ISLAND PICTURES

Island Pictures is a television and film production company, based in London.

Island's mission is to produce high-quality popular drama and comedy for both film and television.   We nurture our projects and the writers, authors and creative talent with whom we are privileged to work.

We believe in great stories, well told.  We aspire to the highest production values.  And we relish the challenge of the mainstream.

DOMINIC MINGHELLA
Writer/Producer

Dominic Minghella was born in 1966 to second-generation Italian parents.  He grew up on the Isle of Wight and went to the local comprehensive, Medina High, and on to Merton College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. 

 

After university, Dominic embarked on a writing career.  He was script editor and writer for Hamish Macbeth starring Robert Carlyle for BBC.  He wrote and created the hit series Doc Martin starring Martin Clunes for ITV, which won Best Comedy Drama at the Comedy Awards and has sold around the world.  It has also been remade in Germany, Spain and France.  He wrote and created the Robin Hood series for BBC, and was also Executive Producer and Showrunner of the first two series.  Robin Hood was a top-5 seller around the world for its distributors, BBC WorldWide.

 

SARAH BEARDSALL
Producer

Sarah Beardsall was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where she read History.

Sarah was a casting director for many years before co-founding Plain Vanilla Productions and embarking on a producing career.  Sarah's credits over two decades in the business include Four Weddings And A Funeral, Inspector Morse, The Talented Mr Ripley, Liverpool One, Servants, Life Begins and Hustle.  Her first job, by no coincidence at all, was working with Dominic's brother Anthony Minghella on the film Truly, Madly, Deeply.

Sarah is working on a range of drama and comedy projects with some of the best creative talent in the UK.

IMOGEN COOPER
Development Producer

Imogen Cooper read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mansfield College, Oxford, and  was a Graduate Trainee at Carlton Television.   She went on to become a Script Editor and Development Executive at Granada Drama & Comedy and Carlton Drama, before joining the Island team in 2009.  Her credits include Northanger Abbey, Time of your Life, Malice Aforethought, Beneath the Skin, and All About George, all for ITV.

  

MATTHEW WILSON
Development Associate

Matthew Wilson was educated somewhere up north and, by complete coincidence, Merton College, Oxford, where he read English.   After university, Matthew joined Plain Vanilla as Development Assistant, before being promoted to Associate at Island Pictures.  Matthew's passion is for the detective fiction genre.

SUBMISSIONS

Unfortunately we cannot accept unsolicited materials unless they are submitted via an established agent.

ISLAND PICTURES
37/38 Margaret Street
London W1G 0JF
020 7491 8900

islanders@island-pictures.co.uk

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