2007 benefactors
Wiggin
Wiggin are experts in the constantly evolving field of media law. They focus exclusively on film, music, sport, gaming, technology, broadcast and publishing. Offering highly personalised relationships with all clients Wiggin address the complex legal challenges that the media sector presents with the knowledge, experience, innovation and confidence to deliver straightforward and genuine advice, motivated only by the need to achieve the best possible outcomes for all clients.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. The company's labels include Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, DreamWorks Pictures, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies. PPC operations also include Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., Paramount Studios, and Worldwide Television Distribution.
Dazed & Confused
Founded by Jefferson Hack and Jamie Rankin in 1992, Dazed & Confused has become one of the world's leading style and taste-making magazines.
100 percent independent in ownership and spirit, Dazed is always keen to spot the next new wave of troublemakers, free-thinkers and creatives.
From this year's nominees alone, Dazed have featured Sam Riley, Jamie Bell, Cillian Murphy, Sam Morton, Anton Corbijn, Julien Temple and Ray Winstone.
Dazed continues to support home-grown talent in British Independent Film and is honoured to support this year's British Independent Film Awards.
www.dazeddigital.com
BPS Printers
Cristina Paricio & Marta Oló, Ediciones Omega - Publishers, Barcelona
3 Mills Studios
Discover 3 Mills Studios - London's largest studio complex.
Set on an historical and secure 20-acre island site close to Soho, facilities include 15 stages, rehearsal rooms, production offices, prop stores, workshops, dressing and make up rooms and much more.
This unique niche studio has been discovered by some of the industry's most successful independent filmmakers, including Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Michael Winterbottom, as well as a wide range of clients from television, theatre, advertising and music.
Feature credits include 28 WEEKS LATER, EASTERN PROMISES, SUNSHINE, BRICK LANE, IT'S A FREE WORLD, HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE, ENDURING LOVE, GREEN STREET, Tim Burton's CORPSE BRIDE and CODE 46.
Scion Films
Established by Jeff Abberley and Julia Blackman, this filmmaking partnership was initiated with the aim of financing and producing British feature films of significance.
David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, which opened the London Film Festival and is now on general release marks Scion's fourth collaboration with Focus Features, following Phillip Noyce's acclaimed Catch a Fire, starring Tim Robbins and Derek Luke; Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, starring Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley; and Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener.
Currently in post-production Abberley and Blackman are currently executive-producing Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh's suspense thriller In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
Scion's slate of films recently released or due soon also includes Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane, starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy; and Mary McGuckian's Intervention, starring Jennifer Tilly, Andie MacDowell, Colm Feore and Ian Hart, Joe Wright's Atonement and Shekhar Kapur's Golden Age
Previous projects include Michael Winterbottom's [Tristram Shandy:] A Cock and Bull Story; Joel Schumacher's worldwide success The Phantom of the Opera; Nick Hurran's It's a Boy Girl Thing; Mary McGuckian's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Rag Tale; Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah, Gurinder Chadha's sleeper hit Bend It Like Beckham; Fred Schepisi's all-star Last Orders; Mike Barker's To Kill a King; Nick Hurran's Undertaking Betty; and Liliana Cavani's Ripley's Game. Scion also recently executive-produced Richard Attenborough's recently completed Closing the Ring.
Twentieth Century Fox / Fox Searchlight
Image.net
Image.net is the ultimate choice for distributing your digital publicity and marketing material to the media, with a rapidly growing community of tens of thousands of registered users worldwide. Most of the world's major media are registered with image.net. For example, Newsweek, Le Monde, The New York Times and the UK's Times.
Warner Bros. Entertainment
WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. is a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment company and a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses. Warner Bros., a Time Warner company, stands at the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry from feature films to television, home entertainment/DVD, animation, product/brand licensing and interactive entertainment.
Warner Bros. Entertainment UK brings together all of the UK entertainment business units: Theatrical, Home Video, Home Entertainment, Television and Consumer Products. Warner Bros. has long been an important part of the UK film industry, going right back to the 1930's when it first set up a UK film production/distribution Co. Recent British films include all those in the Harry Potter Series, (the Latest being HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX), BATMAN BEGINS and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.
Aramid Capital Partners
Aramid Capital Partners sources potential investment opportunities for the Aramid Entertainment Fund, focusing on providing finance in three main areas, that of discounting tax credits, bridge and mezzanine gap financing.
Aramid Capital Partners comprises three of the film and television industry's key structured financiers: Future Capital Partners, Screen Capital International and Stonehenge Capital. Between them they have executed almost US$10 billion of film financing over the last decade.
Aramid Capital Partners' management team is headed by Simon Fawcett, Chief Executive, formerly the finance director of Pathé, who has over thirteen years' experience in television and film financing together with Tim Levy, the founder of Future Capital Partners, David Molner, the founder of Screen Capital, and Thomas Adamek, the President of Stonehenge Capital.
William Morris Agency
Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency is the largest and most diversified talent and literary agency in the world, with principal offices in New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville, London, Miami Beach and Shanghai, China. The Agency represents clients in all segments of the entertainment industry, including Motion Pictures, Television, Music and Personal Appearances, Broadway Theatre and Theatrical Touring, Book Publishing, Commercial Endorsements, Sports Marketing, Licensing & Merchandising and Corporate Consulting.
Film4
Film4 is Channel 4 Television's feature film division. Headed by Tessa Ross, the company develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the UK, both new and established. Film4 has built an enviable reputation for developing and financing the defining British films of the last quarter of a century - films like MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE, TRAINSPOTTING, SHALLOW GRAVE, EAST IS EAST, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, TOUCHING THE VOID, ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, VENUS, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, THIS IS ENGLAND and JOE STRUMMER - THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN.
Film4's host of distinctive new films includes David Mackenzie's HALLAM FOE, Sarah Gavron's BRICK LANE, Anand Tucker's AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?, Asif Kapadia's FAR NORTH, Martin McDonagh's IN BRUGES, Lenny Abrahamson's GARAGE, Duane Hopkins' BETTER THINGS, Harmony Korine's MR LONELY, a new Mike Leigh film, Ken Loach's THESE TIMES, Michael Winterbottom's GENOVA, and Sharon Maguire's INCENDIARY.
EM Media
EM Media is the Regional Screen Agency for England's East Midlands. Through investment and support, service delivery and brokerage, EM Media aims to identify, grow and support the region's dynamic talent pool, develop the range and opportunities for consumption of and engagement with media and digital product and grow the cultural and economic infrastructure of the East Midlands.
EM Media is a partner in Warp X, the pioneering digital film studio established to revitalise low-budget British film-making, an initiative of UK Film Council, Film4, Screen Yorkshire, Optimum Releasing and EM Media.
EM Media has to date co-financed 18 feature films with ERDF finance. EM Media's slate of films in production, forthcoming and current releases include: Summer (Sixteen Films 2007), suspense thriller Hush (Warp X 2007), Donkey Punch (Warp X 2007), Complete History (Warp X 2007), horror Mum and Dad (2AM Films 2007), Better Things (Mascot Pictures 2008), And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Number 9 Films 2007), Magicians (Intermedia Films 2007), Control (NorthSee 2007), This is England (Warp Films 2007). Other feature investments include Brothers of the Head (Potboiler Productions 2006), A Cock and Bull Story (Revolution Films 2006), Dead Man's Shoes (Warp Films 2005), One For the Road (One for the Road Productions 2004), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Slate Films 2003) and Anita and Me (Starfield Productions 2002).
Scottish Screen
Scottish Screen is the national development agency for the screen industries in Scotland. We aim to inspire audiences, support new and existing talent and businesses, educate young people, and promote Scotland as a creative place to make great films, award-winning television and world renowned digital entertainment.
