Adventures In Producing
Adventures In Producing
Wendy Mitchell
Film journalist Wendy Mitchell talks to amazing independent film and TV producers about their careers and lessons learned.
Adventures in Producing: Emily Morgan of Quiddity Films
Adventures in Producing is a series interviewing great independent film and TV producers across the globe, hosted by film journalist Wendy Mitchell (filmwendy.com). This episode’s guest is UK producer Emily Morgan of Quiddity Films. Her credits include I Am Not A Witch directed by Rungano Nyoni; Claire Oakley’s Make Up; Supernova by Harry Macqueen, starring Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth; The Settlers by Felipe Gálvez, which premieres at Cannes Un Certain Regard 2023; and the upcoming adaptation of Deborah Levy's Swimming Home, directed by Justin Anderson. This series is also available as video interviews on YouTube.
May 15, 2023
31 min
Adventures in Producing: Cait Pansegrouw, Urucu and Realness Institute
Adventures in Producing is a series with film journalist Wendy Mitchell interviewing top film and TV producers. In this episode, she talks to South African producer Cait Pansegrouw of Urucu and Realness Institute. Her amazing films include The Wound by John Trengove and This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese - which was Lesotho's first Oscar submission. Also available as a video interview on YouTube.
Apr 11, 2023
39 min
Adventures In Producing: Maria Ekerhovd
Adventures in Producing is a podcast series with film journalist Wendy Mitchell interviewing top film and TV producers. In this episode, she talks to Norwegian producer Maria Ekerhovd, of Mer Film. She is the winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Award at the European Film Awards 2021 and has produced films including Gunnar Vikene's War Sailor (launching at Toronto 2022), Eskil Vogt's The Innocents, Iram Haq's What Will People Say, Ole Giæver's Out of Nature, and many more. This series of interviews is also available as YouTube videos.
Sep 11, 2022
50 min
Adventures in Producing: Natasha Dack
Adventures in Producing is a series interviewing great independent film and TV producers across the globe, hosted by film journalist Wendy Mitchell (filmwendy.com). This episode’s guest is UK producer Natasha Dack, an award-winning film and television producer who is the co-founder (with Nikki Parrott) of Tigerlily Productions). Her many credits include Black Power Salute directed by Geoff Small, She a Chinese directed by Xiaolu Guo, Remainder directed by Omer Fast, Working With Weinstein directed by Alice Perman, Dying to Divorce directed by Chloe Fairweather, Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche, directed by Celeste Bell and Paul Sng. Series also available on YouTube.
May 2, 2022
41 min
Adventures In Producing: Paula Vaccaro
Adventures in Producing is a series with film journalist Wendy Mitchell interviewing top film and TV producers. In this episode, she talks to Paula Vaccaro, an award-winning British-Italian producer and screenwriter who was born in Buenos Aires and lived in the UK for the past 20 years. In 2009 she established Pinball London and her credits as a producer or executive producer include Ginger & Rosa by Sally Potter, omnibus project Words with Gods, On The Milky Road by Emir Kusturica, Uncle Howard by Aaron Brookner, and Listen directed by Ana Rocha de Souza which was an award winner at Venice 2020.
Jan 11, 2022
35 min
Adventures in Producing: Katie Holly
Adventures in Producing is a series with film journalist Wendy Mitchell interviewing top film and TV producers. In this episode, she talks to Katie Holly, Irish film producer and the owner of Blinder Films. Katie has worked on films including Citadel directed by Ciaran Foy; The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology and Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami directed by Sophie Fiennes; Vita & Virginia directed by Chanya Button; Love and Friendship directed by Whit Stillman; and French Exit directed by Azazel Jacobs.
Jan 8, 2022
39 min
Adventures in Producing: Kate Ogborn
Adventures in Producing is a series interviewing great independent film and TV producers across the globe, hosted by film journalist Wendy Mitchell (filmwendy.com). This episode’s guest is UK producer Kate Ogborn, an award-winning film and television producer and executive producer whose credits include Carine Adler's Under the Skin, starring Samantha Morton, This is England, The Deep Blue Sea, and Abandoned Goods. Kate set up Fly Film with Lisa Marie Russo where she worked on films including The Spirit of ’45 by Ken Loach and Hockney by Randall Wright. She has also worked with The Bureau and at Revolution Films (including on The Red Riding Trilogy and The Unloved). She has recently moved into episodic drama, with credits including The End of the F’ing World, The North Water directed by Andrew Haigh and the forthcoming Life After Life adapted adapted from Kate Atkinson’s novel by Bash Doran and directed by John Crowley.
Jan 8, 2022
1 hr 7 min
Adventures in Producing: Karin Chien
Adventures in Producing is a series interviewing great independent film and TV producers across the globe, hosted by film journalist Wendy Mitchell (filmwendy.com). This episode's producer is Karin Chien, who has produced films like Patricia Benoit's Stones In The Sun, Bradley Rust Gray's The Exploding Girl and Jack And Diane, Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance, The Michael Kang's Motel and Greg Pak's Robot Stories. She is also the founder of dGenerate, the North American distributor of independent Chinese cinema, which has worked on 70 titles in partnership with Icarus Films.
Jan 8, 2022
38 min
Adventures in Producing: Mary Burke
Adventures in Producing is a series interviewing great independent film and TV producers across the globe, hosted by film journalist Wendy Mitchell (filmwendy.com). This episode’s guest is Mary Burke, a BAFTA and BIFA award-winning producer who was born in the US and is based in London. She worked for many years with Warp Films on films like Submarine (Richard Ayoade), Bunny and the Bull (Paul King), Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland) and For Those In Peril (Paul Wright). She was a Film Fund Executive at the BFI for five years, working on films like God’s Own Country and Ammonite (both with director Francis Lee); Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond), Saint Maud (Rose Glass), Little Joe (Jessica Hauser), Yardie (Idris Elba) and I Am Not A Witch (Rungano Nyoni), among many more titles. She left the BFI in 2020 to become an independent producer at her own company, Public Dreams Ltd. If you like these videos please subscribe, thanks.
Jan 8, 2022
42 min
Adventures in Producing: Mynette Louie
Adventures in Producing is a series interviewing great independent film and TV producers across the globe, hosted by film journalist Wendy Mitchell (filmwendy.com). This episode spotlights Mynette Louie, a New York-based producer who has worked on films including I Carry You With Me By Heidi Ewing; The Tale by Jennifer Fox; Swallow by Carlo Mirabella-Davis; The Invitation by Karyn Kusama; Buster’s Mal Heart by Sarah Adına Smith; Mutual Appreciation by Andrew Bujalski; Hunting Season by Natalia Garagiola; Children of Invention by Tze Chun; and Land Ho! by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz. She ran Gamechanger Films from 2013 to 2018 and now has a company called The Population that she co-founded with Mollye Asher and Derek Nguyen. She is the winner of the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards Piaget Producers Award.
Jan 8, 2022
40 min
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