Red Road
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
About The Production
Red Road is part of a unique, three-film concept called Advance Party produced by Sigma Films in Glasgow and Zentropa in Denmark. The idea behind Advance Party is that the same group of characters would be given to three different directors who would each have to develop a film around those characters. All the films would shoot for the same length of time in the same city, Glasgow. Sigma and Zentropa had decided to use first time directors paired with first time producers. In their search for three new directors Andrea Arnold came immediately to mind because Sigma had seen her Academy Award®-winning short film Wasp at its first screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The producers met with Andrea who was intrigued by the idea.
“I liked the sound of the concept, the collaborative nature in particular and the idea of working with Zentropa,” recalls Andrea. “Along with the two other filmmakers Morag McKinnon and Mikkel Noergaard, I was given a document that described seven characters who had been developed by Anders Thomas Jensen and Lone Scherfig”
Production Companies
Advanced Party Scheme
BBC Films
Glasgow Film Office
Scottish Screen
Sigma Films (in co-operation with)
UK Film Council
Verve Pictures
Zentropa Entertainments (co-producer)
Zoma Films Ltd. (in cooperation with)
Marketing
Marketing Was Keen To Flaunt After 21 Wins and 7 Wins In Various Awards For ‘Red Road’ And The Prospect Of The ‘Advance Party ‘ Trilogy Pulled In Audiences And Scored A Gross Of $1,128,345
Distribution
Distributed By TARTAN
Was The 6th Highest Gross For Tartan Studios
Distribution Credits
Distributors
A-Film Distribution (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
Eclipse Pictures (2006) (Ireland) (theatrical)
Frenetic Films (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
Tartan (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
Verve Pictures (2006) (UK) (theatrical)
A-Film Home Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
Arkles Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (DVD)
California Filmes (2007) (Brazil) (all media)
Palisades Pictures (2007) (USA) (all media)
Palisades Tartan (2006) (USA) (all media)
Sundance Channel (2008) (USA) (TV)
Vivarto (2007) (Poland) (all media)
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
About The Production
Red Road is part of a unique, three-film concept called Advance Party produced by Sigma Films in Glasgow and Zentropa in Denmark. The idea behind Advance Party is that the same group of characters would be given to three different directors who would each have to develop a film around those characters. All the films would shoot for the same length of time in the same city, Glasgow. Sigma and Zentropa had decided to use first time directors paired with first time producers. In their search for three new directors Andrea Arnold came immediately to mind because Sigma had seen her Academy Award®-winning short film Wasp at its first screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The producers met with Andrea who was intrigued by the idea.
“I liked the sound of the concept, the collaborative nature in particular and the idea of working with Zentropa,” recalls Andrea. “Along with the two other filmmakers Morag McKinnon and Mikkel Noergaard, I was given a document that described seven characters who had been developed by Anders Thomas Jensen and Lone Scherfig”
Production Companies
Advanced Party Scheme
BBC Films
Glasgow Film Office
Scottish Screen
Sigma Films (in co-operation with)
UK Film Council
Verve Pictures
Zentropa Entertainments (co-producer)
Zoma Films Ltd. (in cooperation with)
Marketing
Marketing Was Keen To Flaunt After 21 Wins and 7 Wins In Various Awards For ‘Red Road’ And The Prospect Of The ‘Advance Party ‘ Trilogy Pulled In Audiences And Scored A Gross Of $1,128,345
Distribution
Distributed By TARTAN
Was The 6th Highest Gross For Tartan Studios
Distribution Credits
Distributors
A-Film Distribution (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
Eclipse Pictures (2006) (Ireland) (theatrical)
Frenetic Films (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
Tartan (2007) (USA) (theatrical)
Verve Pictures (2006) (UK) (theatrical)
A-Film Home Entertainment (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
Arkles Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (DVD)
California Filmes (2007) (Brazil) (all media)
Palisades Pictures (2007) (USA) (all media)
Palisades Tartan (2006) (USA) (all media)
Sundance Channel (2008) (USA) (TV)
Vivarto (2007) (Poland) (all media)
Exhibited
Shown And Won Awards At Festivals In Washington, Philadelphia, Motovun, Montreal, Miami, London, Goteborg, Dinard, Chlotrudis and Cannes
