Stewart Mackinnon
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Occupation | Film producer |
Years active | 1976–present |
Stewart Mackinnon is a Scottish film and television producer, founder and former CEO of
Artist
Mackinnon studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was awarded an Andrew Grant Scholarship before moving to London to attend the Royal College of Art where he won the Drawing Prize and contributed to and co-edited the RCA magazine Ark in the 1970s.[3][4][5]
Mackinnon designed the artwork for the British TV movie
Producer
In the 1970s and 80s Mackinnon directed and produced a number of films including the Brechtian film Because I am King[10][11] and Ends and Means written by Andy McSmith.[12]
Mackinnon went on to found Trade Films
In 1988[21][22] Mackinnon co-founded the Northern Screen Commission with Sir Peter Carr, the North East Media Development Council (NEMDC - a policy forum), the North East Media Development Agency (NEMDA - the operational arm) and the North East Media Training Centre (NEMTC)[23] which also provided a course for deaf students.[24]
Mackinnon went on to found Common Features,[25] which produced films such as This Little Life, winner of the BANFF Award[26] and the Dennis Potter Award.[27][28]
In 2005 Mackinnon founded
In 2020, Mackinnon and Jere Sulivan founded Circle Pictures, a company to produce feature films and television drama.[30]
Selected filmography
- Because I am King (1980, directed by Stewart Mackinnon)
- Ends and Means (1983, directed by Stewart Mackinnon written by Andy McSmith)
- The Miner's Campaign Tapes (1984, co-produced by Stewart Mackinnon) winner of the Grierson Award.
- When the Dog Bites (1988, directed by Penny Woolcock)
- This Little Life (2003, directed by Sarah Gavron) winner of an RTS Award, Dennis Potter Award and BANFF Award.
- Bag of Bones (2011, adapted by Matt Venne from the Stephen King novel)
- Quartet (2012, directed by Dustin Hoffman)
- The Invisible Woman (2013, directed by Ralph Fiennes)
- The Saboteurs(2015, written by Petter S. Rosenlund) and winner of the Prix Italia.
- Peter & Wendy (2015, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and winner of an international Emmy)
- The Man in the high Castle (2015, adapted by Frank Spotnitz)
References
- ^ "Quartet". Box Office Mojo.
- ^ "Stewart Mackinnon". IMDb.
- ^ "Stewart Mackinnon: Ruptured and Remade". Design Observer. 4 December 2011.
- ^ "Manifesto" (PDF). Ark No.51. 1973. p. 6.
- ^ "A Manifesto for Illustration". Visual Communication - Communication Design Department Blog / Glasgow School of Art. 19 January 2010.
- ^ "WAR GAME 1965 Peter Watkins, Kathy Staff, Michael Aspel UK 20x30 POSTER". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Stewart Mackinnon: Ruptured and Remade". Design Observer. 4 December 2011.
- ^ "The other day in publishing history: 'Oz' Underground magazine editors jailed for obscenity, 1971". Past Tense. 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Radical Illustrators" (PDF). Illustrators Magazine. 1981.
- ^ "Because I am King (1980)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018.
- ISBN 978-1474243087.
- ^ "Ends and Means (1983)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018.
- ^ "Trade Films". Companies House.
- ^ "Stewart Mackinnon: Ruptured and Remade". Design Observer. 4 December 2011.
- ^ British Universities Film & Video Council
- ^ "Paul Rotha, 1982". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018.
- ^ "Trade Films". BFI. Archived from the original on 10 June 2018.
- ^ "Northern News Reel no.9". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018.
- ISBN 978-1317756552.
- ^ Stuart Jeffries (12-09-2018) The revolution was televised: why didn’t the radical TV of the 1980s last? The Guardian
- ^ "Chronology of Disability Arts" (PDF). Arts Council England. p. 29.
- ^ "1988 FAQ". Shape Arts.
- ISBN 1134859988.
- ^ "Chronology, Disability Arts 1976-1989". Disability Arts Online. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- ^ Press Office (18-12-2006) Great Ormond St entrusts film & tv rights to Peter Pan In Scarlet to BBC Films, UK Film Council & Headline Pictures BBC Press Office
- ^ (17-06-2004) Film company's prestige award[permanent dead link] The Journal
- ^ Fiona Fraser (31-05-2002) New Common Features production for BBC2 C21
- ^ "This Little Life Awards". IMDb.
- ^ Geoffrey Macnab (03-01-2013) Headline Pictures co-founder Stewart Mackinnon talks to Screen Screen Daily
- ^ Clarke, Stewart (14 November 2019). "'The Man in the High Castle' Producer Stewart Mackinnon Launches Circle Pictures". Variety. Retrieved 24 August 2021.