Christopher Sheppard

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Christopher Sheppard, 2017

Christopher Sheppard is a British film producer and film and television director .

life and career

Sheppard initially worked as a journalist and as a consultant for various UN agencies. He was a co-founder of New Internationalist magazine .

Since 1985 he has produced and shot a number of documentaries and initiated several internet projects. From 1986 to 1992 he produced several low-budget documentaries for television, some of which he also directed. Two of these documentaries, Death Of A Runway (1992) and Child's Eye (1995) were nominated for the Royal Television Society Awards. The film Man-Made Famine with Glenda Jackson as spokeswoman, which was made with the support of New International , depicts the economic situation of women farmers in Africa who generate the majority of agricultural production but hardly receive any support from the respective states or international organizations. From 1992 to 1997 he directed five episodes of the television documentary series Cutting Edge . The series received several BAFTA nominations and awards.

In 1990 he founded the production company Adventure Pictures together with Sally Potter . The first feature film that Adventure Pictures produced was Orlando with Tilda Swinton in the title role, which was nominated for two Academy Awards and won other European film awards. Since then, Potter and Sheppard have produced seven feature films together.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1986: Man-made Famine, documentary film; producer
  • 1986: With These Hands: How Women Feed Africa, documentary; producer
  • 1993: Our House, documentary; Director
  • 1993: Tony and Alan: No Place Like Home, documentary; Director
  • 1993: Searching for Susan, documentary; Producer, director
  • 1993: Orlando ; producer
  • 1995: Road Rag; Producer, director
  • 1996–1997: Cutting Edge, TV documentary series, 5 episodes; Director
  • 1997: The End Is Nigh, documentary; Directed with Robert MacNaughton
  • 1997: The Tango Lesson ; producer
  • 2000: The Man Who Cried ; producer
  • 2005: Yes ; producer
  • 2009: Rage ; producer
  • 2012: Ginger & Rosa ; producer
  • 2017: The Party ; producer
  • 2020: Ways of Life - The Roads Not Taken ( The Roads Not Taken ); producer

Web links

Commons : Christopher Sheppard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Sheppard, Chris Brazier - New Internationalist Editors , New Internationalist, accessed August 9, 2020
  2. ↑ Depot stages Q&A session with film producer Christopher Sheppard Depot, Cinema & More, October 11, 201, accessed on August 11, 2020
  3. ^ The Tango Lesson, cast and crew , sonyclassics.com., Accessed August 10, 2020
  4. ↑ Kathleen Staudt: Woman Farmers in Africa, Research and Institutional Action, 1972–1987. In: Canadian Journal of African Studies, Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines. Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue: Current Research on African Women (1988), pp. 567-582
  5. ↑ Adventure pictures , accessed August 10, 2020
  6. ↑ Christopher Seppard, producer , Sonyclassics, accessed August 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Sheppard, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH before 1985