FILM FILE

Production: Judy Counihan/Dakota Films for The Film Consortium.
Director: Clare Kilner
Cast: Eileen Walsh, Rhys Ifans, Patsy Kensit, Eddie Marsan, Gawn Grainger, David O'Hara
Started: September 27, 19998; London, UK
Subject: A compulsive dreamer (not to say liar), Janice Beard arrives in the big city armed only with a typing speed of 45 wpm (which for those not familiar with office work is kinda slow) to make enough money to treat her mother's agoraphobia. She also finds romance.
International distribution: The Sales Co.

Production: Mark Thomas, Michael Parker/Fiction Factory for Entertainment Film Distributors
Director: Edward Thomas
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Joseph Fiennes, Tara Fitzgerald, Sadie Frost, Steven Berkoff, Nick Moran, Keith Allen, Andrew Howard.
Started: November 17, 1998; London & Wales, UK; Poland.
Subject: Pete's life is in chaos: his business is going under; his relationship is on the rocks; and he's trying to make out to his secretary, who is married to his bike messenger. Maybe the Russian Mafia can save the day.
Internation distribution: Entertainment Film Distributors.

Production: John McCormack for Double Life Films.
Director: John McCormack.
Cast: Paul Usher, Scott Williams.
Started: Manchester, UK.
Subject: The McColl family fights to keep control of the family business (dealing in yorkshire stone: the "platinum of the stone world") against a background of Manchester's gangster underworld. A low-budget British movie, Van Boys gets a Cannes market screening as part of the BAFTA North Showcase.