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 Screenplay Frank Cottrell Boyce & Andy Paterson Int. Sales Agent Pathé International Cast Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, 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 & George Clooney RUSH tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war George Clooney and Sandra Bullock star in this highly Director Ron Howard 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) Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer & 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 Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde & 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 Justin Chadwick hard-driving Formula 1 rivals James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) Producers Anant Singh & David Thompson and Niki Lauda (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 Idris Elba & Naomie Harris 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, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Tom Felton, James Norton, Matthew Goode & Emily Watson Director Richard Shepard Producers Jeremy Thomas 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 England at the end of the Cast Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Demian Bichir & Emilia Clarke Director John Ridley 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 London 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 New York City 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 Amma Asante 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 Ralph Fiennes 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: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska & Noah Taylor Int. Sales Agent Metro International Screenplay Abi Morgan E Natalie Brenner ([email protected]) Cast Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas 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 Charles Dickens, 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 Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay & Tom Holland nightmare from which he’s unable to awake. within his success – falls for Nelly, one of three sisters – 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, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose Int. Sales Agent WestEnd Films & John Boyega E Eve Schoukroun ([email protected]) E Maya Emsellem ([email protected]) LE WEEK-END ONE CHANCE ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE 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 Roger Michell 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 Hanif Kureishi of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an Cast Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan & Jeff Goldblum amateur opera singer by night. Paul became an instant YouTube phenomenon after being chosen by Simon Cowell PHILOMENA A married couple (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) for ‘Britain’s Got Talent.’ Wowing audiences worldwide with Director Stephen Frears revisit Paris to revitalise their marriage, and run into an old his phenomenal voice, Paul went on to win ‘Britain’s Got Producers Steve Coogan, Gabrielle Tana & Tracey Seaward friend (Jeff Goldblum) who acts as a catalyst for things to Talent’ and the hearts of millions. come.