 CHRISTOPHER SHEPPARD (PRODUCER)
After a successful career in publishing, first as a journalist (with assignments across five continents) then as a co-editor of 'The New Internationalist', Christopher Sheppard began producing and directing documentary films in 1985. The first of these, MAN-MADE FAMINE, presented by Glenda Jackson, won several international awards. He has made more than twenty documentary films, most of them independent productions tackling social and political issues, including DEATH OF A RUNAWAY (1992) and CHILD'S EYE (1995), both nominated for Royal Television Society Awards.
Adventure Pictures was formed in 1988 by Christopher Sheppard when he joined forces with director Sally Potter. The widely acclaimed ORLANDO (1992) marked his debut as a feature film producer, and was a five-nation co-production (one of the earliest independent films to be structured this way). This was followed by THE TANGO LESSON (1997), where Christopher once again brought together a dynamic team of independent film companies from around the world, and then THE MAN WHO CRIED (2000).
His work as a producer has been characterized by the creative management of extremely low budget films which nevertheless have impressively high production values. For YES, Christopher enlisted the collaboration of Andrew Fierberg to tackle the challenge of even-lower-budget filmmaking.
YES is producer Christopher Sheppard's fourth collaboration with Sally Potter.
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