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Christopher Collins
Chris Collins has experience at all levels of production and has been involved in the realisation of some of the key independent feature films made in the UK in the past few years. During a period in-house as an executive at the British Film Institute’s Production arm he played a prominent role in the production of John Maybury’s Love is the Devil and oversaw the production of Carine Adler’s Under the Skin. Whilst there he also developed a number of scripts including Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter’s Lawless Heart and played a crucial role in developing and financing Jasmin Dizdar’s Beautiful People (Prix du Jury, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 1999) which he then guided to realisation as line producer working closely with producer Ben Woolford.
In 2000 he worked with BBC producer Ruth Caleb to realise Pawel Pawlikowski’s landmark micro budget feature Last Resort which went on to win the Michael Powell award best British feature at Edinburgh 2001.
In 2001, Chris formed his production company, home movies, in order to work again with Caleb on Francesca Joseph’s dramatic debut Tomorrow La Scala! . Screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2002, the film was transmitted on BBC 2 in December 2002 to critical acclaim and won best independent drama at PACT’s Indie awards, was nominated for best drama at the Royal Television Society awards and nominated for a BAFTA award for best single drama. It won best television film at Banff international festival.
In 2003 he worked in collaboration with producer Gayle Griffiths to successfully guide the production of Emily Young’s debut feature Kiss of Life (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2003 and winner of Carl Foreman award for best newcomer at BAFTA awards 2004).
He was a producer of Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love which won the Michael Powell award for best British feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August 2004, was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Film, and won the BAFTA Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film.
His most recent film as independent producer was Brick Lane, directed by Sarah Gavron, from Monica Ali’s award winning first novel.
Chris was Senior Production and Development Executive for the UK Film Council, until its transfer to the BFI where he is now an essential part of the new-look film production funding team.
He joins us as a guest producer/development exec for Wrestling the Redraft: Practical Script Development.
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