An entrepreneurial spirit is an important element of being a producer, some sort of inner workings that is pushing you forward. Because there are a lot of knockbacks and you have to wear a sort of armour so you can continue believing in your films when everybody around you is telling you: "Don't do that.'
- Jeremy Thomas

Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas has worked on some of the worlds finest independent films. His C.V. covers an extraordinary range of distinctive films from The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski) and Bad Timing (Nic Roeg) in the 70s and 80s, through to the recent Pina (Wim Wenders) and A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg). He has worked with directors who read like a 'Who's Who' of world cinema, including Nagisa Oshima, Bernardo Bertolucci, Terry Gilliam, Takashi Miike, Stephen Frears and Phillip Noyce, amongst others.

Jeremy Thomas has helped develop the career of first-time feature filmmakers such as Jonathan Glazer with 'Sexy Beast' and David Mackenzie with 'Young Adam', and with his Recorded Picture Company he has achieved that most remarkable feat in the film business: longevity and integrity.

In this event recording, Jeremy Thomas speaks to Head of Producing at NFTS, Chris Auty, and shares his influences and inspirations, and also some of the "inner workings" and armour that has sustained him at the top level of film producing.

Posted on Fri 21 Sept 2012.

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