Tally Garner - Agent, producer – Curtis Brown
Curtis Brown
January 2004 – Present: Jointly set up and run Cuba Pictures, a production company. To date we have projects in various stages of development at companies including Channel 4, New Line and Capitol Films/UKFC with whom we are part of one of the Film Council “super-slates”.
August 2003 – Present: Agent repping screenwriter and director clients, and working closely with Nick Marston, MD Media Dept.
January 2002 – Present: Books to Film Agent responsible for the sale of film and TV rights both in the US and UK. Titles optioned include Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell to Warner Bros, Remainder by Tom McCarthy to Charles Steel/ Film Four, Dial – A – Ghost by Eva Ibbotson to Heyday/ Warner Bros, Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro to Scott Free/Fox and Apocalipstick by Sue Margolis to Disney.
Lowe Lintas & Partners
May 2001- January 2002: Producer with Tony Oppe, Head of International TV Production, producing commercials for Unilever in Brazil, Argentina, Thailand and Australia, and for HSBC in the UK.
Curtis Brown
August 2000-May 2001: Assistant to Sue Latimer, Actors Agent, responsible for general office management, sourcing acting work and liaising with clients and casting directors.
Additional Experience
2005: Attended the Skillset/ UKFC Inside Pictures course.
2003- 2004: Produced A New Religion, a short film written and directed by Susannah Doyle and starring Rupert Graves. Shot on Super 16 with a budget of £5k. Screened at the Electric, Notting Hill as their B-film for a week in October 2004.
2000: Assistant to Jina Jay and Sarah Bird, casting directors.
Worked on The Others and Godspell respectively.
2000: Drama Coordinator, Baseline Charity.
Writing and Directing short plays for their AGM.
