09/02/2005

BBC Films, the film production arm of UK public broadcaster BBC has announced that three of its recent productions have been selected at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival: Dominic Savage’s Love + Hate will have its world premiere at the Panorama section while Pearse Elliott’s The Mighty Celt and Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love [+see also:
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Love + Hate is the new feature film by Dominic Savage, winner of the Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh 2003 for Out of Control. This new film produced by Neris Thomas (Ruby Films) is a passionate tale of young love set against a background of racial tension.
The UK/Irish co-production The Mighty Celt is written and directed by Pearson Elliott, scriptwriter for the highest Irish grossing film of 2004, Man About Dog. In the lead roles are Robert Carlyle, Gillian Anderson and Ken Stott.
My Summer of Love by Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort) just won two Evening Standard Awards on February 6th in London: the writer/director won the Best screenplay award and the two leading actresses Emily Blunt and Nathalie Press jointly won the ITV London Most Promising Newcomer award.
Commenting on the films’ selection in Berlin, David Thompson, Head of BBC Films said: “Berlin has gone from strength to strength in recent years both as a highly influential international Festival and an essential market. We are really pleased and excited to have a strong presence there this year”.

Seven other BBC Films are currently in post-production:
- Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy with Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Ian Hart, Gillian Anderson and Stephen Fry is loosely based on Laurence Sterne’s English literature masterpiece ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’;
- Pobby & Dingan, an Australian -set story is directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty);
- Oliver Parker’s Click, a UK/German co-production between Cougar Films and X-Filme Production for BBC Films and Ealing Studios is a funny romantic comedy starring Piper Perabo and Matthew Goode;
- Stephen Frears’ highly expected Mrs Henderson Presents is the true story of eccentric Windmill Theatre founder Laura Henderson played by Judi Dench alongside Bob Hoskins, produced by Norma Heyman, David Aukin and Bob Hoskins;
- Confetti, starring Martin Freeman and Jessica Stevenson is a sharp comedy directed by Debbie Isitt;
- Michael Caton Jones’ Shooting Dogs is an intense drama set against the Rwandan genocide starring John Hurt and Hugh Dancy.
- finally Match Point is Woody Allen’s first ever film shot in the UK, starring Scarlett Johannson, Emily Mortimer, and Jonathan Rhys.
The Mighty Celt, Love + Hate and My Summer of Love will all be represented in Berlin by sales agent The Works who will also have a promo-reel available on Tristram Shandy.