Graham Broadbent
Graham Broadbent is a British film producer. With ten films in eleven years, he is currently one of the most active producers in the genre of independent film. His many films received mostly positive reviews, such as In Bruges ... and die? or Thunderpants.
Career
As co-founder of the production company Motion Pictures, he produced in 2002 the film Thunderpants by Peter Hewitt and Picadilly Jim by John McKay. In addition, he produced the movie Millions by Danny Boyle, who won the British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2005.
Previously, he founded and led by Damien Jones, the production company Dragon Pictures, for whom he produced several films, such as Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom, which was shown at the International Film Festival in Cannes in 1997 and rated by Time magazine as one of the ten best films of the year. More at Dragon Pictures produced films are Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) by Michael Radford, Some Voices by Simon Cellan Jones, Very Annie Mary (2001) by Sara Sugarman, Splendor (1999) by Gregg Araki, A Texas Funeral by William Blake Herron and The Debt Collector.
In 2004 he founded together with Pete Czernin again a production company, which he called Blueprint Pictures. The first productions appeared in 2007, on the one hand, the biopic Becoming Jane with Anne Hathaway in the lead role, on the other hand the horror film The icy death of Gregory Jacobs, who was co-produced by George Clooney and Steven Special Bergh. In 2008, the drama was to see Bruges ... and die? published.