The 2002 Jury Chair
The 2002 Jury
Robert Jones most recently served as Head of the UK Film Council's Premiere Fund. His production credits include THE USUAL SUSPECTS, HARD EIGHT, THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, GOSFORD PARK, VERA DRAKE and THE CONSTANT GARDENER. With more than 25 years in the industry, Jones brings an impressive track record of working with established talent and identifying and developing new talent.
In addition to producing, he has considerable experience in distribution and film acquisition, working with such companies as Palace and PolyGram. There he acquired such films as SHALLOW GRAVE, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, RESERVOIR DOGS, CINEMA PARADISO, MY LEFT FOOT and PRINCE - SIGN O' THE TIMES.
In his role as head of Material Entertainment, Jones is developing commercial movies that play to international audiences. David Schwimmer's RUN FAT BOY RUN starring Simon Pegg is their first feature.
Born in East London in 1972, Kapadia studied filmmaking at the Royal College of Art where he first gained recognition with his short film THE SHEEP THIEF (1997). Shot in Rajasthan, India on a self-raised budget of £25,000 and a UK crew of seven, The SHEEP THIEF won several awards including second prize in the Cinefoundation section of the 1998 Cannes International Film Festival, Grand Prix at the 1997 Brest Film Festival & Best Director at the Poitiers Film Festival.
Kapadia’s ‘romance with India’ and his distinct visual style continued with the making of his first feature, THE WARRIOR, shot entirely in the deserts of Rajasthan and the snow capped Himachal Pradesh. THE WARRIOR was championed in the British Press as ‘epic’, ‘stunning’ and with a ‘shimmering beauty with something calm and seductively mysterious’ (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian) and went on to win two BAFTA Awards for Outstanding British Film of the Year and The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a Director, Screenwriter or Producer in their First Feature Film, as well as the prestigious Sutherland Award at the London Film Festival among others.
FAR NORTH, Kapadia’s latest film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2007, was four years in the making and is based on a short story by writer Sara Maitland. Kapadia uses the visual palette and expressive ambience of the landscape of Svalbard as his ‘take on the brutal cold landscape and what desperation and loneliness can drive people to do’. Using the ‘monochromatic colours of the landscape and the sea sprinkled with intense blue icebergs …mixed with grumbling cracking of ice fields and the subsonic booms of the water beneath’ (Jonathan Romney, Sight and Sound), Kapadia creates an eerie landscape where survival is key.
Trudie Styler is an actress, film producer, director, human rights activist, environmentalist, organic farmer and Unicef Ambassador. Her passionate concerns for the environment and human rights motivate many of her career choices, and are reflected most clearly in her documentary films and fundraising activities.
Trudie’s film credits with her production company Xingu Films include the documentaries BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1993); IDA award-winning MOVING THE MOUNTAIN (1995); award-winning documentary on the making of a Walt Disney animation THE SWEATBOX (2002) which she co-directed; and A KIND OF CHILDHOOD (2002). Always the champion of first-time filmmakers, Trudie’s production credits include THE GROTESQUE (1996), Guy Ritchie's first two films LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS (1998) and SNATCH (2000) which she executive produced; GREENFINGERS (2001); CHEEKY (2003); ALPHA MALE (2005); and A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS (2006) which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Directing Award for its writer/director Dito Montiel, and the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. 2009 will see the Sony Classics release of the science fiction feature MOON, produced by Trudie and directed by first-time writer/director Duncan Jones. Commissioned by Glamour magazine, Trudie directed her first short film entitled WAIT in the summer of 2005 in New York, and is scheduled to direct her first full-length feature in 2009, also in New York.
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