James Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Dublin, Ireland

Irish production company Soho Moon makes high end television drama. The company was set up by James Mitchell.Soho Moon’s track record reflects a commitment to international co-production and collaboration – recent production partners include Facet4 (Canada), Imaginarium Productions (UK), Martange Production (France), Umedia (Belgium), as well as Irish producers Mammoth Films and Saffron Pictures.Soho Moon production credits include:'Acceptable Risk', thriller series written by Emmy winner Ron Hutchinson, directed by Kenny Glenaan, starring Elaine Cassidy and Angeline Ball. International sales DCD Rights. 'Death and Nightingales', based on Eugene McCabe’s classic novel of love, betrayal and revenge, 3 x 1 hours, written and directed by Allan Cubitt (‘The Fall’), starring Emmy winner Matthew Rhys, Jamie Dornan and Ann Skelly for BBC2. International sales Red Arrow.‘Hidden Assets’, Seasons 1 & 2, based on Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau, created by Peter McKenna, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kadir Ferati Balci, starring Angeline Ball, Nora-Jane Noone, Simone Kirby, Wouter Hendrickx, Cathy Belton and Aaron Monaghan. For RTÉ and Acorn TV. International sales DCD Rights.'Vermeer, Beyond Time', “imaginative and sensitive…remarkable” (RTE.ie/culture), a film directed by Jean-Pierre Cottet, narrated by Steve Martin for ARTE and WETA (PBS). International sales ZED.'Citizen Lane', “a must see for Irish culture vultures” (Sunday Times), a film written by Mark O’Halloran, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Michael Gambon for RTE in association with Screen Ireland. International sales Verve Pictures.

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Mitchell founded Little Bird and with business partner Jonathan Cavendish, built one of the most successful independent production companies in Europe. Over the course of some 25 years, Little Bird, based in Dublin, London and Johannesburg, developed and produced some 50 movies, feature documentaries and television dramas. Selected highlights include:Television Drama‘The Irish R.M.’, a classic period series over three seasons (“A rollicking great success” The Standard), international sales Soho Moon; ‘The Writing On The Wall’, thriller mini-series (BBC/WDR) starring Denis Haysbert and William H. Macy; ‘The Hanging Gale’, Irish Famine mini-series (BBC), Golden FIPA Biarritz, and ‘No Tears’, State of the Nation mini-series (RTE), starring Academy Award winner Brenda Fricker, Golden Nymph Monte Carlo.Movies‘December Bride’, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, selected for the Quinzaine des Directeurs at the Cannes Film Festival, won 11 International Awards including Montreal Critics Prize and a FELIX Special Jury Prize at the European Film Awards;‘Into The West’, written by Jim Sheridan, directed by Mike Newell, starring Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin (“a gloriously romantic story of childhood escape” Sunday Independent) and indie US box office hit ‘Croupier’, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Clive Owen (“Intense, tough and all aces” Los Angeles Times).Feature Documentaries‘King of Communism’, directed by Ben Lewis, Grierson Award, international sales Soho Moon; The Klaus Kinski story ‘Mein Liebster Feind’, directed by Werner Herzog, Special Presentation Cannes Film Festival (“Genius and madness” Der Spiegel) and documusical ‘Sophiatown’, directed by Pascale Lamche, Best Documentary Cape Town World Cinema Festival.

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