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In the Name of the Father (1993): London Academy
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With more than 35 years of experience in theater, film and television, actor and producer Michael Douglas branched out into independent feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award-winning "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Since then, he has shown a knack for choosing projects that reflect changing trends and public concerns. He has been involved in such controversial and politically influential motion pictures as 1975's Cuckoo's Nest, Academy Award-nominated film "The China Syndrome" (1979) and "Traffic" (2000).
In 1997 James was selected onto the Media Business school’s programme to train European Film and TV executives. In 1998 James was hired by Pagoda Film and Television to produce new talent projects, he was involved with attracting both Paul McGuigan and Paul Bettany to their first breaking film, ‘Gangster No.1’ before going on to shoot his first feature, Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) written and directed by Stewart Sugg and starring Stellan Skarsgård, (Breaking the Waves’, ‘Good Will Hunting’), Chris Penn, (‘Reservoir Dogs’ & ‘Short Cuts’), Paul Bettany, (‘A Beautiful Mind’, ‘Gangster No.1 & ‘Master and Commander’) and Martine McCutcheon in her first film role. The film is currently being released on a worldwide platform. James is on the board of the Film Policy Review group of PACT, the UK producers’ forum. He is ... a tutor at the Media Business School and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA).
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PATERSON JOSEPH trained at the London Academy of Music and Drama and has had an active career in both television and theater. He is best known to British audiences for his part in the popular BBC television series "Casualty."
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Growing up in Warrington, Cheshire, England, legendary stage, television and film actor Pete Postlethwaite escaped the middle-class life by going to college in London. While completing his studies, he became involved in theater.
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Against the political material, the boxing acts as a setting more than a world. We see how hot passions are passed along to a younger generation, how boxing can be a substitute for warfare and (in an almost surrealistic scene in a black-tie private club in London) how the rich pay the poor to bloody themselves.
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