuthering Heights, Lost in Austen, Brideshead Revisited and the BAFTA award winning This Is England. Screen Yorkshire is committed to developing regional talent and supports low budget feature slate Warp X, in partnership with the UK Film Council, Film4 and Optimum Releasing. Screen Yorkshire also runs a number of industry support networks and distributes RIFE Lottery and Grant in Aid awards on behalf of the UK Film Council.

Since the launch of its £10.2m Digital Media Content Programme in 2006, supported by Yorkshire Forward, Screen Yorkshire has attracted over £82 million inward investment to the region's economy, invested in 30 feature film and television productions, created 1086 jobs, supported 812 businesses and invested in the skills of 1637 individuals.  www.screenyorkshire.co.uk

 

GEISSENDOERFER FILM- UND FERNSEHPRODUKTION KG

Writer, Director and Producer Hans W. Geissendoerfer was born in 1941 in Augsburg and started his career as a filmmaker in the 1960s. He directed his first feature Der Fall Lena Christ in 1969. He was a very active part of the New German Cinema movement and in 1971 a group of writer-directors founded the "Filmverlag der Autoren". In the 1970, he received four federal film awards (today's "Lola") for his features Jonathan, Sternsteinhof, Die gläserene Zelle, Der Zauberberg as well as an Oscar nomination for Die gläserne Zelle and a Golden Globe nomination for Justiz. Geissendoerfer produces Germany's most popular TV series ‘Lindenstrasse', which has now been running for nearly 30 years.

Recent production credits include the Golden Palm winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Geissendoerfers latest own feature In der Welt hat ihr Angst as well as Marcus H. Rosenmüllers' Der Sommer der Gaukler. www.geissendoerfer-film.de

 

MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT

MADMAN is Australia's leading independent home entertainment and theatrical distribution and rights management company. Madman proudly showcases the best in collectable and special interest genres including Australian film, world cinema, TV kids' content and Japanese animation (anime). Other rights management activities include graphic novel distribution, online distribution and licensing for television as well as VOD, hotel and airline.

Put simply, Madman is mad for entertainment.

Madman is owned by Funtastic Limited, one of Australia's largest wholesalers of consumer products into retail outlets and an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed company. www.madman.com.au

 

THE MATCH FACTORY presents international arthouse films by acclaimed directors and promising young talents, whose films distinguish themselves through originality and style. We're building strong and long lasting relationship with both directors and producers from all over the world.

Founded in early 2006 by Michael Weber, Pandora Film's Reinhard Brundig and Karl Baumgartner, THE MATCH FACTORY already looks back to a tremendous track record: THE MATCH FACTORY's films received numerous awards on the most important film festivals. Amongst others Grbavica by Jasmila Zbanic was honoured with the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlinale 2006. The same year, Bahman Ghobadi received his second Golden Shell award in San Sebastian. In 2007, Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven was awarded with the Prix Du Scenario at the Festival de Cannes. Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman won the Golden Globe® Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award® Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. 

In 2009, we showcase further highly anticipated titles like The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos, Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin, On the Path by Jasmila Zbanic and Desert Flower by Sherry Horman, based on the world-bestselling novel.  

In 2010, Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani and The Milk of Sorrow by Claudia Llosa have been nominated for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film ®, Bal -Honey by Semih Kaplanoglu was honoured with the Golden Bear at the Berlinale and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was awarded with the Palm d'Or at Festival de Cannes.  www.the-match-factory.com