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Sid Gentle Films Ltd.

Sid Gentle Films Ltd was founded by Sally Woodward Gentle in 2013 along with Lee Morris and Henrietta Colvin with a focus to develop and produce innovative, original and ambitious television drama and feature films. It is part of BBC Studios invested portfolio of indie production companies. Credits to date include: BAFTA nominated “The Durrells” for ITV and Masterpiece, the highly acclaimed “SS-GB” for the BBC, Neil Gaiman’s “Likely Stories” for Sky, Faustian thriller “Ragdoll” for AMC/Alibi and the BAFTA and Peabody-winning and Emmy® and Golden Globe®-nominated “Killing Eve” for BBC America. Recent productions include Gotham award nominated dark comedy “Rain Dogs” for BBC/HBO and the RTS award winning and BAFTA nominated “Extraordinary” for Disney+/Star.
Sid Wild Films Ltd.

Sid Wild Films Ltd.

Sid Wild was set up in 2022 in Bristol and led by Producer Ciara McIlvenny, with close creative and production ties to Sid Gentle Films Ltd. It is committed to producing original, innovative and entertaining shows with an international appeal. Building on the success of the BBC/HBO production Rain Dogs, Sid Wild will support and strengthen the television creative sector outside of London, drawing on the vast wealth of talent and experience, superb locations and infrastructure that the region has to offer.
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Extraordinary
Extraordinary

Extraordinary

Extraordinary is a comedy series from new talent Emma Moran which follows Jen, a young, self-aware woman who lives in a world where everyone has a superpower... except her. Extraordinary is a fresh, innovative comedy about being young and finding your feet in a confusing world, when all you’ll ever be is ‘ordinary’. It is a celebration of the anti-superhero, giving people permission to embrace their general okay-ness. In 2024, the show received 3 BAFTA nominations, including Best Scripted Comedy, and it won the RTS Scripted Comedy Award. It stars BAFTA Nominees Máiréad Tyers and Sophia Oxenham, as well as Bilal Hasna and Luke Rollason.
Rain Dogs

Rain Dogs

From the bold new writer, Cash Carraway, Rain Dogs is an unconventional familial love story following a working-class single mum trying to raise her 10 year old daughter on the poverty line. The series follows their relationships with each other, as well as with a privileged gay man recently out of prison and a friend working at a funeral home. Starring Daisy May Cooper, Jack Farthing, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo and Fleur Tashjian, Rain Dogs is about dysfunction, art, love, poverty and trying to go straight in a crooked world. It was nominated at the 2023 Gotham Awards, RTS Awards, and won two RTS West of England Awards. The series was directed by Richard Laxton and Jennifer Perrott.

Ragdoll

Ragdoll

A dark, imaginative, stylish take on the forensic procedural, Ragdoll follows DS Rose, DI Baxter and DS Lake Edmunds as they pursue a twisted, imaginative serial killer who has dismembered six people and sewn them into a grotesque ‘ragdoll’. As the detectives follow the trail, and the killer begins to taunt them, we see more and more of their flawed characters and fucked up relationships. The series, written by Freddy Syborn, stars Thalissa Teixeira, Lucy Hale and Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and was directed by Toby MacDonald and Niall MacCormick.
Killing Eve

Killing Eve

Killing Eve is a pitch black, cat-and-mouse spy thriller starring Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw and Kim Bodnia. Written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emerald Fennell, Suzanne Heathcote, Laura Neal, Kayleigh Llewellyn and a host of other talented writers, the series was nominated for 169 awards across 4 seasons, including winning the 2019 BAFTA for Best Drama Series and the 2019 Peabody Award. It was also nominated for numerous Golden Globes, Emmys and RTS Awards. It was adapted from novellas by Luke Jennings, and also featured actors such as Adeel Akhtar, Anjana Vasan, Harriet Walter and Camille Cottin.
The Durrells

The Durrells

Based on Gerald Durrell’s iconic Corfu Trilogy, The Durrells sees Louisa uproot her family from Bournemouth to the idyllic Corfu in search of a happier, sunnier life. Written by Simon Nye, the series follows the family and their many unusual acquaintances in their new magical life. Featuring Keeley Hawes and Josh O’Connor, the series was nominated for numerous awards across its beloved run, including 4 BAFTAs, 4 BAFTA Craft Awards and 3 RTS Awards. It included directors such as Steve Barron and Roger Goldby and its cast featured Milo Parker, Callum Woodhouse, Daisy Waterstone, Yorgos Karamihos, Anna Savva, Miles Jupp and the legendary Leslie Caron. The series has become something of a classic amongst global audiences, still regularly featuring in Netflix’s ‘Trending’ charts.

Likely Stories

Likely Stories

Likely Stories is a four-part adaptation of the fantastical stories by Neil Gaiman. It consists of four standalone episodes, written by Kevin Lehane and Ian Forsyth & Jane Pollard, and aired on Sky Arts. The anthology featured George Mackay, Denise Gough, Johnny Vegas, Paul Ritter and many more. In 2016 it was nominated at the RTS Awards.
SS-GB

SS-GB

SS-GB, written by Neal Purvis and Rob Wade, is a parallel-history thriller, imagining the UK in 1941 if Nazi Germany had won the Battle of Britain. Based on the bestselling novel by Len Deighton, the series follows Douglas Archer, a murder detective, as his apolitical and wearied worldview is rocked by a new murder investigation. The series was directed by Phillip Kadelbach, and starred Sam Riley, Kate Bosworth and James Cosmo. It was nominated for at the BAFTA Craft, RTS and Ivor Novello Awards.
Journal

Journal

Nº79

We’re delighted to announce Extraordinary 2 has been nominated in the Returning Comedy-Drama Series category at the C21 International Drama Awards!

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Extraordinary 2 has been nominated for two Televisual Bulldog Awards!

We’re thrilled to be nominated in this year’s Comedy and Editing categories. 

Be sure to vote for us using the link below. Voting closes at the end of November.

https://www.televisual-bulldogs.com/

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Extraordinary Season 2 wins the Venice TV Award!

Extraordinary 2 won the Best Comedy category at the 2024 Venice TV Award. We are thrilled! A huge congratulations to Emma Moran and everyone who worked so brilliantly on the second series!

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NETFLIX UK GIVES LIFE TO BESTSELLING NOVEL HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY, WITH SERIES STARRING ANYA TAYLOR-JOY SID GENTLE FILMS LTD TO PRODUCE. EPS ARE SALLY WOODWARD GENTLE, LIZZIE RUSBRIDGER AND LEE MORRIS. EMMA MORAN IS LEAD WRITER AND EP. TAYLOR-JOY ALSO SERVES AS EP ON BEHALF OF HER COMPANY LADYKILLER PRODUCTIONS INC.

Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa, Dune, The Queen’s Gambit) is set to star as murderous Grace Bernard, protagonist extraordinaire in How To Kill Your Family, a Netflix series thrillingly inspired by Bella Mackie’s best-selling novel of the same name. The eight parter, announced at Edinburgh TV Festival, will be a first production for Netflix from Sid Gentle Films Ltd (Killing Eve) with Emma Moran (Extraordinary) at the helm as lead writer. The novel itself has sold over 1.2 million copies since its debut in 2021.

Quote from Anya Taylor-Joy: “As soon as I turned the last page, I knew I had to be a part of bringing this story to life. After some (light) stalking of the inimitable Bella Mackie, I could not be more thrilled to be collaborating with the team that is Sally, Lizzie and Emma. I am looking forward to getting our hands even dirtier.”

Quote from Bella Mackie: “It’s been thrilling to watch the characters I wrote take on new life under this magnificent creative team. Anya is the most perfect fit to play Grace: I often think she understands her better than I do. Pairing up with Sid Gentle has been joyful, and introducing me to Emma has made me supremely confident the book is in safe hands.”

Quote from Emma Moran: "I felt an immediate kinship with Grace. She’s the kind of complicated, dark, but utterly hilarious anti-hero you dream of writing. Striking that balance between camp fun and brutal violence that Bella hits so perfectly in the book is a challenge I’m so looking forward to. I’ve never had more fun on a project with such a high body count."

Quote from Sally Woodward Gentle: “I couldn't be more thrilled by our team. Emma Moran is a magical talent with a unique voice and the excitement is already palpable in the writers’ room as Anya, Lizzie and the team explore Bella's rip-roaring, takes no prisoners, satirically pitch-black novel. This series can promise more twists and darker crimes as we go deeper into Grace and the characters around her. Anya is a fantastic collaborator and couldn't be a more perfect actor to inhabit Grace - sophisticated, multi-layered, dangerously funny and desperately intuitive.”

Quote from Mona Qureshi, Director of Scripted Series, Netflix: “We are delighted to be embarking on such a fun and wild adventure, with our fabulous partners at Sid Gentle, and the extraordinary and rare talents that are Anya Taylor-Joy and Emma Moran lighting up the path. Bella Mackie has given us a brilliantly modern anti-hero in Grace, whose darkly humorous quest for revenge will take a scythe through British society as she sets about picking off the family that has wronged her. It is hard to imagine a more dazzling Grace than Anya - and we cannot wait to bring this to our Netflix members.”

Further auspices and cast will be announced in due course.

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Sit Rep from Sid Gentle!

We’re delighted to announce the expansion of Sid’s production presence in the UK with new development and production arm, Sid Wild. The company will be based in Bristol with Development Producer Ciara McIlvenny, producer of Rain Dogs, at the helm. With the ambition to work with an even wider slate of talent, Sid Wild will offer genuine investment outside of London while continuing Sid Gentle’s remit – to work with the most original, inventive and entertaining storytellers.

Meanwhile, an update on our productions – we’re keeping busy with both Extraordinary and Rain Dogs in post-production, set to hit screens next year. We can’t wait for you to see them.

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Production on Rain Dogs, from the brilliant new voice of Cash Carraway and starring Daisy May Cooper, has started filming in Bristol. HBO will join BBC as co-producers on the eight-episode series from Sid Gentle Films Ltd (Killing Eve).

Rain Dogs is a wild and punky tale of a mother’s love for her daughter, of deep-rooted and passionate friendships, and of brilliance thwarted by poverty and prejudice. Told with a dark lick of humour and an anarchic attitude, Rain Dogs stars Daisy May Cooper (This Country, Am I Being Unreasonable, Witchfinder) as Costello Jones, Jack Farthing (Spencer, The Lost Daughter, Chloe) as Selby, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo (Alex Rider, Chevalier, Doctor Who) as Gloria Duke and Fleur Tashjian in her debut role as Iris Jones. They are our four glorious Rain Dogs; a makeshift swaggerous family fed on defiance and chaos, and a deep but complicated love.

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Happy New Year! And what a year we have ahead of us.

We finished filming on the final series of Killing Eve, which will be broadcast in the US on February 27th and in UK soon after. We’ve been working on this series for a while now and are itching to share it with you all.

Before Christmas, we started filming on Extraordinary written by Emma Moran, one of the first UK commissions for Disney+’s new channel, Star. Filming continues in London over this winter, with an amazing cast of exciting new talent and the brilliant Toby MacDonald directing.

And later this year we will start filming in Bristol on Rain Dogs, written by Cash Carraway and starring Daisy May Cooper. A new city for us and a new challenge.

So 2022 is looking like a busy year for us here at Sid.

Watch the trailer for Killing Eve season 4 here: https://twitter.com/KillingEve/status/1475851535024156675

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Ragdoll has a release date!

Ragdoll will premiere in the US on AMC on November 11th, and then soon after in the UK on Alibi. We can’t wait for everyone to be introduced to Baxter, Rose and Edmunds and the world of the Ragdoll.

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Killing Eve season three wins a Rockie Award.

Killing Eve has won the Best Drama category at the Rockie Awards. We always love being a part of the Rockies and were delighted to win in the Best Drama: English Language category this year. Let’s hope we’ll be invited back once more, for Killing Eve’s final season.

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New Commission!

The BBC have greenlit our untitled series with Cash Carraway. A wild and punky tale of being trapped below the poverty line and doing everything it takes to escape. We’re delighted to be working with Cash to bring this story to life and thrilled to announce that Daisy May Cooper is attached to star.

The show focusses on a young working class single mum (Cooper) living with her ten year old daughter in the brutal lonely landscape of austerity Britain. Told with a dark lick of humour and an anarchic attitude, the series skewers stereotypes of what it means to be working class and underlines the importance of love, dreams and friendships. 

Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris will executive produce, and our Head of Development, Henrietta Colvin, will serve as Associate Producer.

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Ragdoll has started filming

Filming has begun on Ragdoll, a darkly witted thriller adapted for television by Freddy Syborn, from the novel by Danny Cole. Starring Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Thalissia Teixeira and Lucy Hale, Ragdoll is a funny, gruesomely imaginative serial killer thriller that will both make you laugh and keep you up at night.

Six people have been murdered, dismembered and sewn into the shape of one grotesque body — nicknamed the ‘Ragdoll’. Assigned to the shocking case are DS Nathan Rose (Lloyd-Hughes), recently reinstated to the London Met; his best friend and boss, DI Emily Baxter (Teixeira); and the unit’s new recruit, DC Lake Edmunds (Hale). The ‘Ragdoll Killer’ taunts the police by sending them a list of his next victims, with Rose’s name among them. And with those victims to protect, our heroes soon come under intense public scrutiny.

Ragdoll was commissioned by AMC and Alibi for UKTV, and distributed by BBC Studios.

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We are delighted to announce that Extraordinary, a daring and innovative comedy by Emma Moran, has been greenlit by Star on Disney+. It’s a joy to be working on this show with Emma, who was brought to our attention in 2019 when she won Thousand Films with this very script.

Extraordinary follows Jen, a young woman who lives in a world where everyone has a superpower… everyone except her. Which is sodding great. It’s about being young and finding your way in the world, when all you’ll ever be is ‘ordinary’.

Extraordinary will be executive produced by Sally Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris and Charles Dawson.

Nº67

Development Announcement

We’re thrilled to announce that Sid Gentle is currently working on a television adaptation of the cult horror sensation, Ginger Snaps. Anna Ssemuyaba, one of Deadline’s Top Ten UK rising stars of 2020, will act as the lead writer for the series. We’re delighted to have her turn her hand to this subversive and darkly comic tale of teenage sisterhood.

Gingersnaps will be executive produced by our own Sally and Lee, alongside Clark Peterson and Copperheart’s Steve Hoban, producer of the three Ginger Snaps films. John Fawcett, co-creator and director of the original film, will also executive produce.

Subverting usual conventions and setting the benchmark for leading female horror characters, Ginger Snaps is featured on Time Out’s Best Horror Films of All Time and has been described as ‘the best teen werewolf film ever made’ for it’s unflinching feminist critique of the horror genre. Ginger Snaps has an incredible legacy and we’re looking forward to being a part of it.

Nº65

The Sid Gentle team are still working from home.

This summer has been a strange change of pace for everyone here, though we’ve all enjoyed snatching moments to potter around the garden and taking the time to make ourselves a proper lunch. While at home we’ve been working hard on the next series of Killing Eve and many other exciting projects that we have in the pipeline. We can’t wait to share those all with you over the next year.

If you’re having issues contacting us with the office closed, please email in at info@sidgentle.com or call us on 02070342660 and leave a message with our automated answering service.

Dreaming of Itsu lunches and chatty tea breaks,

The Sid Gentle Team x

Nº64

Sid Gentle are now working from home.

For the last two weeks, Sid Gentle have been working from home to protect our staff and those we come into contact with. We’re very much enjoying our morning Zoom meetings and seeing all our colleagues padding about in their slippers. However, we’re also working really hard to create cheerful, colourful and bold programmes to brighten these scary and, frankly, often dreary days.

If you’re having problems contacting us, the best thing to do is to send an email to info@sidgentle.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Take care,

The Sid Gentle Team

xxx

Nº63

Killing Eve Masterclass at the Radio Times Festival.

If you’re interested in finding out a bit more about how we make Killing Eve, look no further. Our creative team will be holding a panel and Q&A about the making of the show at the Radio Times Festival next month. It will be held at the BFI, the afternoon of Saturday 18th April. On the panel will be Sally Woodward Gentle (Executive Producer), Damon Thomas (Director and Executive Director), Suzanne Heathcote (Lead Writer on Killing Eve Season Three and Executive Producer), and Cat Grieves (Music Supervisor). Tickets go on sale on Tuesday 10th March on the BFI website.

They’ll be talking music, and costumes, and all things fashionably villainous!

Nº62

Laura Neal is announced as the Lead Writer on Killing Eve Season Four!

We’re absolutely delighted to have Laura Neal, who also wrote on the Third Season of Killing Eve, as our new Lead Writer and as an Executive Producer for the next instalment of Killing Eve.

“Laura is frighteningly bright, takes no prisoners and can laugh at anything. She’s wicked and wild, emotional and provocative. The
stories we are already creating for season four promise a pitch-black riot.” – Sally Woodward Gentle

Nº61

Development News!

Sid Gentle is developing ‘Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto For Change’ by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi for television. ‘Taking Up Space’ is the flagship publication of Stormzy’s Penguin imprint, #Merky Books.

We are delighted to be working on this extraordinary manifesto for hope with Chelsea and Ore. The world they illuminate is full of potential for creating bold and breakthrough characters in a setting few have seen. This is really exciting.

Nº60

Development news!

We are currently developing Mankillers, a pitch-black, action-packed story loosely based on legends of Amazonian warrior women.

The wonderful writer Kirstie Swain is attached and has finished a pilot script for the series. Kirstie’s previous credits include Channel 4’s Pure and BBC Three’s Clique.

Nº59

Development news!

Sid Gentle has acquired the rights to Arne Dahl’s latest detective novel, Watching You, and are working with Vivienne Harvey (Harlots, The Indian Detective) adapting it for television.

 The novel tells the story of Stockholm-based detective, Sam Berger, and his attempts to find a serial killer following the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl. As the case unravels, it reveals sinister connections with Berger’s own life.

Nº58

Last month we wrapped filming on Killing Eve season 3.

As ever, we feel incredibly lucky to get to work with such a dedicated cast and crew. They are bloody marvellous. Thank you to everyone who made season three so special.

Now we just can’t wait for everyone to see it!

Nº57

Fantastic news today. Killing Eve has been nominated for Best Television Series at the Golden Globes and Jodie Comer has been nominated for Best Actress for her portrayal of Villanelle.

Nº56

This week we’re announcing the release of soundtracks for Killing Eve Seasons One and Two, available to purchase on 13th December. We’re lucky enough to work with some amazing musicians – especially the sensational David Holmes of The Unloved – and we can’t wait for the chance to showcase their work.

Looks like that’s everyone’s Christmas presents sorted and it’s only October!

Nº55

Sid Gentle have been talking to ScreenSkills about our support for the scheme and the training we’ve provided through Killing Eve.  ScreenSkills helps place industry trainees with productions, bringing through the next generation of behind the camera talent. To read more about Sid Gentle’s involvement with ScreenSkills and how we’ve benefitted from the incredible training it facilitates, click on the link below:

https://www.screenskills.com/insight/case-studies/the-screenskills-killing-eve-story/

Nº54

Killing Eve has been nominated for the National Television Awards for Best Drama and Best Performance for both Jodie and Sandra. It’s always a delight to be a part of the National Television Awards and we’d love. You can vote for Killing Eve and our incredible lead actresses using the link below.

VOTE: https://nationaltvawards.com/vote

Nº53

What an amazing night! We couldn’t be more thrilled for Jodie Comer on her Emmy win for Outstanding Lead Actress in Killing Eve.

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Sid Gentle at the Edinburgh Television Festival

It was a great week for Killing Eve at the Edinburgh Television festival this month, winning Best International Drama at the Edinburgh Television Awards. We also want to thank everyone who came to the Killing Eve Masterclass, it was wonderful to see everyone’s enthusiasm for the show and for television production.

In other exciting news, the winner of  Thousand Films was announced at the festival. The award went to Emma Moran for her pilot script,  ‘Extraordinary’. A huge congratulations to Emma whose script was selected from nearly 2000 entries.

Nº51

Production begins on Killing Eve 3

Production has begun for the third season of Killing Eve. Alongside our Emmy nominated returning cast, we’re delighted to welcome Harriet Walter and Danny Sapani to the fold. Here’s to another year of murder and mischief!

Nº50

Emmy nominations announced for Killing Eve

Killing Eve has been nominated for a phenomenal NINE Emmy Awards. A huge congratulations to everyone nominated and to everyone who worked tirelessly on the second series.

Outstanding Drama Series

Outstanding Lead Actress: Sandra Oh

Outstanding Lead Actress: Jodie Comer

Outstanding Supporting Actress: Fiona Shaw

Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: Lisa Brullmann

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series: Emerald Fennell

Outstanding Single Camera Editing for a Drama Series: Dan Crinnion

Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Programme

Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series: Suzanne Crowley and Gilly Poole

Nº49

Killing Eve is back on 8th June on BBC One at 9.15pm. The entire series will also be available on BBC iPlayer from the 8th.

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We were absolutely delighted to win Best Drama at the BAFTA TV Awards for Killing Eve. Congratulations to the sensational Jodie Comer and Fiona Shaw for winning Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Thank you BAFTA!

Nº47

Killing Eve wins Best Original Music and Best Sound at the BAFTA Craft Awards.

Congratulations to all involved!

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Killing Eve has been renewed for a third season by BBC America.

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Killing Eve has been nominated for a fantastic 15 BAFTA Awards, including…

Best Drama Series

Best Actress: Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh

Best Supporting Actress: Fiona Shaw

Best Supporting Actor: Kim Bodnia

Best Directing

Best Writing

Best Costume Design

Best Editing

Best Photography and Lighting

Best Sound Design

Best Original Music

Best Production Design

Best Titles and Graphic Identity

Must See Moment

Congratulations to our wonderful team!

Nº43

Congratulations to Jodie Comer on her Best Actress win at the Royal Television Awards for Killing Eve!

Nº42

We’re thrilled to say that Killing Eve has been nominated for Best Drama Series at the Royal Television Society Awards, and both Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh have been nominated for Best Actress.

Nº41

Thousand Films has launched!

We’ve partnered with Thousand Films to discover new female writers. If you are looking for somewhere to submit a script, and don’t already have formal representation, please go to the website below to see if you would be eligible to enter.

Good luck!

www.thousandfilms.co.uk

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Sally, Emerald, Sandra, Jodie and Fiona having a wonderful time at their TCA panel. Season two of Killing Eve coming soon.

Nº39

Killing Eve wins Timeline TV Moment of the Year at the Broadcast Awards, for Villanelle breaking into Eve’s flat. A massive thanks to everyone who voted.

Nº38

Congratulations to Phoebe Waller-Bridge on her Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Long Form Drama

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Sandra Oh with he Critic’s Choice Award for Best Actress in a Drama. What a great night for Sandra and for Killing Eve.

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Killing Eve has picked up two nominations at the National Television Awards, one for Best New Drama and one for Best Performance for Jodie Comer. Vote here: https://www.nationaltvawards.com/vote

Nº35

We couldn’t be happier for the amazing Sandra Oh on her Killing Eve Golden Globe win!

Nº34

New season of Killing Eve will premiere on BBC America on 7th April 2019.

Nº33

Killing Eve has been nominated for Best Drama Series at the Golden Globes, and Sandra Oh has been nominated for Best Actress! Wow!

Nº32

We’re thrilled to say that Killing Eve won Best English Language Programme and Best Actress for Jodie Cromer at the C21 Awards. Congratulations all!

Nº31

Killing Eve has picked up an amazing ten nominations in the Digital Spy Reader Awards, including Best TV Drama, Best Actress for both Sandra O and Jodie Cromer, and Best TV Breakthrough.

Get voting!

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/

Nº30

Sid Gentle Films have been shortlisted for Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards.

Nº29

Today Sid Gentle are supporting the Mark Milsome Foundation. Mark worked with us on The Durrells, and has been sorely missed by all of us who had the pleasure to know him. The Mark Milsome Foundation encourages and supports young people in the British Film and Television industry. If you’d like to donate to the charity, or buy a T-Shirt just like ours, please go to the link below.

Donate

Nº27

C21 nominates Killing Eve for Best English Language Drama Series and Best Casting of a Drama Series.

Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer are nominated for Best Female Performance in a Drama series.

Nº26

Killing Eve wins Outstanding New Program at the TCAs!

Nº25

We are overjoyed, and so proud, that Sandra Oh has been nominated for Best Leading Actress at the Emmys for Killing Eve

Nº24

Killing Eve leads Television Critics Association Awards with 5 nominations!

Nº23

Dan Jones’s original score for SS-GB has been nominated for an Ivors Award.

Nº22

Durrells IV enters pre-production for ITV

Nº21

Killing Eve II has been greenlit!

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Killing Eve will air on BBC 1 and BBC 3 later this year!

Nº19

A very delayed, but very important, update: Leslie Caron and Tchi Tchi win the Palm Dogmanitarian Award at Cannes Film Festival 2017 in recognition of their roles in the ITV drama The Durrells.

Nº18

And we’re rolling! Filming has commenced on BBC America’s all-new eight-part thriller, Killing Eve, penned by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and starring Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy, Sideways) and Jodie Comer (The White Princess, Thirteen). Based on the ‘Villanelle’ novellas by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve follows two fiercely intelligent women — a psychopathic assassin and the woman charged with hunting her down. We can expect this series to be full of sharp humor (Waller-Bridge’s specialty), originality, and high stakes action. Killing Eve is filming on locations including Paris, Tuscany, Berlin and London and will debut on BBC America in 2018.

Also joining Oh and Comer are Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter, True Blood) who plays Carolyn Martens, David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Penny Dreadful) as Eve’s colleague Bill, and Kim Bodnia (The Bridge) as Konstantin. Further cast includes Darren Boyd (Frank Haleton), Sean Delaney (Kenny Stowton), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Elena Felton) and Owen McDonnell (Niko).

Nº17

We are proud to announce that The Durrells (ITV) has been nominated for Best Drama Series at the BAFTA Television Awards 2017.

See full list of nominations here

Nº16

We are proud to announce that The Durrells (ITV) has been nominated for three BAFTA Craft Awards.

The nominations are:

Writer: Drama

Simon Nye

Costume Design

Charlotte Holdich

Titles and Graphics Identity

Alex Maclean

See full list of nominations here

Nº15

A HUGE congratulations to Stevie Herbert for winning best Production Design at the RTS Craft Awards for her work on The Durrells!

We’re thrilled with the outcome and very proud of Stevie and her team.

Here she is giving her acceptance speech last night. Well done, Stevie!

Nº14

We’re delighted to announce that we have been nominated for three RTS Craft & Design Awards. Nominations below.

Design – Titles

Alex Maclean – The Durrells (ITV)

Editing – Drama

Adam Biskupski – Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories (Sky Arts)

Production Design – Drama

Stevie Herbert – The Durrells (ITV)

Nº13

BBC America greenlights Killing Eve by ‘Fleabag’ writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Based the novellas by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve revolves around Villanelle, a psychopathic assassin, and Eve, the woman charged with hunting her down. Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade security services operative whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is an elegant, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. The two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.

The series is described as a combination of brutal mischiefmaking and pathos with sharp humor, originality and highstakes action. Waller-Bridge will serve as showrunner and executive producer, alongside executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris. The series is produced by Sid Gentle Films.

“Killing Eve is a brilliantly fresh take on the cat and mouse thriller from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, a major new talent in television,” said BBC America president Sarah Barnett.

“Underneath the deceptively simple and entertaining surface is a subversive, funny, obsessive relationship between two women, that plays out across some of the most and least glamorous locations imaginable.”

See link here

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We are thrilled to announce we have acquired the rights to Elizabeth Jane Howard’s family saga The Cazalets Chronicles. 

The series of five “Cazalet Chronicles” novels are set between the 1930s and the 50s and chronicle the lives of three generations of the Cazalet family. Sid Gentle Films has acquired the rights to all five books — from “The Light Years” through to the final novel, “All Change,” with the intention of telling the family saga over five seasons.

The deal, negotiated by Woodward Gentle and Howard’s agent Ann Evans at Jonathan Clowes, comes as the novelist’s biography, “Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence” by Artemis Cooper, was published recently by John Murray. Howard’s upcoming children’s book, “The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse,” is soon to be published by Mantle, Pan Macmillan.

Woodward Gentle said: “Elizabeth Jane Howard is an extraordinary writer, a highly skilled storyteller of understatement and deceptive simplicity. The novels are totally addictive with the ability to floor you with their turn of events. They are set in the middle of the 20th century but the themes of love, loss, repression, sex and family ties are shot through with 21st century resonance. I am thrilled that Sid Gentle Films Ltd. has the opportunity to bring this wonderfully epic, family saga to a new generation of drama lovers.”

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Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed Likely Stories brought to life on Sky Arts, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard with score by Jarvis Cocker

A unique series starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham

Likely Stories, a new four-part adaptation for Sky Arts produced by Sid Gentle Films Ltd., is a collection of extraordinary short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman. The series is directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the duo responsible for the multi award winning critically acclaimed Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth.

Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories is an original British drama commission for Sky Arts and will be distributed internationally by Sky Vision.

Iconic Pulp frontman and solo artistJarvis Cockerhas created the score for the four stories, bringing his unique sound to the series. Starring Tom Hughes (The Game), George MacKay (Pride), Johnny Vegas (Moone Boy), Kenneth Cranham (Maleficent) and Rita Tushingham (Doctor Zhivago) with an ensemble cast including Monica Dolan (W1A), Paul Ritter (No Offence), Simon Manyonda (Doctor Who), Johann Myers (Good Cop) and Montserrat Lombard (Ashes to Ashes) playing across all four of the films.

Neil Gaiman said: “Short stories traditionally do not get a lot of love from television. I’m really excited to see what the team are going to do and make with Likely Stories – they’ve given it real thought and it feels like it’s going to be something very, very special.”

Set in London, these four 30-minute short stories will be characteristically dark and strange whilst also drawing on the deftly crafted characters’ human warmth and wit.  Centring on the act of storytelling, viewers will be drawn into Neil’s intricately crafted world that moves seamlessly between reality and fantasy. Neil himself will appear in each film in an unusual way, with subtle nods to his wider work that Gaiman super-fans will be able to spot.

Phil Edgar-Jones, Director of Sky Arts, commented: “I’ve long admired the work of Neil Gaiman. He is a genius storyteller and an exceptional talent, and I’m thrilled to be bringing these adaptations of his work to Sky Arts. Under the British directorial powerhouse of Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Likely Stories is, in true Gaiman style, brilliantly bizarre and unexpected.”

Sally Woodward Gentle, executive producer and CEO of Sid Gentle Films, commented: “Likely Stories is like nothing else on TV, these utterly unique stories demand visual adaptations and we are delighted to be bringing them to Sky Arts. Each film, although self-contained, explores common themes of human consumption, destructive obsession and psychological cannibalism – all told with great humour, humanity and a completely astounding musical score.”

The four adaptations will be Foreign Parts, a story of identity, theghostly tales of Feeders & Eaters and Closing Time and the life-spanning story, Looking For The Girl, with the first three written by Kevin Lehane. The final story, Looking For The Girl, was adapted by the series directors, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

 

Likely Stories is produced by Sid Gentle Films Ltd. for Sky Arts. The executive producers are Sally Woodward Gentle,  Lee Morris and Neil Gaiman, produced by Gina Marsh and co-produced by Hsinyi Liu.

 

For further information, please contact:

Madeleine Chambers

Publicist

+44 7966 994106

Madeleine.Chambers@sky.uk

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About SKY VISION

Sky Vision is the international distribution arm of Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company. Sky Vision represents nearly 4000 hours of quality content from Sky channels and third party programming. The company forms an integral part of Sky’s strategy to grow a broad, international content business spanning broadcasting, production and distribution. Sky Vision works extensively with independent producers and has established development deals with a number of companies including Znak & Jones Productions and Ugly Brother Studios in the U.S., and in the UK with Love Productions, Blast! Films, back2back productions, Spark Media Partners, ACME Films, Chalkboard TV, Hungry Bear Media, Spring Films and Roughcut TV.

About Sid Gentle Films Ltd

Sid Gentle Films Ltd was formed in September 2013 to produce original and innovative television drama and feature films. Led by Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris, Sid Gentle Films Ltd is also producing a major adaptation of the Len Deighton novel SS-GB for BBC One, as well as a new take on Gerald Durrell’s classic Corfu Trilogy, The Durrells for ITV, both of which air in 2016.

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Nº10

We had a very successful Press Screening for The Durrells today. It was lovely to see that cast back together again. Have a look at ITV’s recently released trailer below.

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A snapshot of a fox scurrying by our Spitfire on The Mall last weekend on the set of SS-GB. Thank you Christian.

Nº8

Sid Gentle has won his first award!

Sid not only won Best Old Dog but also Best  in Show at the Kew Midsummer Fete 2015.

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We are thrilled to announce our second commission, Simon Nye’s The Durrells! It is based on Gerald Durrell’s The Corfu Trilogy and will be a six part series for ITV. The announcement was covered on Deadline, Variety and a few others- see links below!

http://deadline.com/2015/06/simon-nye-the-durrells-itv-sid-gentle-sally-woodward-gentle-james-bond-bbc-1201447993/

http://www.seenit.co.uk/simon-nye-to-adapt-gerald-durrells-corfu-memoirs-for-itv/

http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/69949-itv/

http://www.tvbuzer.com/news/the-durrells-commissioned-by-itv-53788

http://variety.com/2015/tv/global/men-behaving-badly-creator-simon-nye-pens-the-durrells-for-itv-1201522949/

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ITV has commissioned The Durrells, a six part drama series written by Simon Nye

“This isn’t a holiday. We are here to live like local people: in joy and togetherness close to nature.”

ITV has commissioned a new six part series, The Durrells, written by acclaimed screenwriter Simon Nye and produced by Sid Gentle Films Ltd.

The Durrells is based upon Gerald Durrell’s classic trilogy of Corfu memoirs including the much loved ‘My Family and Other Animals’.

The story focuses upon Louisa Durrell whose life is in meltdown. Her husband died years ago and his money has all but run out. Her four unruly ‘children’ Larry, Leslie, Margo and Gerry are going off the rails. Gerry, 11, is about to be thrown out of school; Larry is a would-be novelist but the worst estate agent in Bournemouth, and the middle two are hitting adulthood like a car-crash. It is the 1930s, and a woman’s options are limited.

Louisa realises she can carry on struggling, marry someone comfortably off but oppressive, or make a radical change and escape… from a domestic pressure-cooker, British weather, uptight Englishness and narrow horizons. This is a rescue mission to somewhere her family can heal itself before it’s too late.

She tells them she is taking them to Corfu. There is fighting and outright refusal, especially when they find out there is no electricity – how dare she drag them off to a Greek wilderness. But Corfu is cheap, and an untamed paradise.

There are worse places to rescue a family – an island fringed with warm, azure sea, the land teeming with wildlife and offering an abundance of oranges, lemons, olives and kumquats. They discover friendship where they least expect it while they struggle to overcome near poverty, the language barrier and the occasional pang for ‘pudding island’.

But Louisa’s biggest challenges come as ever from within the family. Bright and courageous but realistic, she knows they will bring most of their crises with them, and add a few more. Budding writer Larry hasn’t stepped up to be the man of the house and his cutting sense of humour and lack of filter often creates havoc. Leslie, with a mother complex, is fascinated by guns almost as much as he learns he is fascinated by girls. Margo is a walking bundle of neuroses until feminism stirs; while Gerry is endlessly inquisitive about animals and people. Happy to spend hours staring at beetles on a wall, he can go missing for days on epic nature trails and turns the house into a zoo.

Not that Louisa herself is perfect. She drinks too much and has a temper. She is not too proud to break down and weep. Only in her 40s, she says she is happy to be single, but nobody believes her…

Set in 1935, each of the episodes will be written by Simon Nye (Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This, Just William, Men Behaving Badly). The Durrells will be produced by Sid Gentle Films Limited and executive produced by the company’s founder, BAFTA award winning filmmaker Sally Woodward Gentle (Whitechapel, Any Human Heart, Enid). Sid’s Managing Director Lee Morris (Da Vinci’s Demons, Any Human Heart, The Jury) will also executive produce together with Simon Nye. Christopher Hall (Critical, Dracula, Murder on the Home Front) will produce the series.

“Gerald Durrell’s novels are some of the warmest, wittiest, books of the last century. It is no wonder they are so well loved. It is a real treat to be working on them with the brilliant Simon Nye. I hope that his obvious love of the characters and the material will be hugely infectious,” said Sally Woodward Gentle

ITV’s Director of Drama Steve November and Controller of Drama Victoria Fea have commissioned The Durrells.

“ The Durrells is a rollercoaster, adventure drama,” said Steve. “The characters are struggling with the eternal dilemmas of family life when Louisa sets her heart on moving to Corfu. It’s a unique and engaging drama and we’re delighted to be working with Simon Nye and Sally Woodward Gentle once again,” he added.

Filming will take place in Corfu from September 2015. Details of casting will be announced closer to commencement of filming.

Nº4

SID GENTLE FILMS ANNOUNCES

FIRST DRAMA COMMISSION: SS-GB

 

LONDON Thursday 20th November 2014:SID GENTLE FILMS, the indie founded by award-winning drama producer Sally Woodward Gentle, is working with esteemed writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (SkyFall) on an ambitious new drama adaptation for BBC One, it was announced today. The series is the independent production company’s first commission since it was established at the end of last year.

The new five part thriller, titled SS-GB, is an adaptation of Len Deighton’s intriguing, alternate history novel of the same name. Based on the premise that the Germans won the Battle of Britain, SS-GB takes place in Nazi-occupied London. British Scotland Yard murder detective Douglas Archer works under the SS.  Investigating what appears to be a simple black market murder he is dragged into a much darker and treacherous world where the stakes are as high as the ultimate outcome of the war.  The series poses the question of what would you do when faced with the choice of collaboration or joining a brutal resistance.

The series has been adapted for TV by one of the UK’s most successful writing partnerships in Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The duo has previously penned five James Bond films including The World Is Not Enough, Casino Royale and Skyfall.

Announcing the new commission, founder and CEO of SID GENTLE FILMS, Sally Woodward Gentle, said: “I set up Sid Gentle Films so that I could work on projects I felt truly passionate about with some of the best creative talent in the industry. SS-GB is a shining example of that – with world renowned writers working on an iconic title. It’s hugely exciting to have such quality on board for our very first commission.”

Purvis and Wade added: “Len Deighton’s SS-GB is a brilliant tale of espionage that dares to think the unthinkable, and we are very excited to be adapting it for television.”

Nº3

All of us here at Sid are very excited about an announcement that will be happening over the next few days. So watch this space!

Nº1

LONDON Thursday 5th December 2013: Award-winning drama producer Sally Woodward Gentle has set up a new independent production company, SID GENTLE FILMS LTD. The new indie is already in development on a number of new drama projects.

SID GENTLE FILMS has been set up to produce high end scripted drama productions, long-running returning series, one-off features and mini-series for UK and international broadcasters as well as developing a selection of independent feature film projects.

Woodward Gentle, the former Carnival Films Creative Director, takes the helm and is joined immediately by Henrietta Colvin as Head of Development and early next year by Managing Director Lee Morris.

Projects currently in development are an ambitious adaptation for BBC One by one of Britain’s most successful screenwriting partnerships, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The duo have previously penned five James Bond films from The World Is Not Enough to Skyfall. The new company is also working with acclaimed screenwriters Ben Court and Caroline Ip (May Day, Whitechapel) on a big budget, original supernatural thriller also for the BBC.

In addition, SID GENTLE FILMS is also in discussion with other broadcasters about the development of a slate of original dramas.

For further information please contact: Premier
→ Cristina Dunn 020 7292 6469
→ Christina Joyce 020 7292 8352
People

People

Sally Woodward Gentle

CEO

Sally Woodward Gentle is the multi award winning executive producer of dramas such as the BAFTA award winning Any Human Heart, BAFTA and Peabody winning, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Killing Eve and the Royal Television Society award winning Extraordinary.

She formed Sid Gentle Films Ltd in September 2013 to produce original and innovative television drama and feature films.

Prior to Sid, Sally was Creative Director of Carnival Films. In 2010 she appeared in Broadcast’s Power List for women in film and television. With Sally at its creative helm, Carnival won Indie of the Year at the 2011 Televisual Bulldog Awards and Best Indie at the 2012 Broadcast Awards. There she produced shows such as the award winning Whitechapel and David Nicholl’s acclaimed The 7.39.

Before joining Carnival, Sally was the Creative Director for BBC Drama Production following a year as Acting Head of In-House Drama. Prior to that she was Head of Development for all BBC drama. While at the BBC she worked across a range of high profile output including Tipping the Velvet, Cambridge Spies, Waking the Dead, the first series of the new Dr Who, Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart Mysteries, and the HBO co-production, The House of Saddam. She was also at the centre of a remarkable run of new dramas on BBC Four including the BAFTA nominated film Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

Sally was formerly Managing Director of Kudos where she helped originate and executive produce BAFTA nominated drama series Psychos created by David Wolstencroft for Channel 4. She continued the relationship with David Wolstencroft and oversaw the development of Spooks before leaving for the BBC.

Since being part of Sid, Sally has executive produced the critically acclaimed and ITV ratings hit The Durrells as well as Sky Arts equally highly acclaimed Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories. Sally is also executive producer of SS-GB, the Purvis and Wade (Bond screenplay writers) adaptation of Len Deighton’s classic thriller for BBC One. She was executive producer on AMC’s award nominated Ragdoll and both seasons of the highly acclaimed, award winning, 100% fresh Extraordinary for Disney+.

Sally was given the Royal Television Society Fellowship in 2019 and won the Gracie Award for Best Producer in 2021.

Lee Morris

Managing Director

Lee is a BAFTA and Peabody award winning, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated producer.

Most recently, Lee executive produced the first two seasons of the award winning Disney+ comedy Extraordinary and the acclaimed HBO/BBC mini-series Rain Dogs.

He executive produced all seasons of the global hit Killing Eve as well as all four seasons of the internationally popular The Durrells in Corfu. He also served as executive producer on SS-GB, the Purvis and Wade adaptation of Len Deighton’s classic alternate history novel for BBC, Ragdoll (AMC/UKTV) and the critically acclaimed Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories (Sky Arts).

Prior to that, Lee produced many high profile dramas including the BAFTA award winning Any Human Heart (Masterpiece/C4), Peter Morgan’s The Jury (ITV), and the award winning Enid starring Helena Bonham Carter (Carnival/BBC). He was co-producer on the feature film The Damned United (Sony Pictures), as well as producing My Zinc Bed and A Number (both for HBO/BBC Films). He was also an executive producer on David S. Goyer’s Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz/BBCW/FOX), setting up the show and working on the first two seasons.

Earlier in his career, Lee worked in-house at the BBC where he was responsible for the physical production of several major mini-series including The Lost World, The Long Firm, Daniel Deronda, Archangel and The Sins. He started his career in the floor management department at the BBC’s  Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham. He soon moved into drama, gaining experience in various roles, from  runner to associate producer, on shows such as Dangerfield, All Quiet on the Western Front and the highly acclaimed Martin Chizzlewit.

He is executive producer on the forthcoming Netflix drama How to Kill Your Family, starring Anya Taylor-Joy.

Henrietta Colvin

Director of Development

Before joining Sid Gentle Film Ltd. in November 2013 Henrietta was Head of Development at Carnival Films.

After graduating with a history degree from Manchester University, Henrietta worked in publishing at Random House before moving to the renowned literary agent Judy Daish. From here she went to Channel Four where she worked for the Head of Drama, Gub Neal. She then went to BOX TV as development assistant. Her first script editing job was on The Bill for TalkbackThames/ITV. From there she went to the BBC as a script editor. She returned to TalkbackThames as Development Executive and was later promoted to Head of Development before moving to Carnival. At Sid Henrietta has worked across The Durrells, Likely Stories, Killing Eve, Ragdoll and Rain Dogs.

Helen Dudley

Commercial Director

Helen joined Sid in 2022 as Head of Business Affairs and is now Commercial Director. She was previously VP, Scripted Business Affairs at NBCUniversal, head of the scripted business affairs team at Objective Media Group and spent a number of years at Channel 4 handling commercial and contractual matters for Drama and Scripted Comedy. She was also a business affairs consultant for various scripted production companies. Some of the shows she has worked on include seasons 2 of The Capture and Feel Good, The State, Derry Girls and The Tiger who Came to Tea. Helen began her career in non-scripted working across Entertainment and Specialist Factual at Channel 4 and later worked in production at Nutopia and Darlow Smithson Productions.

Anna Bowsher

Business Affairs Manager

Anna joined the team at Sid Gentle Films in March 2020 as Business Affairs Manager.

Before this, she trained and qualified as a solicitor into the Film & TV department of leading media law firm Lee & Thompson LLP, where as an Associate she advised a range of clients, from independent producers to SVOD platforms and financiers, across all aspects of film and television development, funding, production and distribution. Productions she has advised on include Years and Years, The Romanoffs, Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and the academy nominated Cold War by Paweł Pawlikowski.

Since joining Sid, Anna has worked on Killing Eve, Extraordinary, Ragdoll and Rain Dogs, as well as a wide range of exciting projects in development.

Ellie P.

Business Affairs Manager

Ellie joined Sid Gentle Films in July 2022 as Business Affairs Manager. She previously worked in development and production Legal & Business Affairs roles for Universal International Studios, Lookout Point, and ITV Studios across a range of UK scripted and non-scripted productions including, Dodger, Everyone Else Burns, Hanna S3, Gentleman Jack S1, Les Misérables, A Suitable Boy, Last Tango in Halifax S5, Press, Vera, Dark Heart, Trauma, Prime Suspect 1973, Thunderbirds Are Go, Tonight at the London Palladium, Dress to Impress and Love Island: Aftersun. Ellie completed her training contract whilst working in-house as a paralegal in the Legal & Business Affairs Department at the videogames publisher Square Enix Limited.

Pat Lees

Head of Production

Pat joined Sid Gentle Films as head of production in 2022 after working as a freelancer in the Film and TV industry for over 25 years in the UK and abroad. Drama credits include Ragdoll, Us, The Durrells, Apple Tree Yard, and Angela Black along with TV comedies such as Outnumbered, Spitting Image, and Ambassadors. Pat started her career at Thames Television working at Teddington and Euston Studios.

Christine Hagon

Head of Finance

Having started out in private practice, Christine went on to have an extensive career as a Production Accountant before joining Sid Gentle Films as Head of Finance in 2022. Christine has worked both in the UK and abroad including Russia when she worked for Central Television's joint venture company (The Association), to enable filming there. Her drama and comedy credits include Father Ted, Law and Order, Low Winter Sun, Episodes, and The Durrells.

Amber Cowan

Production Manager

Amber joined Sid in March 2021 as Production Manager. She graduated with an LLM Masters of Entertainment Law from the University of Westminster. She began her career in Canada, working on shows such as FX Network’s Fargo S2 & S3 and Apple TV’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. She moved to the UK in 2018, and took a brief detour into sports. She Production Managed the ATP men’s world tennis tour show ATP Uncovered, which spanned over 64 tournaments in 31 countries.

Stephanie Zarilho

Production Coordinator

Stephanie graduated from the University of the Arts London in 2018 with First Class Honours in Film and Television. After graduation, she gained production experience at Working Title Films before joining Carnival Films in 2019 as an in-house Production Runner, where she worked across productions including The Last Kingdom 4 and Belgravia. Stephanie joined Sid Gentle in April 2021 as a production assistant and now works as a Production Coordinator within the Sid Gentle production team.

Lizzie Rusbridger

Executive Producer

Lizzie is a BAFTA award-winning producer who joined Sid as an Exec Producer in 2021. She started out at Left Bank Pictures as a development assistant, getting her first experience of script editing on The Halcyon for ITV, and leaving to script edit the first series of Gangs of London. She has worked as a story producer on, among others, The Rook for AMC, The Night Manager 2 for BBC, and The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself for Netflix. Her first producing gig was in Malaysia, for the BBC's Our Girl, before moving on to Lennie James's Save Me Too for Sky, which won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series in 2021. She first worked with Sid Gentle on AMC/Alibi's Ragdoll in 2021 as a freelance producer and came in-house on wrap. She is an executive producer on the forthcoming Netflix drama How to Kill Your Family, starring Anya Taylor Joy.

Ciara McIlvenny

Development Producer

Ciara has over 25 years experience in drama as a Producer, Story Producer and Script Editor. In 2023 she Produced RAIN DOGS in Bristol for Sid Gentle, and now heads up their regional office Sid Wild.

Prior to that, she was Story Producer on Sharon Horgan’s BAFTA winning BAD SISTERS for APPLE TV. Ciara has script edited many shows over the years for multiple broadcasters and streamers including; Channel 5’s hugely popular remake of ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, BAPTISTE and MURPHY’S LAW for BBC, WILD AT HEART for ITV, SELECTION DAY for Netflix India, to name a few.

Ciara cut her teeth on long running drama as a Script Editor and then a Producer on THE BILL. She was also part of the producing team on CASUALTY and her first ever break in TV was with the formidable Lynda La Plante.

Sam Symons

Senior Development Executive 

Sam joined Sid Gentle Films Ltd in 2015 as Script Executive to work across SS-GB and The Durrells as well as other projects on the development slate.  Prior to this she worked at Carnival Films as a Development Executive developing and editing a raft of original series and serials. Before that she worked at the BBC as a script editor and researcher on Casualty and Holby City. Her credits include Whitechapel, Any Human Heart, Downton Abbey and The Last Weekend.

Fred Weston-Smith

Development Executive

After graduating from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in 2012, Fred has embedded himself in the British Film & Television industry in London. Joining Sid Gentle Films on day one in 2013 as an assistant to Sally Woodward Gentle, Fred has worked his way up the Development ladder within the company. He cut his teeth on Script Editing as an Assistant Script Editor on Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories for Sky Arts followed by four successful seasons of ITV’s The Durrells. He then went on to work on pre-greenlight development of Killing Eve before Script Editing Series Two of the Emmy, Golden Globe and Bafta award winning series.

As a Development Executive at Sid, Fred covers a multitude of drama’s across the Sid slate from early stages directly through the completion of production. He is also passionate about Comedy and Script Edited the award winning Extraordinary for Disney +. With a taste that spans from authentic, thought provoking drama to unexpected laugh-out-loud comedy, Fred is keen on continuing to source and develop innovative, ambitious and compelling television that reaches a global audience.

Sarah Creedy Smith

Development Editor

Sarah started at Sid Gentle as Sally and Lee’s assistant in 2019, before taking up the role of Development Coordinator and now Development Editor. Prior to Sid, she graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Education, English and Drama and then worked as a runner at Independent Talent. In her time at Sid, she has worked closely with the development team on numerous projects across the slate, with a particular interest in comedy. She assistant script edited the second season of the award winning Extraordinary for Disney+, and is currently script editing How to Kill Your Family for Netflix.

Josh Dhillon

Development Assistant

After graduating from the University of Exeter with a degree in English and Film, Josh began his career working in the Accounts department on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and then Loki S2. He joined Sid in May 2022, as a Production Assistant, and now works as a part-time Development Assistant

Debbie Idowu

Production Assistant (Assistant to the CEO and MD)

Debbie graduated from the University of Kent in 2022 with a BA in Architecture. She started working in Film and TV as an Art Department assistant on Sid Gentle’s Ragdoll and then on Extraordinary 2. She also has experience on set and graphic design projects. Debbie began working in-house at Sid in November 2023 as a Production Assistant.
Contact

Contact

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