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UK FILM CENTRE, STAND 1D - A17, FILMART, HALL 1, HONG KONG CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, 1 HARBOUR ROAD, WANCHAI, HONG KONG
VISIT: WEAREUKFILM.COM UK FILM CENTRE, STAND 1D - A17, FILMART, HALL 1, HONG KONG CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE, 1 HARBOUR ROAD, WANCHAI, HONG KONG UK-based businesses to ensure their success catalogue of award-winning feature films We’re looking to make and represent high productions by Woody Allen, Takeshi Kitano, focusing on the distribution of genre feature UK FILM in international markets, and encourage the and documentaries. profile, commercial feature films with great Bernardo Bertolucci, Wim Wenders, Terry films. Inspired by the idea that cinema has ORGANISATIONS best overseas companies to look to the UK artistic and theatrical ambition. Gilliam, David Cronenberg, Peter Greenaway, somehow a dark little corner from which as their global partner of choice. We have built up a fast growing and Jean Luc Godard, David Mamet, Milos Forman, new ideas emerge, Darkland Distribution has BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE UKTI has a customer commitment to helping recognisable brand at all major motion The latest titles on our slate include two Stephen Frears, Phillip Noyce and Nagisa and will continue to explore the innovative its UK and international customers by picture and television festivals and markets highly anticipated documentaries which also Oshima. visions of upcoming directors unafraid to Attending: providing a range of services, to a high worldwide, including Cannes, AFM, EFM, premiered in Sundance - Academy Award® For more information please visit: mix pure entertainment and strong themes. Vivien Muller-Rommel, standard and improve customer service by Berlinale, The Sundance Film Festival, winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary www.hanwayfilms.com Distribution and International Coordinator listening to customer feedback. Toronto International Film Festival, LUFF, “Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Parkland has several films in development, Email: [email protected] We also have a co-ordination role across MIPCOM and MIPTV. Belief”, and Rodney Ascher’s acclaimed JINGA FILMS pre-production and production and is the BFI Film Fund Assistant, government to establish a more systematic horror documentary “The Nightmare”, the appointed International Sales Agent for a Attending: Email: [email protected] approach to relationships with companies Carnaby International Sales and Distribution Sundance premiere thriller “Reversal”; the slate of films that won’t exceed a reasonable which are the most economically significant focuses on international sales of film, new action/thriller “Pandemic” starring Kevin Law, Sales & Acquisitions Manager number each year such that each film The BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for the investors and exporters. television and film libraries. The company is Rachel Nichols, Mekhi Phifer, and Missi Pyle, Email: [email protected] receives the attention it deserves. cultural, creative and economic aspects of For further information please visit: based in the heart of Soho London. and Alfie Allen; Alex Winter’s documentary film, and through the BFI Film Fund invests JINGA FILMS aim is to satisfy producers by www.ukti.gov.uk/home For further information please visit: “Deep Web”; the intense horror film “The London based producer John Cairns is the Lottery funds into film development, licensing films at mutually beneficial terms www.carnabyinternational.com Diabolical” starring Ali Larter; the gripping founder and CEO of the company. production, distribution, sales and export. world-wide. Our expertise is in the fantasy, drama “The Eichmann Show” starring Martin For more information please visit: supernatural and horror genre but we are For more information please visit: SALES CELSIUS ENTERTAINMENT Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia; the uplifting www.parklandpictures.com www.bfi.org.uk emotional drama “Life at these Speeds” also keen to consolidate our reputation as a Attending: company at the forefront of the digital COMPANIES starring Billy Crudup, Graham Rogers and PROTAGONIST PICTURES BRITISH FILM COMMISSION Thierry Wase-Bailey, Sam Rockwell; Academy® Award winning revolution launching innovative, cutting edge Managing Director - Head Of Sales films from across all genres. 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The international film sales business. Twice’; the supernatural heist thriller “The Caroline Couret-Delègue, strong relationships with film-makers, to maximise the production of international company’s first creative partnerships are Trust”; the extraordinary, moving and Head Of Sales & Acquisitions investors and distributors. feature film and high-end television in the with Jalmari Helander and Alex Garland for Our current slate of completed films white-knuckle drive with one of the greatest Email: [email protected] UK. With offices in the UK and the US, the Big Game starring Samuel L Jackson, Onni includes Castle Rock’s THE FIRST TIME, movie stars of all time documentary “Steve Our shareholders include Film4, Vertigo BFC provides free tailored production Tommila and Jim Broadbent; James Watkins Canana’s COME OUT AND PLAY starring McQueen: The Man & Le Mans”; and Oscar Launched in 2014 as part of the Metrodome Films and Ingenious Media. support at the highest level from the earliest and Simon Duric for The Loch; director Vinessa Shaw & Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Travis Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost” voiced by Group, Metrodome International is a stages of development through to post Jabbar Raisani for Outpost 37, and Gregor Fine’s ANY DAY NOW, winner of an Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. London-based international sales agent For more information please: production, including guidance on the UK’s Cameron and Owen Harris for Kill Your unprecedented 13 audience awards and handling worldwide sales on Metrodome’s For more information please visit: www.protagonistpictures.com lucrative film and television tax reliefs and Friends. Park-Chan Wook’s 2003 cult classic OLDBOY, in-house productions along with worldwide www.contentmediacorp.com assistance with sourcing key crew, talent, digitally re-mastered version. sales on new films from independent, third THE WORKS facilities and locations. Altitude Film Sales is representing an exciting party producers. INTERNATIONAL SALES slate of films including Fishing Without Nets, HANWAY FILMS For further information please visit: Our new slate of films includes ROSA Attending: www.britishfilmcommission.org.uk winner of the Sundance US Dramatic [working title] from acclaimed director Ray Attending: The company’s objective is to provide a full Directing award; Bolshoi Babylon, about the Lawrence [JINDABYNE, LANTANA] and THE Thorsten Schumacher, and collaborative service for its producers Edrianne Wenger, famous ballet theatre; Spooks: The Greater and distributors through the film-making Sales & Marketing Executive FILM EXPORT UK LORD OF THE RINGS producer. ROSA is a Managing Director Good based on the BAFTA-winning TV series; sweeping romance set across three Anna Chettle, process from development to deal to Email: [email protected] Attending: The Last Word, a horror from Simon Rumley; generations and two continents and stars Sales Manager promotion and release of its titles. Charlie Bloye, Chief Executive PULP, a celebration of rock band Pulp by Elena Anaya [THE SKIN I LIVE IN] and Emily Email: [email protected] Established in 1986, The Works International Mobile: +44 7775 521 656 Florian Habicht; The Call-Up, winner of the Browning [POMPEII, SUCKER PUNCH]. Metrodome Group recently announced the is one of Europe’s leading sales agents and Email: [email protected] 2011 Brit List; Julius Avery’s action thriller Son Shoots October 2014 in Buenos Aires. In 1999, Jeremy Thomas founded launch of a production fund in partnership has cemented its position in the marketplace of a Gun starring Ewan McGregor; The international sales company HanWay Films with Moli Films under which Metrodome with a string of commercial and artistic Film Export UK is the trade body for Hallow, a dark chiller by Corin Hardy; Catch INTO THE FOREST - an apocalyptic/eco with his colleagues Peter Watson (Deputy International will oversee projects and successes. companies with UK offices selling, marketing Me Daddy from director Daniel Wolfe; the drama from director Patricia Rozema Chairman) and Stephan Mallmann, and handle international sales. and distributing independent feature films underwater thriller 47 Meters Down directed [MANSFIELD PARK], starring Ellen Page continues to Chair the board. Two new Highlights over the years have included around the world. The association performs by Johannes Roberts; Christopher Smith’s [X-MEN, INCEPTION, JUNO] and Evan Rachel members joined the board in 2011, Thorsten Metrodome International aims to bring five Oscar winners The Cove, Man on Wire, and a wide range of functions to support and family comedy Get Santa; the thriller Tiger Wood [THE IDES OF MARCH, WHATEVER Schumacher, previously Head of Sales, was titles to market each year covering a wide The Crying Game; Oscar nominees Venus and sustain the export of UK independent films House by Thomas Daley; as well as Big Game, WORKS], from the producer of NOVEMBER appointed Managing Director, and former range of genres. Whale Rider; Golden Globe nominee and worldwide smash hits Bend It Like Beckham from British companies but its members Kill Your Friends, The Loch and Outpost 37. MAN. Story centres on two sisters living in a Head of Business Affairs Jan Spielhoff took For more information please visit: and I Am Love; In This World and The Road handle films of all nationalities because of For more information please visit: remote part of a Northern California forest up the reins as Chief Operating Officer. www.metrodomeinternational.com the high concentration of specialist global www.altitudefilmsales.com on the brink of an apocalypse. Shoots April To Guantanamo, winners of the Berlin Golden Bear and Silver Bear respectively; sales and marketing expertise for which the 2014 on Vancouver Island. HanWay has established itself as leading PARKLAND PICTURES UK is renowned. CARNABY INTERNATIONAL international sales, distribution and and Cannes Competition award-winners For further information please visit: Attending: Sweet Sixteen and Clean. For further information please visit: Attending: www.celsiusentertainment.com marketing company specialising in high- profile quality films from worldwide talent. Pierre-Louis Manes-Murphy, www.filmexportuk.com Tania Sarra, HanWay arranges financing, sales and International Sales & Acquisition Manager The Works is currently handing erotic drama Director of International Sales CONTENT MEDIA CORPORATION distribution for all films from Recorded Email: [email protected] SWUNG, starring Elena Anaya, raunchy UK TRADE & INVESTMENT Email: [email protected] Attending: Picture Company, along with projects from comedy DRIVE SHE SAID, starring Jason Biggs Attending: Philippa Roden, Kevin Adege, third party producers. In 2006, Parkland Pictures was formed as an and heart-pumping horror THERE ARE Richard Flood, Sales & Distribution Co-ordinator Manager, International Sales International Sales Agency to sell its own MONSTERS. Email: [email protected] Deputy Trade Commissioner at Email: [email protected] HanWay also represents an extensive film films and to acquire international sales rights For more information please: UK Trade & Investment catalogue of over 500 features including films for films from outside the company. www.theworksfilmgroup.com Carnaby International Sales and Email: [email protected] Launched in 2002 by Jamie Carmichael, from Thomas’s Recorded Picture Company and Parkland’s presence in both the Production Distribution is a UK film company Content Film is the sales arm of the Content the British Film Institute. Representing the very and the Distribution worlds gives it a unique specialising in worldwide sales with a UKTrade & Investment (UKTI) works with Media Corporation Ltd. best in film-making talent, these include understanding of the business. In 2010, Darkland Distribution was created