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Rachel Robey
London to Brighton produced by DS trainer, Rachel Robey
Rachel Robey is a producer who founded the company, Wellington Films, alongside Alastair Clark, with the mission of producing British feature films which find an audience both in the UK and overseas.
Their BAFTA-nominated debut feature, London to Brighton earned them the Best Achievement in Production award at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards and a nomination at the London Critics Circle Film Awards for British Film Producers of the Year.
London to Brighton was released to widespread critical acclaim by Vertigo Films, and earned director Paul Andrew Williams a BAFTA nomination for the Carl Foreman Award.
Better Things, the critically acclaimed debut feature film by Duane Hopkins, is their second feature, together with fellow producer Samm Haillay. It premiered in Critics Week at Cannes Film Festival 2008 and has been screened at numerous festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival and Stockholm Film Festival where it was awarded the Fipresci Critics Award.
Better Things was released in January 2009 in the UK and France, and shortly after in the US by the Independent Film Channel. It is sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams.
Wellington’s co-production Unmade Beds (with The Bureau), the second feature by Alexis dos Santos, premiered at Sundance 2009 in the World Cinema section. They are in development on several other films, including their first feature documentary – A Man's Story – about of the designer and fashion icon Ozwald Boateng.
www.wellingtonfilms.co.uk
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