Peter Cattaneo - Director
Peter Cattaneo graduated from the Royal College of Artin 1989. While there he cut his teeth on a music video, which won a SonyPromo Award, a commercial for Miller Lite and an award winning short madein association with Thames TV before moving on to directing whole seriesincluding "Diary Of A Teenage Health Freak," "The Full Wax"and "The Bill." He was also attached to Paul Weiland's Film Companyfor whom he made a number of commercials. In 1959 he directed "Loved Up" a BBC Screen Twofilm starring Ian Hart and Lena Headey. "The Full Monty" is hisfeature film debut.
Uberto Pasolini, Producer Producer Uberto Pasolini sees "The Full Monty"as a story that can be looked at from many levels, but, he explains, itwas the concept of "men trying to cope with a feeling that societydoesn't have a role for them anymore," that particularly interestedhim. "It is also a story that keeps the absurdities of life very muchon the surface, and is about finding new energy, camaraderie and friendship.In a sense, it is a story about regeneration." Pasolini began his film career in 1983 working as assistantdirector on "The Killing Fields." After a stint in the international marketing and distributiondepartments of Twentieth Century Fox he joined David Puttnam's company Enigma,where he spent the next three years working on a number of feature filmsincluding "The Mission" and "The Frog Prince." In 1986 he moved to Los Angles to join Columbia Picturesas Vice President of Production, where he worked with, among others, DavidMamet on "Things Change" and Emir Kusturica on "Time Of TheGypsies." In 1988 he returned to Enigma in London to oversee production.This included working as Associate Producer on Istvan Szabo's "MeetingVenus," and producing "Lawrence -- A Dangerous Man" whichwon the Emmy Award the Best Drama in 1992. In 1991 he left Enigma to set up Redwave Films (UK) Limitedand to start a two year period as a consultant for Columbia Pictures inLondon where he also had a first look development deal. In 1994-95 he produced "Palookaville," financedby American Playhouse and The Samuel Goldwyn Company. The film marked thefilm debuts of the director, Alan Taylor, and the writer, David Epstein,and was extremely well-received by both critics and audiences at the 1995Venice Film Festival, where it won the International Kodak Prize for firstand second features. "Palookaville" was also screened at numerousAmerican film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival in 1995.
Simon Beaufoy, Writer "The Full Monty" is Simon Beaufoy's first featurefilm credit. Another feature, "The Tower Men" (a triangular lovestory about pylon painters in Yorkshire), is in development with Kudos Productions,with Marc Evans slated to direct. Meanwhile, Simon is writing a third, "TheDarkest Light," for his company, Footprint Films, with backing fromBritish Screen. He is currently co-directing "Yellow," a shortfilm co-written with Bille Eltringham.
Beaufoy is a graduate of Bournemouth Film School wherehe produced "Release Me," a half-hour drama featuring a cast ofactors with learning difficulties. The film premiered on BBC2 and went onto win five awards at international film festivals. He subsequently completeda documentary "Shattered Dream" about poet, mountaineer and protestclimber Edwin Drummond for Forty Minutes. Simon has also written a play"Saddam's Arms," about a young boy's attempts to climb the VictoryMonument in Baghdad, while never managing to leave Keighley, Yorkshire.Beaufoy was one of the winners of the Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights'Competition with "Saddam's Arms" and the play will be producedby LBC.
John De Borman B.S.C Director of Photography John de Borman has worked extensively in films, commercialsand music videos. Feature film credits include "Passion Of Darkly Noon,"the award-winning "Small Faces," "Trojan Eddie" starringRichard Having shot award winning commercials all over the world,de Borman has also shot music videos for major artists including Prince,Madonna, Little Richard, KD Lang, the Eurithmics and the Womacks.
Jill Taylor, Costume Designer Jill Taylor's past feature film credits include "Priest,"starring Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle and Cathy Tyson and"Safe," starring Kate Hardie and Aiden Gillen, both directed byAntonia Bird. Her television drama credits include for BBC Screen Oneproductions: "Mill on the Floss," "Meat" featuring "Trainspotting"star Johnny Lee Miller, and "Killing Me Softly." Taylor also designedthe costumes for Peter Cattaneo's "Loved Up" starring Lena Headeyand Ian Hart and "In The Cold Light Of Day," -- another ScreenTwo production for which she won the RTS award for Best Costume Design. Taylor is currently designing the costumes for anotherfeature film starring Robert Carlyle -- "The Face," directed byAntonia Bird.
Max Gottlieb, Production Designer Max Gottlieb's feature film credits include "ID,""Shopping" and "The Turn of the Screw." He also hasa considerable body of TV credits, including the BBC series "No Bananas,"the Screen 2 production "Bad Boyz," "Entrepreneurs"and the TV film "Rules of Engagement." He previously worked withdirector Peter Cattaneo on the Channel Four drama "Say Hello To TheReal Doctor Snide" and the Worlds End production "Dear Rosie."
Anne Dudley, Composer Anne Dudley is a musician, composer, arranger and producer.While working as a session musician and arranger, Anne began to work withTrevor Horn arranging contemporary classics such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood's"Two Tribes," Dudley continues to arrange for artists such as Pulp, TinaTurner and Cathy Dennis. She also has an impressive list of film credits,having composed the original music for "The Crying Game," "Buster,""When Saturday Comes," "The Sadness of Sex," "TheGrotesque" and "Hollow Reed."
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His first script "Cello"about the kidnapping of a musical instrument by a love-lorn football fan,won the Euston Films Best Script Award at the 1991 Fuji Film Competition.His short film "The Frontier" inspired by a summer's yogurt stackingin a Yorkshire supermarket, was commissioned by Channel 4 as part of theseries "He Play, She Play."
Harris and Stephen Rea and most recently,"Photographing Fairies," starring Emily Woof, Toby Stephens andBen Kingley.
ABC's "TheLook of Love" and Malcolm McClaren's "Buffalo Girls." Theirprofessional association led to the foundation of the high-tech Art of Noise,who will be remembered for collaborations with Duane Eddy, Max Headroomand Tom Jones's hit version of "Kiss." She renewed her associationwith Jones when he agreed to record a new version of the Randy Newman classic"You Can Leave Your Hat On" for the final sequence of "TheFull Monty."
