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Ecosse Films is a Britishfilm andtelevision production company based inLondon. Ecosse Films produces programs forBBC,ITV,Channel 4,Showtime,Sky Atlantic,Starz Channel and WGBH.[1]
Ecosse Films was founded in November 1988 byDouglas Rae.[2]
In 1997 Ecosse Films produced the filmMrs Brown, starringJudi Dench asQueen Victoria andBilly Connolly as her servantJohn Brown. Their most successful television production has beenMonarch of the Glen, produced forBBC Scotland and screened onBBC One, which ran to seven series and chronicled events on a Scottish estate. Between 2008 and 2010 they have produced the BBC One seriesMistresses.
Ecosse's international drama,Camelot, a 10 part series written by Michael Hurst andChris Chibnall for Starz Channel and Channel 4 was broadcast in 2011. It starsJoseph Fiennes,Jamie Campbell Bower,Tamsin Egerton andEva Green. Ecosse has also produced RTÉ's seriesRaw, set in a Dublin restaurant, with a fourth series in production.
Ecosse has produced films including;Charlotte Gray starringCate Blanchett,Becoming Jane starringAnne Hathaway andJames McAvoy, andBrideshead Revisited. The BAFTA nominated filmNowhere Boy, the teenage biopic ofJohn Lennon directed bySam Taylor-Wood premiered at the London Film Festival in 2009.
In 2011, Ecosse releasedThe Decoy Bride, a romantic comedy about a famous celebrity wedding on a remote Scottish island and a local girl recruited to act as a decoy bride. Directed bySheree Folkson, it starredDavid Tennant,Alice Eve andKelly Macdonald. The same year they releasedWuthering Heights directed byAndrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine Earnshaw and newcomer James Howson as Heathcliff. The world premiere was in competition at the68th Venice International Film Festival.
In 2014, Ecosse producedFleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, a drama series featuringDominic Cooper asBond creatorIan Fleming, for Sky Atlantic HD.[3] Also in 2014 the company releasedThe Great Fire for ITV, a drama set during theGreat Fire of London in 1666.[4]
Ecosse released the drama filmHampstead in 2017, featuringBrendan Gleeson andDiane Keaton.[5]
In December 2019 theBBC began broadcasting a 6-part drama series produced by EcosseThe Trial of Christine Keeler about theProfumo affair.
Ecosse's management includes founderDouglas Rae who remains executive-producer on all of Ecosse's films, company director and producer Robert Bernstein, and film development producer Matt Delargy.[6]
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