I have been looking up two producers. I decided to look up two women as I haven't yet mentioned any female producers. They are also both British. Interestingly, one it was really hard to find out anything personal about like where she was born, and the other it was mostly personal. I chose these two as they have both done films I have enjoyed. These are my notes.
Nira Park
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| Nira Park |
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| Big talk productions logo |
Park says she wrote to a comedy company called ComicStrip until they let her join in 1989. Once in she swept the floor and worked her way up to be production manager while the company shot short comedy films for Channel 4. In June 1995 she left to found Big Talk Productions (website http://www.bigtalkproductions.com/), where she continued working with Channel 4. They teamed her up with director Edgar Wright. Together they made the popular T.V series 'Spaced'. A multi-tasker, Park was working on several T.V projects when Edgar Wright started trying to push forward a film idea called 'Shaun of the Dead', so she left the other projects to work on financing the film project full time. After a time Working Title agreed to finance the project. Park formed alliances with them and they still work together. 'Shaun of the Dead' (website http://www.focusfeatures.com/shaun_of_the_dead) was released in 2004 and became her and Wrights break through piece. Park went on to produce the entire Cornetto Trilogy with Wright, Pegg and Frost as well as breaking into the American market to produce 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' (website http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world/).
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| 'Spaced' which ran from 1999-2001 |
Her work has won the audience award at SXSW festival and she was named one to watch by Varity magazine in 2005 and won Producer of the year in 2010 at the Women in Film and Television awards. Big Talk productions remains a action/ horror/ comedy production company, but pushed the boat out a bit in 2013 when they did a psychological thriller.
Alison Owen
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| Alison Owen |
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| Ruby Film and Television logo |
Owen started out reading English Literature at University College London. She volunteered on student films at the National Film School to gain experience then used the 'Music Video boom' to become a music video producer for MTV. She went on to work for limelight film and video, where agents heard she was making films and sent her 'doss' scripts. She impressed them by giving feedback on them all.
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Jane Eyre 2011, produced by Ruby
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At a short film festival Owen saw a film which she liked and rang up the creators agent and got in contact to create her first feature film, 'Hear my Song' 1991. She went on to create Ruby Film and Television (website http://www.rubyfilms.co.uk/ which works with ITV in production and distribution and produced the BAFTA winning film 'Elizabeth' (1998) (website http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/elizabeth-the-golden-age/). She has gone on to produce many films and T.V films. Most recently she produced 'Saving Mr Banks' (2013) (Website http://movies.disney.com/saving-mr-banks) which she says came about after deciding to do an Australian-British co-production.
These are my two producers. It took me a long time to find the information on Nira Park as she seems to mainly only talk about the project she is currently doing, and never mentions anything like if she went to university. I cant even find out how old she was when she started at ComicStrip. Overall I have really enjoyed learning about these two producers. They seem to differ from a lot of producers I have already looked at in that they have never been actors or directors. They both worked their way up to being film producers through working in T.V and meeting the right people. I really enjoyed reading about both of them.
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