Sol Papadopoulos Email & Phone Number

Sol has been instrumental in the success of the independent film production company Hurricane Films. His BAFTA nomination in 2008 and selection of one of his feature film's for the Cannes Film Festival bears witness to his continuous search for creative excellence and his management of the people to make it happen. On the creative side for the past twenty years Sol has originated & written documentary films for broadcasters, both nationally & internationally. The acclaimed WNET/PBS series, WARSHIP, was a merit winner at the 2001 San Francisco Film Festival. In 2006/7 his four part history series WARPLANE has been seen in over fifty countries on the National Geographic channel. A winner of six Royal Television awards, a US Cine Golden Eagle and with two BAFTA nominations Sol’s love for a good tale has also led him down the fiction path producing over thirty shorts and, to date, six feature films including Of Time & the City. Sol's films have been selected for Cannes, Sydney, Toronto, Edinburgh and London film festivals to name a few! In 2014 Sol produced Terence Davies' Sunset Song which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival 2015. Shot in Scotland, New Zealand & Luxembourg the film is based on the book by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. In 2015 Sol produced his third Terence Davies feature, A QUIET PASSION. A biopic of the great American poet, Emily Dickinson, played by Cynthia Nixon and featuring Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2016 and went on release in the USA and U.K. On May 1st 2017 the feature documentary about Emily Dickinson directed by Sol, 'My Letter to the World', premiered at the Bermuda Film Festival. Great stories, whether fact or fiction, drives his passion for storytelling. 2018 will witness the cinema release of A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN. The film stars Peaky Blinder's Joe Cole.Specialties: Running a team, generating creative solutions in picture, sound and written word.