BBC Film

BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990,[5] and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Quartet, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Saving Mr. Banks, My Week with Marilyn, Eastern Promises, Match Point, Jane Eyre, In the Loop, An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, The History Boys, Nativity!, Iris, Notes on a Scandal, Philomena, Stan & Ollie, Man Up, Billy Elliot and Brooklyn.

BBC Film
FormerlyBBC Films (1990–2020)
IndustryFilm
Founded18 June 1990 (18 June 1990)
FoundersDavid M. Thompson
Headquarters,
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Rose Garnett
Eva Yates
ProductsMotion pictures
ServicesFilm
OwnerBBC
ParentBBC
Subsidiaries
Websitebbc.co.uk/bbcfilm

BBC Film co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Eva Yates is head of BBC Film, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.[6]

The company was founded in 1990 by David M. Thompson as a wholly owned but independent film-making company, based in offices in Mortimer Street, London. A restructuring in 2007 integrated it into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into BBC Television Centre, and Thompson left to start his own film production company.[7] BBC Film has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013.[8] The company changed its name to BBC Film in 2020.[9][10]

Productions

1990

1991

  • Enchanted April
  • Edward II
  • The Reflecting Skin

1992

1993

1994

  • Captives (with Miramax Films & Distant Horizon)
  • The Hour of the Pig

1995

1996

1997

  • Twenty Four Seven
  • I Went Down
  • My Son the Fanatic
  • Love and Death on Long Island
  • Mrs Dalloway
  • Mrs Brown
  • The Relic

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

  • Quartet
  • Shadow Dancer
  • Spike Island
  • Blood
  • Good Vibrations
  • Great Expectations
  • In the Dark Half
  • A Running Jump
  • StreetDance 2
  • Strawberry Fields (co-production with Soda Pictures, Film London Microwave, Kent County Council Film Office, Screen South, Met Film Post, and UK Film Council)
  • Perfect Sense

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

  • After Love
  • The Mauritanian
  • Can't Get You Out of My Head (documentary series)
  • People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan
  • Ear for Eye
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Pirates
  • The Souvenir Part II
  • The Phantom of the Open
  • Cow
  • Body of Water (co-production with Verve Pictures, Film London Microwave, British Film Institute, Lions Den Films, Bright Shadow Films, and Boudica Films)
  • Here Before

2022

  • Aisha
  • Ali & Ava
  • Benediction
  • God's Creatures
  • Aftersun
  • Triangle of Sadness
  • The Lost King
  • Allelujah
  • The Eternal Daughter
  • Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (documentary series)

2023

  • Girl
  • Blue Jean
  • Medusa Deluxe
  • Rye Lane
  • Scrapper
  • Club Zero
  • Femme
  • The Old Oak
  • In Camera
  • Silver Haze
  • Sweet Sue
  • Silent Roar
  • Chuck Chuck Baby
  • Tuesday
  • Janet Planet
  • Hoard
  • One Life
  • The End We Start From
  • The Great Escaper
  • The Iron Claw

2024

  • The Outrun
  • Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
  • Edge of Summer

Upcoming

See also

References

  1. "BBC Documentary Arm Storyville moves under BBC Film remit". Screen Daily. 26 October 2020.
  2. "IFeatures".
  3. "A bold new vision for BBC Films".
  4. "Film London, BFI, and BBC's Microwave Commissions Films from Female & Non-Binary Directors".
  5. "BBC Films: Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema in 2015". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  6. "Eva Yates appointed new Director of BBC Film". BBC Media Centre. 4 May 2022.
  7. "David Thompson to leave Head of BBC Films role to launch new company". BBC. 14 September 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  8. "BBC News' television output moves to new studios at Broadcasting House". BBC. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  9. "BBC Films becomes BBC Film - but the dodgy BBC logo remains". Clean Feed. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  10. Wiseman, Andreas (3 December 2020). "'Harriet' Actress Cynthia Erivo To Star In & Produce Story Of Princess "Gifted" To Queen Victoria; BBC Film, Benedict Cumberbatch's SunnyMarch & So So Producing". Deadline. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  11. "BBC – The Other Boleyn Girl – BBC Films".
  12. "BBC Films unveils upcoming slate at Cannes". BBC. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  13. "BBC - My Scientology Movie - BBC Films". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016.
  14. "BBC – A United Kingdom – BBC Films".
  15. "Upcoming Films".
  16. Lodderhose, Diana (17 February 2016). "eOne Boards Steve Coogan-John C. Reilly's Laurel and Hardy Biopic 'Stan & Ollie'".
  17. Hipes, Patrick (20 March 2024). "Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent & Simon Russell Beale To Star In Nicholas Hytner-Alan Bennett Reteam 'The Choral'; SPC Lands Rights". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
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