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Colin Leventhal, managing director
Bill Stephens, director of sales
Heather Playford-Denman, film sales manager
Kate Hughes, publicity & marketing executive
Bridget Pedgrift, publicity & marketing executive
Shelley Warnaby, publicity & marketing co-ordinator
Amanda Street, sales & administration co-ordinator
Featured product
Slab Boys (UK) Drama. Dir: John Byrne.
Cast: Robin Laing, Russell Barr, Bill Gardiner. The boys in the paint-mixing room at a carpet factory apply themselves to everything but their jobs. Running time: 97 mins.
Welcome to Sarajevo (UK) Drama. Screening in competiton. Dir: Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Stephen Dillane. Partly based on the true story of an ITN journalist who smuggled an orphan child from Sarajevo back to England. Running time: 100 mins.
Bent (UK) Drama. Screening in Critics' Week. Dir: Sean Mathias. Cast: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Brian Webber. Recounting the fate of three homosexual men during the rise of Nazism.
Running time: 109 mins.
Alive & Kicking (aka Indian Summer) (UK) Drama. Screening. Dir: Nancy Meckler. Cast: Anthony Sher, Jason Flemyng, Dorothy Tutin.
A tender, funny and passionate love story of a gay dancer living positively with Aids. Running time: 98 mins.
A Further Gesture (UK) Drama. Screening. Dir: Robert Dornhelm. Cast: Stephen Rea, Alfred Molina, Sean McGinley. An escaped IRA prisoner on the run in New York becomes caught up in a plot to carry out a political assassination. Running time: 100 mins.
Jump the Gun (South Africa) Drama. Screening. Dir: Les Blair. Cast: Baby Cele, Lionel Newton, Michele Burgers. Follows the tangled lives of six characters in Johannesburg striving to succeed in the new 'rainbow nation'. Running time: 112 mins.
Fever Pitch (UK) Romantic comedy. Screening. Dir: David Evans. Cast: Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmel. A man's obsession with Arsenal football club affects his job, love-life and dress sense. Running time: 100 mins.
The Woodlanders (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Phil Agland. Cast: Rufus Sewell, Jodhi May, Polly Walker. Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel, set in Dorset in the 1870s. Running time: 111 mins.
Food of Love (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Stephen Poliakoff. Cast: Richard E Grant, Nathalie Baye, Juliet Aubrey.
Set in the contrasting worlds of London's urban landscape and an idyllic English village. Running time: 109 mins.
Burning Up (UK) Period drama. Post-production. Dir: Julien Temple. Cast: James Frain, Romane Bohringer, Jim Carter. A tragic love story based on the relationship between Jean Vigo and his wife.
The Croupier (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Clive Owen, Kate Hardie, Nicholas Ball. A story about gamblers and a croupier disenchanted with life.
Martha Meets Frank, Daniel & Laurence (UK) Romantic comedy. Pre-production. Dir: Nick Hamm. Cast: Monica Potter, Tom Hollander, Rufus Sewell. Frank, Daniel and Laurence have been friends as long as they can remember - until Martha enters their lives.
Prometheus (UK) Drama. Pre-production. Dir: Tony Harrison. Cast: tba. Transports its characters through an end-of-millennium Europe.
Orphans (UK) Drama. In production. Dir: Peter Mullan. Cast: Gary Lewis, Gilbert Martin, Douglas Henshall. A powerful matriarch dies; over a stormy night, the family's grief pulls them in different directions.
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