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BRITISH FILMS IN OFFICIAL SELECTION AT TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013 GRAVITY MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM RUSH THE RAILWAY MAN

GALA PRESENTATIONS of South Africa. MANDELA is the thrilling story of an THE RAILWAY MAN ordinary man who rose to the challenge of his times and triumphed - an intimate portrait of the making of Director Jonathan Teplitzky a modern icon. Producers Andy Paterson, Chris Brown & Bill Curbishley GRAVITY Frank Cottrell Boyce & Andy Paterson Int. Sales Agent Pathé International Cast , , , Director Alfonso Cuarón E Sophie Glover ([email protected]) Stellan Skarsgård & Hiroyuki Sanada Producers Alfonso Cuarón & David Heyman Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón Based on a remarkable autobiography, THE RAILWAY MAN Cast Sandra Bullock & RUSH tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war George Clooney and Sandra Bullock star in this highly Director at a Japanese labour camp during World War II. Decades anticipated 3D space thriller from acclaimed director Alfonso Producers Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, later, Lomax discovers that the Japanese interpreter he Cuarón (Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá También) , & Ron Howard holds responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and Screenplay Peter Morgan Int. Sales Agent Warner Bros Pictures sets out to confront him, and his haunting past. Directed Cast , Daniel Brühl, & by Jonathan Teplitzky, and starring Academy Award-winner Natalie Dormer Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, and Academy Award-winner MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Ron Howard directs this pulse-pounding true story about Nicole Kidman, the film is a powerful tale of survival, love and redemption. Director hard-driving Formula 1 rivals (Chris Hemsworth) Producers Anant Singh & David Thompson and (Daniel Brühl), whose clashes both on and off Int. Sales Agent Lionsgate Screenplay William Nicholson the racetrack made the 1976 season one of the most thrilling E [email protected] Cast & and memorable in the sport’s history. This epic motion picture spans Mandela’s extraordinary Int. Sales Agent Exclusive Media life, from his childhood in a rural village through to his E Gabrielle Stewart ([email protected]) inauguration as the first democratically elected President ALL IS BY MY SIDE BELLE DOM HEMINGWAY

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Cast Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid, Sarah DOM HEMINGWAY Gadon, , , , , Matthew Goode & Director Richard Shepard Producers ALL IS BY MY SIDE BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Belle, a mixed race Screenplay Richard Shepard girl raised as an aristocratic lady in at the end of the Cast Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Demian Bichir & Director 18th century. Half black and half white, Dido is the result of a Producers Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta, Danny Bramson, union between British naval officer, Sir Admiral John Lindsay, Jude Law plays Dom Hemingway, a larger-than-life Brandon Freeman, Anthony Burns, Tristen Orpen Lynch & and an African slave woman. When Dido’s mother dies, safecracker with a loose fuse, funny, profane and dangerous. Nigel Thomas making her an orphan at the age of six, her father comes to Back on the streets of after 12 years in prison, it’s Screenplay John Ridley claim her before returning to his family home at Kenwood time to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut. Cast Andre Benjamin, Imogen Poots & Hayley Atwell House in Hampstead. There he beseeches his uncle, the Earl Travelling with his devoted best friend Dickie (Richard E. of Mansfield, to take the child into his care and to raise her In 1966, an unknown back-up guitarist called Jimmy James Grant), Dom visits his crime boss Mr Fontaine (Demian Bichir) alongside her cousin, Elizabeth, with equality and privilege in left for London, England. Twelve months later in the South of France to claim his reward. But Dom’s drink a manner befitting her aristocratic blood line. he returned - as Jimi Hendrix. ALL IS BY MY SIDE is the true and drug-fuelled ego decides that what he’s lost can’t be story of how the man became the legend, and the people Prevented from marrying because of the colour of her skin, replaced. One car accident and a femme fatale later, Dom who loved and inspired him. Dido must navigate her way past barriers of race and class. realises that his priority must be to reconnect with his long- lost daughter Evelyn (Emilia Clarke). Int. Sales Agent Content Media Although she has the affection of a loving family, society will place many constraints upon her which she must fight E Harry White ([email protected]) But Dom does what Dom does best. He screws things up to overcome if she is to discover the path to true love and for everyone… self-acceptance. BELLE Int. Sales Agent HanWay Films Int. Sales Agent Bankside Films Hyatt Regency Toronto, 370 King Street West Director UK Film Centre, 9th floor Hyatt Regency, Toronto T +1 416 343 1234 Producer Damian Jones T +44 7957 605 915 Stephen Kelliher E [email protected] Screenplay Misan Sagay (Fox Searchlight is the worldwide distributor)

THE DOUBLE HALF OF A YELLOW SUN HOW I LIVE NOW THE INVISIBLE WOMAN

THE DOUBLE Based on the best-selling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi THE INVISIBLE WOMAN Adichie, HALF OF A YELLOW SUN is a sweeping love story Director: Richard Ayoade weaving together the lives of four people swept up in the Director Producers: Amina Dasmal & Robin C Fox turbulence of war. Producers Stewart Mackinnon, Gabrielle Tana, Christian Screenplay: Richard Ayoade & Avi Korine Baute & Carolyn Marks Blackwood Cast: , & Noah Taylor Int. Sales Agent Metro International Screenplay E Natalie Brenner ([email protected]) Cast Ralph Fiennes, , Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence & Tom Hollander in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He HOW I LIVE NOW Nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James Director Kevin Macdonald and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with , with whom she discovered is both Simon’s exact physical double and his opposite - Producers Charles Steel, Alisdair Flind, John Battsek & an exciting but fragile complicity. confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon’s Andrew Ruhemann Screenplay Jeremy Brock, Tony Grisoni & Penelope Skinner horror, James slowly starts taking over his life. It’s a Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated Cast , George MacKay & nightmare from which he’s unable to awake. within his success – falls for Nelly, one of – all Daisy, a teenage New Yorker, is sent to England one summer actresses. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant Int. Sales Agent Protagonist Pictures amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent in his E [email protected] to stay with the cousins she has never met. Initially resentful, she soon immerses herself in a dreamy, pastoral idyll as she work, or on stage, than in life. The nature of performance falls madly in love. But this perfect summer is blown apart and the life of the theatre are an important part of this film, particularly in regards to the perception of women in theatre HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by the sudden outbreak of a war none of them understand and the ambivalence of their position. Nelly, in some ways a - the family is separated and Daisy is forced to embark on a muse for Dickens, becomes the focus of his passion. Director Biyi Bandele terrifying journey to be reunited with the boy she loves. Producer: Andrea Calderwood & Gail Egan For both of them, secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life Screenplay Biyi Bandele, based on the novel by Int. Sales Agent Protagonist Pictures of “invisibility”. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie E [email protected] Cast Thandie Newton, , Anika Noni Rose Int. Sales Agent WestEnd Films & E Eve Schoukroun ([email protected]) E Maya Emsellem ([email protected]) LE WEEK-END ONE CHANCE PHILOMENA

LE WEEK-END just that. This is the story of his journey. Int. Sales Agent HanWay Films Hyatt Regency Toronto, 370 King Street West Director From the director of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, ONE T +1 416 343 1234 Producer Kevin Loader CHANCE is the remarkable and inspirational true story E [email protected] Screenplay of , a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an Cast , & Jeff Goldblum amateur opera singer by night. Paul became an instant YouTube phenomenon after being chosen by PHILOMENA A married couple (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) for ‘Britain’s Got .’ Wowing audiences worldwide with Director revisit to revitalise their marriage, and run into an old his phenomenal voice, Paul went on to win ‘Britain’s Got Producers , Gabrielle Tana & Tracey Seaward friend (Jeff Goldblum) who acts as a catalyst for things to Talent’ and the hearts of millions. come. LE WEEK-END is a beautifully observed, funny and Screenplay & Steve Coogan poignant story about the nature of love and commitment Int. Sales Agent Cast , Steve Coogan & where husband and wife yearn to recapture their youthful PHILOMENA is the true story of one mother’s search for fearlessness, lack of responsibility and idealism. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE her lost son. Falling pregnant as a teenager in in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked Int. Sales Agent after as a “fallen woman”. When her baby was only a toddler, E Sharon Lee ([email protected]) Director Screenplay Jim Jarmusch he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Producers Jeremy Thomas & Reinhard Brundig Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him in ONE CHANCE Cast , , Mia Wasikowska vain. Then she met , a world-weary political & journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story. Director Together they set off for America on that would Producers Mike Menchel, Simon Cowell, Brad Weston An age-old romance reignites when Eve (Tilda Swinton), not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son, & Kris Thykier an otherworldly beauty, travels from Tangiers to be with but also create an unexpectedly close bond between them. Screenplay her Adam (Tom Hiddleston), an underground cult musician Int. Sales Agent Pathé International Cast , Alexandra Roach, , mired in the fading days of Detroit. But their union is E Sophie Glover ([email protected]) Colm Meaney & threatened by the arrival of Ava (Mia Wasikowska), Eve’s younger “sister”, who reawakens their destructive appetites. Most people only dream about becoming a famous superstar, but against all odds one man from did SOUTHCLIFFE SUNSHINE ON LEITH UNDER THE SKIN

SOUTHCLIFFE knows, Eric learns that shame and rage can be overcome. UNDER THE SKIN But there are forces at work determined to deny him his Director Sean Durkin identity, and his very life. Director Jonathan Glazer Producers Peter Carlton & Derrin Schlesinger Producer James Wilson & Nick Wechsler Screenplay Tony Grisoni Int. Sales Agent Sales Screenplay Walter Campbell & Jonathan Glazer Cast , Sean Harris, Shirley Henderson, Anatol E Karina Gechtman-Harroch Cast Yusef & ([email protected]) UNDER THE SKIN is the story of an alien in human form. Part A sudden inexplicable spate of shootings rips through the , part science fiction, part real, it’s a film about market town of Southcliffe. The lives of those left behind SUNSHINE ON LEITH seeing our world through alien eyes. are torn apart. In this haunting four part drama a journalist reporting on the tragedy finds himself back in the small Director Int. Sales Agent FilmNation town he himself grew up in, looking for answers from the Producers Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, Arabella Page E Tara Erer ([email protected]) shattered community whilst trying to reconcile dark events Croft & Kieran Parker from his own past. Exec Producers Nigel Green & Trevor Green Screenplay Stephen Greenhorn Int. Sales Agent BBC Worldwide Cast , Jane Horrocks, George MacKay, Kevin E Michael L. Smith (Michael.L.Smith@.com) Guthrie, Antonia Thomas, Freya Mavor & Paul Brannigan

SUNSHINE ON LEITH is the tale of one tight-knit family, STARRED UP and the three couples bound to it, as they experience the joys and heartache that punctuate all relationships. And Director David Mackenzie they do it all while singing to the euphoric music of The Producer Proclaimers. Dexter Fletcher directs a jubilant, heartfelt Screenplay Jonathan Asser musical about the power of home, the hearth, family and Cast Jack O’Connell, & love, which has been adapted from the acclaimed stage musical by Stephen Greenhorn. A violent young man is thrust into the dark world of an adult prison. As he struggles to assert himself amid its competing Int. Sales Agent International systems, and against the presence of a father he scarcely E Emil Elmer ([email protected]) THE SELFISH GIANT A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF DOCS THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE Director Sarah McCarthy Producers Grace Hughes-Hallett & Sarah McCarthy THE SELFISH GIANT A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM Writer Sarah McCarthy

Director Clio Barnard Director Mark Cousins An eleven year old Russian girl learns to love her adoptive Producer Tracy O’Riordan Producers Adam Dawtrey & Mary Bell American family through a scientific programme. Screenplay Clio Barnard Cast Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas & Sean Gilder A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM is the world’s first movie Int. Sales Agent Roco Films about kids in global cinema. A passionate, poetic portrait E Annie Roney ([email protected]) THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary fable about 13 year of the adventures of childhood – it is surrealism, loneliness, old Arbor and his best friend Swifty. Excluded from school fun, destructiveness and vitality – as seen through 53 great and outsiders in their own neighbourhood, the two boys films from 25 countries. The critical and commercial hits meet Kitten, a local scrap dealer – the Selfish Giant. They such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Moonrise Kingdom to begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. well-known classics and 400 Blows, it also Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates features dozens of rarely seen masterpieces. Kitten – keen to impress him and make some . However, Kitten favours Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM is an eye opener, a and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor landmark film and a of both childhood and becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, becoming the movies more like Kitten. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event, Int. Sales Agent HanWay Select, HanWay Films which transforms them all. Hyatt Regency, Toronto, 370 King Street West Int. Sales Agent Protagonist Pictures E Fabien Westerhoff ([email protected]) E [email protected] FOR NO GOOD REASON INREALLIFE

MAVERICKS SECTION Int. Sales Agent Independent Film Sales WAVELENGTHS E Karina Gechtman-Harroch ([email protected] FOR NO GOOD REASON A FIELD IN ENGLAND INREALLIFE Director Charlie Paul Director Producer Lucy Paul Director Beeban Kidron Producers Claire Jones & Andy Starke Writer Charlie Paul Producer Freya Sampson & Beeban Kidron Screenplay Amy Jump Contributors , & Patrick Godfrey Contributors Jimmy Wales, Sherry Turkle & Julian Assange Cast Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando, Julian Barratt & Michael Smiley Johnny Depp pays a call on his friend and hero Ralph Most of us remember a time before the internet, there’s now Steadman and we take off on a high-spirited, raging and a generation of teens who’ve never known social interaction England: The English Civil War. A small group of deserters kaleidoscopic journey discovering the life and works of one before Facebook. InRealLife is an in-depth examination flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. A FIELD of the most distinctive radical artists of the last 50 years. of the effects of the internet on the social lives of teens, IN ENGLAND is a psychedelic trip into magic and madness Steadman rose to fame in the early 70’s when his satirical casting a spotlight on how corporations influence the online from Ben Wheatley – award-winning director of Down drawings began to challenge establishments on both sides lives of our children for profit. Terrace, and Sightseers. of the Atlantic. He became known as the chief chronicler of the Gonzo movement through his long term collaboration Int. Sales Agent Dogwoof Int. Sales Agent Protagonist Pictures with Hunter S. Thompson and his work on Thompson’s clas- UK Film Centre, 9th floor Hyatt Regency, Toronto E [email protected] sic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has enshrined him as the E Ana Vicente ([email protected]) pre-eminent counter culture artist. Featuring appearances from Terry Gilliam, William Burroughs, Richard E Grant and intimate footage of Thompson over a soundtrack by the likes of Slash, FOR NO GOOD REASON is a riot of stories, anima- tions and images compiled by director Charlie Paul over the last 15 years.