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Biographies
Harry Treadaway | Andrea Riseborough
Sam Taylor-Wood | Patrick Marber | Anthony Minghella CBE
Caroline Harvey | Adrian Sturges
Harry Treadaway (Peter)
Harry
trained at LAMDA and graduated in 2006. He took time off in 2004 to film Brothers of the Head for which he received a BIFA Nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. He played Stephen Morris in Control, which premiered at Cannes in 2007 and he will shortly be seen alongside Bill Murray and Tim Robbins in Tom Hanks’ production of City of Ember.
Andrea Riseborough
(Georgia)
Andrea
graduated from RADA in 2005. She has worked at the Royal Court – The Pain and the Itch, the National Theatre – Burn, Chatroom and Citizenship, on television – Party Animals and the soon to be seen Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley, and on Film – Magicians and Mike Leigh’s forthcoming Happy-Go-Lucky.
Sam Taylor-Wood
| 1967 | Born, Croydon |
| 1990 | Graduated Goldsmith’s College, London |
| Films | |
| 2008 | Love You More, Director. Screenplay by Patrick Marber (35mm, 15mins) |
| 2006 | Destricted, Director. segment “Death Valley” (35mm, 8mins) |
| Music Videos | |
| 2005 | Turn the Lights Out When You Leave, Director. Written by Elton John with Thomas Jane |
| 2001 | I Want Love Director Written by Elton John with Robert Downey Jnr |
| Selected Exhibitions | |
| 2007 | Sam Taylor-Wood, MoCA Cleveland |
| Sam Taylor-Wood, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston | |
| 2006 | Still Lives, Baltic, Newcastle |
| Sam Taylor-Wood, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; City Gallery Wellington, Wellington | |
| 2005 | Sex and Death and A Few Trees, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome |
| 2004 | Sam Taylor-Wood, Engineer’s Palace, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg and Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow |
| New Work, White Cube, London | |
| David, National Portrait Gallery, London and Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester | |
| 2003 | Sam Taylor-Wood, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna |
| 2002 | Still Life/Object/Real Life/Memento Mori, Collection Display, Tate Modern, London |
| Sam Taylor-Wood, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal | |
| Sam Taylor-Wood, Hayward Gallery, London | |
| 2001 | Solo exhibition, Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
| 1999 | Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington |
| 1998 | Solo exhibition, Prada Foundation, Milan |
| Turner Prize nomination, Tate Gallery, London | |
| 1997 | Sam Taylor-Wood : Five Revolutionary Seconds, Sala Montcada de la Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona |
| Solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich and Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk | |
47th Venice Biennale, Venice – Illy Café Prize for Most Promising Young Artist |
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Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964.
Plays
Dealer’s Choice, After Miss Julie, Closer, Howard Katz, The Musicians, Hoop Lane,
Don Juan in Soho.
Film
The Egg, Old Street, Closer, Asylum, Notes on a Scandal (winner BIFA Best Screenplay 2007).
TV
(co-writer) The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge,
Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries.
Anthony Minghella CBE
Throughout his acclaimed career as a director, producer and writer Anthony Minghella’s films were nominated for 24 Academy Award Oscars and 36 BAFTA Awards. He is best known for his Oscar-winning film The English Patient (1996), which he adapted and directed from Michael Ondaatje’s novel of the same name.
He made his feature film debut directing and writing the critically acclaimed Truly Madly Deeply (1991). His other film work has included The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), which he adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel, Cold Mountain (2003), which he adapted from the Charles Frazier novel and Breaking and Entering (2006) an original screenplay.
Anthony also directed Madam Butterfly with his wife Carolyn Choa. Madam Butterfly was a co-production between The English National Opera House, The Lithuanian Opera House and The Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Madam Butterfly won a Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production.
From 2002 until 2008, Anthony Minghella was Chairman of the British Film Institute. He held Honorary Doctorates from the University of Hull (1998) the University of Southampton (2000) and the University of Bournemouth (2001).
Since 2000, Anthony Minghella was joint-owner with Sydney Pollack of Mirage Enterprises. The company has been involved in projects such as Iris, The Quiet American, The Interpreter and most recently Michael Clayton and The Reader.
His last productions were The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, based on the novel by Alexander McCall Smith which he co-wrote with Richard Curtis and directed, the screenplay for Love Life, a segment of the forthcoming New York, I Love You which will be directed by Shekhar Kapur and Love You More, the short film debut of artist Sam Taylor-Wood.
Caroline Harvey
Caroline is Head of Development at Mirage Enterprises in London and worked on the company’s productions of Cold Mountain, Breaking and Entering, Michael Clayton and The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
Love You More is her first film as producer.
Adrian Sturges
Co-Producer
Adrian has produced eight short films and two feature films – comedy The Baker with Damian Lewis, Kate Ashfield and Michael Gambon and thriller The Escapist with Brian Cox, Joe Fiennes, Dominic Cooper and Damian Lewis, which had its premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Adrian is a partner in Picture Farm, a London and New York based Production Company whose first film, Marc Singer’s Dark Days, won the Independent Spirit Award and the Sundance Audience and Cinematography Awards.
Adrian was born in London and studied at Cambridge and the National Film and Television School. In 2005 Screen International named him a Star of Tomorrow in their survey of British film talent.
Harry Treadaway | Andrea Riseborough