Billy MacKinnon (film producer)

Billy MacKinnon (* 5. January 1953 in Glasgow as William MacKinnon ) is a British screenwriter , film producer and writer .

life and career

He wrote and produced films such as Sweetie , Small Faces (with his brother Gillies MacKinnon ) and Marrakech . He edited numerous feature film scripts, including Jane Campion's Das Piano, and won several international film awards such as Best British Film in Edinburgh and the Rotterdam Tiger for Best European Film . As a producer and author, he also had two feature films in the official competition in Cannes . His last short film script Elevator - The Lift , directed by Emily Kuhnke, won the Wild Rose Award for Best Screenplay at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival 2013 .

Filmography

• 1989: Sweetie (co-producer, dramaturge)
• 1990: The Last Crop (producer)
• 1993: Das Piano (Dramaturg) (The Piano)
• 1996: Small Faces (screenplay, producer, assistant director)
• 1998: Marrakech (screenplay, assistant director) (Hideous Kinky)
• 1999: Mauvaise passe (dramaturge)
• 2007: Peek-a-boo (screenplay)
• 2009: Wayfaring Stranger (screenplay)
• 2010: Brilliantlove (dramaturge)
• 2012: Elevator - The Lift (short film, screenplay)
• 2015: Dawn (feature film, screenplay)

Web links

• Billy MacKinnon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Billy MacKinnon at Turner Classic Movies (English)
• Monika Maurer: A Quick Chat with Gillies and Billy MacKinnon. In: kamera.co.uk. March 1996, archived from the original on May 11, 2008 . 
• Elevator in the Internet Movie Database (English)