Gillian Berrie
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| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | Film Producer |
| Organization | Sigma Films |
| Website | http://www.sigmafilms.com |
Gillian Berrie is a film producer and co-founder of the Glasgow-based production company Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie.
Berrie also founded Film City Glasgow, the state-of-the-art creative cluster for production, picture and sound post which spearheads independent production in Scotland.
She also created the hugely successful Jumpcut project which is dedicated to giving young and underprivileged people access to working in the film industry through a pop-up film school that creates an intensive, mentor-lead fast track into the industry for those without any chance of access. Jumpcut's films regularly compete internationally. The project is widely regarded as a runaway success.
When starting out, Berrie worked on numerous no budget / low budget productions in many different capacities. Alongside, she wrote and produced David Mackenzie's California Sunshine (1997) and Somersault (2000), both multi-award winning shorts. She then went on to work as a casting director on Ken Loach's My Name is Joe (1998) and Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher (1999) and in production on Ken Loach's Carla's Song (1996) and Peter Mullan's Orphans (1998), amongst others.
Berrie then embarked on developing and producing numerous feature projects beginning with David Mackenzie's The Last Great Wilderness (2002) which was co-produced by Zentropa and premiered in Toronto in 2002.
Over the next two years Berrie received producer credits on 3 films including Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Lars von Trier's Dogville (2003) and David Mackenzie's Young Adam (2003). The latter two were regarded as groundbreaking, both premiering at Cannes in the same year and going on to win awards around the world. In 2004, Berrie co-produced Shona Auerbach's Dear Frankie starring Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler. It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and competed in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Berrie continued nurturing the relationship with Zentropa by co-producing the likes of Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Dogville (2003), Brothers (2004), Dear Wendy (2004), Manderlay (2005) and After the Wedding (2006). This collaboration has received numerous plaudits from critics with awards and recognition from all over the world including BAFTA, Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards.
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