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Ecosse Films is a multi award-winning company, specialising in high-quality drama for film and television, producing 11 films and over 300 hours of network television for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Showtime, Starz Channel and WGBH.
Ecosse produced the hugely successful film Mrs Brown, starring Judi Dench and Billy Connolly, which won a Golden Globe, several BAFTAS and two Oscar nominations.
Ecosse has also produced numerous TV series including BBC1'S acclaimed long-running drama Monarch of the Glen (72 hours) and more recently the BBC 1 hit series Mistresses.
Ecosse's $50 million international drama, Camelot, is a 10 part series written by Michael Hirst and Chris Chibnall for Starz Channel and Channel 4 transmitted in 2011. It stars Joseph Fiennes, Jamie Campbell Bower, Tamsin Egerton and Eva Green. Ecosse has also produced RTE's hit series RAW, set in a hip Dublin restaurant, with series 4 currently in production.
Ecosse has achieved international success with several films; Charlotte Gray starring Cate Blanchett, Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy, Brideshead Revisited starring Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon, and the global family hit The Water Horse.
The BAFTA nominated film Nowhere Boy, the teenage biopic of John Lennon directed by Sam Taylor-Wood starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Marie Duff and Aaron Johnson, premiered at the London Film Festival in 2009 to exceptional reviews and was released in 2010 in the US by The Weinstein Company. Several critics including the LA Times gave it 5 star reviews.
Recent features include the medieval chiller Black Death starring Sean Bean and a contemporary young love story which premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival in 2010, Pelican Blood, with Harry Treadaway and Emma Booth.
This year Ecosse are releasing two new productions, The Decoy Bride, a romantic comedy about a famous celebrity wedding on a remote Scottish island and a local girl recruited to act as a decoy bride. Written by Sally Phillips and Neil Jaworski and directed by Sheree Folkson, it stars David Tennant, Alice Eve and Oscar nominated Kelly Macdonald. Also Wuthering Heights adapted from Emily Brontë's classic novel by Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed. Kaya Scodelario plays Catherine Earnshaw with Oscar and BAFTA Award winning Andrea Arnold directing. The world premiere was in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2011, winning the award for Best Cinematography. The film premiered in the UK at the London Film Festival and was selected for both Toronto and Leeds Film Festivals.
Our latest film in production is Love Bite, a teen comedy/horror directed by Andy de Emmony, starring Luke Pasqualino (Skins), Jessica Szhor (Gossip Girl) and Ed Speleers.
New film productions in development include; Treasure Island, Girls Night Out, On Green Dolphin Street and American Adulterer.
Current television productions in development are; Younger Thinner Blonder, written by
Imogen Edward-Jones (Hotel Babylon) and Jonathan Harvey, The Few a series set during the Battle of Britain co-produced with Warner Bros producer Lionel Wigram (Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes). And The Dying Light, a 4 part serial adapted from the best selling novel by Henry Porter.
