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Stephen Evans Producer Evans co-founded Renaissance Films, bringing in Kenneth Branagh as creative director. He executive produced ‘Henry V’ and ‘Peter’s Friends’ and produced ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘The Wings of the Dove’. He also produced ‘The Madness of King George’ independently of Renaissance which was nominated for thirteen BAFTAs and won three including Best British Film and Best Actor. The above films have eleven Academy Award nominations between them, and have won two. Evans was a member of the Stock Exchange from 1973 to 1996 specialising in institutional and corporate broking. He is also a Director of Film and Television Completions Limited, a Council Member of the Royal Court Theatre and a Trustee of the National Film School. Peter Berry In 1998, Berry won the RTS Award for Best Writer and was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Single Drama for Steven Whitaker’s ‘A Life for a Life’ starring Olympia Dukakis. Other writing credits include ‘Goodbye My Love’ for Granada, ‘People who Knock on the Door’ for the BBC, ‘Ratking’, ‘Torch’ and ‘The Hunt for Marco Polo’ for Zenith and ‘Heaven on Earth’ for Warner Bros. Prior to writing, Berry produced ‘Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt’ which was shown at the London and Sydney Film Festivals and directed ‘The Nightwatchman’ a live drama broadcast with Keith Allen and ‘Bread’, a National Film School Production which won him a Silver Boomerang Award and the John Grierson Award – Honorary Mention. Bernard Lutic Other film credits include Christophe Malavoy’s ‘La Ville dont le Prince est un enfant’, Jeannot Szwarc’s ‘Hercule & Sherlock’, Yves Angelo’s César nominated ‘Le Colonel Chabert’, Richard Lester’s ‘The Return of the Musketeers’, Eric Rohmer’s ‘L’Ami de mon Amie’, ‘Le Beau Mariage’ and ‘La Femme de l’Aviateur’, Hugh Hudson’s ‘Revolution’ and Claude Lelouch’s ‘Viva la Vie’. Tony Burrough His other film credits include Steve Barron’s ‘Arabian Nights’ starring Dougray Scott and Rufus Sewell, Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s ‘Ordinary Decent Criminal’ starring Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino, Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Great Expectations’ starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke, Richard Loncraine’s ‘Wide Eyed and Legless’ starring Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters and ‘Beeban Kidron’s ‘Great Moments in Aviation’ starring Vanessa Redgrave and John Hurt. His film production design debut was with Michael Whyte’s ‘The Railway Station Man’ starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. His television credits include Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’ for which he was nominated for a BAFTA and most recently Philip Saville’s ‘The Buccaneers’, Christopher Morahan’s ‘Summer Day’s Dream’, Noella Smith’s ‘The Hummingbird Tree’ and Gillies Mackinnon’s ‘Grass Arena’ and ‘Needle’. His first television productions were for producer Shaun Sutton and include ‘Titus Andronicus’, ‘Devil’s Disciple’, ‘The Contractor’, ‘The Browning Version’, ‘Season’s Greetings’ and ‘When we are Married’. |