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Elizabeth Karlsen is an American–British film producer. Her career has spanned over three and a half decades, and In 2019, she was awarded the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.
Elizabeth Karlsen. Elizabeth is an internationally renowned, award-winning producer, who co-founded the leading independent UK based production company Number 9 Films in 2002 with partner Stephen Woolley, garnering 52 BAFTA nominations and wins and 20 Academy Award® nominations and wins.
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Elizabeth Karlsen – Producer. Elizabeth Karlsen is an internationally renowned, award-winning producer, who co-founded the leading independent UK based production company Number 9 Films in 2002 with partner Stephen Woolley.
Mar 10, 2020 · Elizabeth Karlsen is a British film producer who co-founded Number 9 Films in 2002 with production partner and husband Stephen Woolley.
- On The Project’S Origins
- Why I Loved It
- Packaging and Finance
- Recreating 1950s New York
- After The Shoot
- Taking The Film to Cannes
Fourteen years ago I spoke to [agent] Jenne Casarotto, who wanted me to meet a writer named Phyllis Nagy. We ended up making Mrs. Harris together. While we were filming Mrs. Harris in Los Angeles, Phyllis said to me, “What I really want to do next is Carol.” I had read [Patricia Highsmith’s] Ripley novels but not The Price Of Salt. I fell in love w...
I was a big Highsmith fan. What I loved about this story is that at the centre of it are two women. They were fully formed, complex, interesting, intelligent, living, breathing characters. Also, I was drawn to the period of New York in 1952 — that’s an interesting period in American cultural and political history. What Highsmith explored and delved...
We had director John Crowley attached, and that didn’t work out for timing issues — he was stuck in post on another film. Cate Blanchett was attached. Once John was no longer attached, Cate’s involvement would be entirely dependent on the director. In a weird way what we had was a script, no director, the possibility of Cate and also a fair number ...
The market dictated the budget (under $20m, including financing fees). We had to figure out how to shoot it. New York was too expensive, because that New York of 1952 doesn’t exist anymore. Also, to shoot in New York is difficult with a schedule of 35 days moving from location to location. Stephen and I had made a movie in Cincinnati, Ohio — A Rage...
Todd doesn’t look at rushes while he films. He has a fantastic relationship with editor Affonso Gonçalves, who he also worked with on Mildred Pierce, and was working on everything back in New York. When we wrapped, Todd went off to a break, and then he came back to New York and he watched everything and made notes. He spent the first five-and-a-hal...
Todd was keen to go to Cannes. It was nerve-wracking. We finished the film in December and showed it to Cannes. Harvey was confident, but we’ve all been there, when you think something will be in. Cannes is the best film festival in the world and it’s harder and harder [to make the cut]. When those 3,000 people stood up in the Palais and started ch...
Number 9 Films was co-founded in 2002 by internationally award-winning producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley and has established itself as one of the UK’s leading independent production companies. In 2019, Karlsen and Woolley jointly received the highly prestigious and coveted BAFTA Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema.
Number 9 Films is a British independent film production company co-founded in 2002 by producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, after a long collaboration at both Palace Pictures and Scala Productions. In 2018, Claudia Yusef joined the company as head of development.
