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Wildgaze Films is a London-based independent film and television production company run by producing duo Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, who are Oscar-nominated for BROOKLYN (2016) and AN EDUCATION (2010), and won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film in 2016 for Brooklyn.
Oscar-nominated producer Finola Dwyer, ONZM, began her career as an editor at the National Film Unit, then went to TVNZ. Dwyer soon added producing to her skill set. Among the memorable Kiwi features she worked on are Came a Hot Friday, Starlight Hotel, and The Quiet Earth.
Finola Dwyer ONZM (born 10 July 1963) is a UK-based New Zealand film producer and editor, best known for her films An Education and Brooklyn, produced with frequent collaborator Amanda Posey.
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Location: Cardiff, Wales and Los Angeles, US Headed by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner, Bad Wolf is making a mark on the UK and US TV markets from its base in South Wales. Having originally brought Russell T Davies’ rebooted Doctor Who to Cardiff, Tranter and Gardner have helped revolutionise Wales’ creative industry. Bad Wolf is currently in produc...
Location: London, England Faye Ward established Fable Pictures in 2016 after enjoying success alongside Alison Owen at Ruby Films, and producing Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette in 2015. Since then, she has produced Stan & Ollie, directed by Jon S Baird and starring John C Reilly and Steve Coogan, which was based at Pinewood and West London Studios and o...
Locations: London, England and Los Angeles/New York, US Co-founded by the award-winning duo of Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford, Merman has established itself as one of the UK’s leading lights in television entertainment. Work includes the Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney-penned Catastrophe for Amazon/Channel 4, the Sarah Jessica Parker starring Div...
Location: London, England Launched in 2014 by Ruby Films founder Alison Owen and Working Title’s Debra Hayward, Monumental has since been involved in a raft of big- and small-screen productions. This includes two series of Harlots for Hulu, with a third on the way, and Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Catlin Moran’s How To Build A Girl, which will hav...
Location: Manchester, England When Nicola Shindler set up Manchester-based production company Red in 1998, it was with the aim of working with great writers to create modern and innovative television programming. Over the past 21 years the company has done just that, having produced the likes of groundbreaking gay drama Queer As Folk, Yorkshire cop...
Location: London, England Founded in 2000 by Gail Egan and the late Simon Channing Williams, Potboiler joined forces with Andrea Calderwood’s Slate Films in 2009. The company’s focus on high quality talent-driven international drama has resulted in Oscar winners The Constant Gardener, from Fernando Meirelles, and The Last King of Scotland, from Kev...
Location: Glasgow, Scotland Sigma films was established in Glasgow in 1996 by Gillian Berrie, together with director David Mackenzie and his actor brother Alistair. The trio has worked with Scandinavian filmmakers Lars Von Trier (Dogville) and Susanne Bier (After The Wedding). Other critical hits include Andrea Arnold’s Red Road and David Mackenzie...
Location: London, England Founded in 2015 by experienced television producer Jane Featherstone (The Tunnel, Law & Order UK, Utopia), Sister Pictures has quickly established itself as a creator of exciting small-screen entertainment. Recent shows include divorce law drama The Split, for Sundance TV/BBC, for which a second season is forthcoming; Netf...
Location: Nottingham, England Previously film programme manager at the British Council, Rachel Robey left that role in 2018 to concentrate full time on Wellington Films, the company she established with Al Clark at the turn of the millennium. Based in Nottingham, Wellington has been behind critically acclaimed films including Paul Andrew Williams’ ...
Location: London For Finola Dwyer, who heads up Wildgaze Films with Amanda Posey, the company’s central ethos is simple: “To trust our instincts and to follow our passions.” It’s an approach that’s worked; past productions include the multiple award-winning Lone Scherfig’s An Education, John Crowley’s Brooklyn and Ritesh Batra’s Our Souls At Night ...
Finola Dwyer - Finola Dwyer, ONZM, began as an editor. After cutting Country Calendar and movie Trial Run, she was encouraged by Larry Parr to become a producer. Three films and a number of TV programmes later, Dwyer began her producing career anew in London in the early 90s.
Wildgaze Films is one of the UK’s leading independent film production companies, with a distinguished track record of producing high-quality films. It is a small company with a dedicated and passionate team, headed up by double Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-award-winning producers Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey (for Brooklyn and An Education ).
Finola Dwyer. Finola Dwyer is an Oscar nominated and BAFTA award winning film and television producer. She runs Wildgaze Films with her producing partner, Amanda Posey. Finola moved to the UK in the early 1990s after having started her career in New Zealand, where she was born.
