Emma Clarke – Senior Executive – UK Film Council, New Cinema Fund
Emma started in advertising and worked for various production companies including Palace and RSA as a production co-ordinator.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1989 following a brief stint working on the Universal lot she went to work for Film and General Productions assisting and developing projects.
Back in the UK in 1994 she started up the London office for Fine Line Features, the art house division of New Line Cinema. As Vice President of Production and Acquisitions her job was to track all projects in the UK and European market assessing films for acquisition for North America, and also work on a variety of projects in the development and production phases. Films handled by the London office during this period included Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night starring Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter, Roseanna’s Grave with Jean Reno and Mercedes Ruehl, The Winter Guest directed by Alan Rickman and starring Emma Thompson and Paul Greengrass’s Theory Of Flight with Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter.
In 2000 she joined the UK Film Council as a Senior Executive at the New Cinema Fund. Here she is part of the team that assess the applications, and she oversees all aspects of production from development through financing, shooting and editing to completion. The films she is responsible for seeing through this process to date include Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday, Kevin MacDonald’s Touching The Void, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence, Sally Potter’s Yes, the Brothers Quay’s The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes, John Crowley’s Intermission, Michael Caton Jones’s Shooting Dogs and Andrea Arnold’s Red Road winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes 2006. She runs the strand of low budget first time directors films that the UKFC make with BBC Films which has produced to date Francesca Joseph’s Tomorrow La Scala, Sarah Gavron’s This Little Life, and Saul Dibb’s Bullet Boy.
