Element Pictures (formerly Element Films)

Address: 21 Mespil Road, Dublin 4
Telephone: +353 1 618 5032
Fax: +353 1 664 3737
Email: mail@elementpictures.ie

Personnel:
Ed Guiney - Producer
Andrew Lowe - Producer
Hilary Barrett - Office Manager
Louise Cornally - Production Finance Executive
Yvonne Donohoe - Development Executive
Lucy Dyke - Head of TV Development
Catherine Fitzgerald - Business Affairs Executive
Moselle Foley - Runner
Charles Harrison
Paula Heffernan - PA to Directors
Lee Magiday - Head of Development & Production - Film
Emmet O'Neill - Head of Distribution
Leonie Quinn - Accountant
Nell Roddy - PR Executive
Audrey Sheils - Head of Element Pictures Distribution

Company Description:

Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe run Element Pictures, a film and television drama production company based in Dublin and London. Element also operate an Irish film distribution company, Element Pictures Distribution.

Element are currently in post-production on the feature film Zonad, directed by John Carney, the worldwide critically acclaimed director of the film Once. Co-written by John and Kieran Carney, Zonad is produced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe and John McDonnell.

Also in post-production are two television dramas for RTÉ (Ireland’s national broadcaster). Little White Lie is a single romantic comedy written by playwright Stuart Carolan. Bittersweet by Di Burrows is a pilot episode for a drama series, made with the intention of series production in 2008.

In 2007, Element produced Prosperity, a series of 4 one hour dramas for RTÉ written by Mark O’Halloran and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. The series won the Best Director for TV and Best Script for TV at the recent 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs).

Also in 2007, Garage, the follow up film to the award winning Adam & Paul, from the same team of writer Mark O'Halloran and director Lenny Abrahamson, and starring Pat Shortt, was selected for the prestigious Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival and won the CICAE Art and Essai award. The film also won the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actor at the 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards.

Ed Guiney also produced Death of A President for Channel 4, written and directed by GabrielRange, which won the International Critics Fipresci Prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

Element Pictures co-produced The Wind That Shakes The Barley, directed by Ken Loach, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and has become the most successful independent film ever released in Ireland.

Other recent productions include: Adam & Paul (Lenny Abrahamson), which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival; The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (Steve Bendelack), produced with Tiger Aspect Pictures for Universal/Film Four; Isolation (Billy O’Brien), produced with The Bureau/Blue Orange for Lionsgate/Film Four/Redbus; Lassie (Charles Sturridge) produced with Firstsight for Classic Media/Odyssey and released in December in the UK via Entertainment Film Distributors; Omagh (Pete Travis), which won the BAFTA for Best Single Film 2004, the Discovery Award at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival and the prize for Best European Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2004; as well asThe Magdelene Sisters (2002) (Peter Mullan) which was a major critical success winning the Golden Lion at Venice 2002, the Discovery Award in the Toronto Film Festival 2002 and the Audience Award at the Ljubljana Film Festival 2002.

Ed Guiney, via Accomplice TV, also executive produced the six part television series Pure Mule, the highest rating drama on RTÉ 2 which won five awards at the 2005 Irish Film and Television Awards and Bachelors Walk, a comedy drama series which ran for three seasons, also on RTÉ.

Element Pictures Distribution is our newly formed distribution company, headed up by Audrey Sheils (ex Metrodome and Empire Design). The first release to be handled by Element Distribution was Garage.

Element runs a division which operates as a co-producer on international film and television drama. Productions include; Desperados with Company Pictures, Murphy’s Law V with Tiger Aspect, Rough Diamond with World Productions, Single Handed and Sherlock Holmes and The Baker Street Irregulars with RDF Media and George Gently with Company Pictures, all for the BBC.

Element Pictures also runs a joint venture, Hells Kitchen International, with Jim Sheridan and Arthur Lappin which acts as a co-producer on mainly US films shooting in Ireland. Recent productions include Laws of Attraction (2003) for New Line and The Honeymooners (2004) for Paramount.

April 2008