Sands Films

Sands Films is a small British film production company, founded by producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard in the early 1970s, and based in Rotherhithe, London. The company is known for its production of costumes for period dramas. Recent films includes Bright Star (2009), The Young Victoria (2009), Anonymous (2011), Bel Ami (2012) and Les Miserables (2012).

As an independent film production studio Sands Films has its own soundproof stage, workshops, costume department, set construction workshop, cutting room, cinema and other services needed to make films. It is a self-sufficient and fully integrated production facility. Cinema and television companies as varied as Working Title, Talkback, BBC, C4, Freemantle, Ridley Scott Associates, Sky TV, the Royal Opera House, the New York Metropolitan Opera and Canal+ have used the facilities at Sands for their projects. The studio has also been successful in delivering full production packages to companies in need of a London studio base, from A Passage to India" (1984) to Bright Star (2009). Sands films supplied facilities to Working Title's productions of "Anna Karenina" (2012) and Les Misérables.

Notable productions for which the company has produced costumes include all the Agatha Christie films produced by EMI (including Death on the Nile),Vanity Fair (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Fingersmith (2005), and Pride & Prejudice (2005).

The building that Sands Films occupies is a former granary, now a grade II listed building. Since 1976, it has housed a small film stage, film theatre, picture library, workshops and costume stores. Recently, Sands Films has been raising money to finance the acquisition of this property and to modernise its production facilities. The situation has arisen because the property owner were seeking to redevelop the site. The aim of this business plan is to protect the company's place of business and to secure the long term continuation and development of the studio activities. In September 2011 Sands Films has offered to purchase the property this offer has been accepted and the completion took place on Friday 18 May 2012. The company continues nevertheless its fund raising activity.

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