John Battsek

Battsek at the Montclair Film Festival, May 2015

John Battsek is a documentary film producer.

Award-winning producer John Battsek runs the film department at Passion Pictures, which has produced a number of acclaimed films over the last decade.

Launching with Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning One Day in September in 1999,^[1] Passion Pictures has since produced a slate of over thirty feature documentaries many of which have been launched at prestigious film festivals and achieved international distribution. These include In the Shadow of the Moon; Oscar nominated Restrepo; Academy Shortlisted Sergio; Grierson Award Winners The Age of Stupid and Fire in Babylon; Academy Award Shortlisted The Tillman Story; triple Emmy nominated Better this World, and James Marsh's Project Nim. Recent collaborations include 2013 BAFTA and Academy Award winning Searching for Sugar Man by director Malik Bendjelloul and Raw TV's BAFTA winning The Imposter. Battsek has been twice nominated for a PGA Award in 2010 for and in 2011 for Sergio'' and The Tillman Story respectively, and was the recipient of this years prestigious Grierson Trustees Award for Outstanding Contribution to Documentary.

Filmography

One Day in September (1999) – Producer
The Game of Their Lives (2002) – Executive producer
Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop (2003) – Producer
Peace One Day (2004) – Co-producer
Lila Says (Lila Dit Ca) (2004) – Co-producer
Black Sun (2005) – Producer
A State of Mind (2005) – Producer
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006) – Producer
In the Shadow of the Moon (2006) – Executive producer
Crossing the Line (2006) – Executive producer
My Kid Could Paint That (2007) – Executive producer
In Prison My Whole Life (2007) – Co-producer
Sergio (2008) – Producer
The Age of Stupid (2009) – Executive producer
Restrepo (2010) – Executive producer
The Stones in Exile – (2010) – Producer
The Tillman Story – (2010) – Producer
Fire in Babylon – (2010) – Producer
Project Nim – (2011) – Executive Producer
Bob & the Monster – (2011) – Executive Producer
Better This World – (2011) – Executive Producer
Koran by Heart – (2011) – Producer
The Imposter – (2012) – Executive Producer
Searching for Sugar Man – (2012) – Executive Producer
How I Live Now – (2013) – Producer
Listen To Me Marlon – (2015) – Producer
We Are X – (2016) – Producer

Reviews and interviews

"A Passion for the Truth" – Variety
Interview with John Battsek – Tiscali Film and TV
Live Forever Q&A – Contact Music
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/movies/20tillman.html?ref=movies
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-tillman-20100820,0,5659182.story

References

↑ "Team America". Future Movies.

External links

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