Gayle Griffiths is Managing Director of Wild Horses Films. She
graduated from the National Film and Television School, producing
'Second Hand', which was written and directed by Emily Young.
Gayle was the recipient of the Alfred Dunhill UK New Talent Award,
2005, at the London Film Festival.
'Second Hand' won the Cinéfondation Prize at the 1999 Cannes Film
Festival, the Golden Lion at the Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, and the
Special Jury Prize at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, 2000.
Gayle collaborated again with director Emily Young, developing
Kiss of Life (2003) with the
assistance of British Screen Finance, which was produced through the
Wild Horses Film Company.
'Kiss of Life' was an Anglo-French co-production funded by the UKFC New
Cinema Fund, BBC Films, Baker Street Media Finance and Haut et Court,
Paris.
The film received its world premiere in Un Certain Regard as part of
the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2003 and was sold
internationally by Celluloid Dreams. 'Kiss of Life' was released by
Artificial Eye in January 2004 and Emily Young subsequently won the
Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement in a First Feature at the
2004 BAFTAs.
Gayle's second feature,
Song of Songs (2005), co-written by
Jay Basu and
Josh Appignanesi's directorial debut.
'Song of Songs' had its world premiere at the 2005 Edinburgh
International Film Festival (UK Premiere British Gala section) and Josh
Appignanesi was awarded a special commendation by the Michael Powell
Jury.
The film was selected for the London Film Festival and had its
international premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in
the Tiger section. 'Song of Songs' was released in the UK by Soda
Pictures in 2006, and was subsequently released in France by Pierre
Grise.
Gayle has completed both Skillset's Inside Pictures, the London/LA
based business programme for producers and executives run by Michael
Kuhn's Qwerty Films, and Atéliers du Cinema Européen (ACE), the
pan-European Paris based producers programme, founded by Colin Young.
Through Wild Horses Films, Gayle produced
Joanna Hogg's critically acclaimed second
feature, Archipelago (2010). The film
was recipient of a special commendation, Best Film, London Film
Festival 2010 and was released by Artificial Eye in 2011.
Gayle's most recent film,
My Brother the Devil (2012)
was produced in collaboration with Rooks Nest Entertainment. The film
appeared in the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival 'Panorama'
section, where it received the Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best
European film, and at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the
Best Cinematography Award: World Dramatic Competition, and the
Worldview Sundance Impact Award at Sundance London. The film is to be
released in the UK by Verve Pictures.
Gayle is now in production on Joanna Hogg's 'London Project', and has
three projects in development, including an investigative journalistic
piece by Jessica Mitford to be adapted for television.
