All My Screen Life articles
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My Screen Life: UK producer Rebecca O’Brien on her love of cold-water swims and 1960s musicals
Revered UK producer O’Brien is a long-time collaborator of director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
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My Screen Life: Lionsgate UK’s Marie-Claire Benson on the UK-focused acquisitions strategy
The head of Lionsgate UK was inspired early in her career by several women leaders.
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My Screen Life: Vue CEO Tim Richards on skiing, Starbucks and growing up in Brazil
”The industry is at a turning point, and I’m more excited [now] about the future than I have been in 34 years in the business.”
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My Screen Life: SXSW’s Claudette Godfrey on her love of ‘Top Gun’ and being a “fixer”
SXSW’s head of film and TV reveals her three-beverage start to the day and why the Daniels — or Gaspar Noé — would be the perfect directors to depict her life
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My Screen Life: Protagonist Pictures’ Mounia Wissinger on mentors, cats and Willem Dafoe
The senior vice president of global marketing and publicity. at UK sales outfit Protagonist Pictures talks about the women who have supported her, favourite festivals, and why she loves Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy.
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My Screen Life: Cornerstone Films’ Carla Quarto di Palo on coming to film late and the future of sales
The newly promoted head of sales at London and Los Angeles-based Cornerstone Films talks about her love of Billy Wilder and why her favourite film festival is Toronto.
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My Screen Life: Charades’ CEO Yohann Comte on working between Paris and Tallinn and the evolving sales landscape
“Finally, the theatrical experience is driving the business again”
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My Screen Life: Zentropa’s Louise Vesth on having a messy desk, her email tip, and why she works with young people
Vesth also recalls a controversial press conference with Lars von Trier.
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My Screen Life: ‘Ted Lasso’ composer Tom Howe on early starts and his love for Christopher Reeve’s Superman
Howe has also worked on ’Daisy Jones & The Six’ and ’The People We Hate At The Wedding’.
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My Screen Life: Berlin cinema founder Verena von Stackelberg on how she got her start, her influences and her favourite festival
Programmer and founder of Berlin’s Wolf Kino cinema on who she admires in the industry and her discovery of indie film
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My Screen Life: MipTV, Mipcom director Lucy Smith on what she has learned from Shonda Rhimes and Bob Iger
She also discusses why she loves her job and how she unwinds from its fast pace
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My Screen Life: TriStar Pictures president Nicole Brown on being a child actor, ‘Baby Driver 2’
The former child actor and now president of TriStar Pictures reveals a love of musicals, what she learned from Viola Davis’s memoir, and never giving up on Edgar Wright.
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My Screen Life: Killer Films' Pamela Koffler talks Meryl Streep, Anna Karenina and a disastrous trip home from Fyre Island
The New York-based producer and partner at Killer Films on her morning routine, rotating the posters in her office and with whom she would most like to take a meeting.
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My Screen Life: ‘A Man Called Otto’ producer Rita Wilson on Venice, ‘Mary Poppins’ and the FBI
The actress, producer and singer is Oscar-shortlisted for the song ‘Til You’re Home’.
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My Screen Life: Passion Pictures’ Lizzie Gillett on cold-water swimming, the industry’s class problem
Lizzie Gillett is the UK-based director of Passion Pictures’ feature division.
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My Screen Life: Studiocanal’s Elizabeth Trotman on box office predictions, female CEOs and British comedies
Studiocanal’s CEO for Australia and New Zealand grew up watching British comedies and now asks her colleagues to predict how each film will perform, rewarding the closest.
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My Screen Life: Esther van Messel on arriving first, wise women and maintaining a champagne-stocked fridge
The CEO of Swiss doc outfit FIrst Hand Films spent time on a kibbutz before studying film with Ari Folman and Hagi Levi.
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My Screen Life: Rai Com’s Alessandro Ravani on Clint Eastwood, ‘Andor’ and how he unwinds
The Italian sales executive reveals has worked at Rai Com for 15 years.
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My Screen Life: French producer Charles Gillibert on his typical breakfast and taking advice from Olivier Assayas
Gillibert’s films include Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours, Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy and Leos Carax’s Annette.
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My Screen Life: 3000 Pictures’ Elizabeth Gabler on her mentors, unwinding with her horses, and the hardest film she's ever worked on
The Sony-owned, literary-driven 3000 Pictures has credits including this summer’s Where The Crawdads Sing and Telluride premiere Lady Chatterley’s Lover.