Director/Producers

Threes Anna

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Threes Anna is a writer and director from the Netherlands who works in three fields; literature, film and theatre.

'The Bird Can't Fly' is her debut feature film. On the Dutch Film Festival 2007 she won the prize for the best 'First-time director's film' (The Prize of the City Utrecht). In 2008 she won, as one of the producers, 'The Stimulus for Success Prize'.
Inspired on the film she wrote her fourth novel 'Vogel kan niet vliegen' (2008 Querido).

Currently she is working on a new film script, an adaptation from her novel 'The Silent City'.

After the Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam, where she studied theatre design and audio-visual studies, Threes Anna became a core member of the international theatre company Dogtroep. From 1989 to 1999 Threes Anna operated as the company's artistic director. In this capacity she wrote and directed over 50 site-specific theatrical spectacles all across the globe. Performances were staged on the remains of the Berlin Wall, during the war in Belgrade and just after the first elections in South Africa, as well as in the snow at the Winter Olympics in France, in the slums of Uzbekistan, and in the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam. Her fascination with extreme situations and locations was roused during this period. From one of her shows, Noordwesterwals, a spectacular performance in which 1.2 million litres of water formed the lead, she made a short film. During the nineties Threes Anna also made several documentaries on visual artists and their work.

In 1998 she began to develop her first film script, 'The Bird Can't Fly', which was inspired on Southern Africa. In June 2003 her first novel, 'De kus van de weduwe' (The Widow's Kiss), was published; in 2005 her novel 'Motormoeder' (Motor Mother); both published by Vassallucci, Amsterdam. In august 2006 publishing house Querido published her novel 'De stille stad' (The Silent City). Threes Anna also wrote a series of columns for a Dutch newspaper as well as some short stories in commission.
In 2006, after nine years of fighting for the project, her debut feature film 'The Bird Can't Fly', with Barbara Hershey in the lead, was shot in South Africa.

Beside her own work Threes Anna gives lectures and workshops all around the world about directing and site-specific theatre.

Anton Scholten

Film Academy Amsterdam (1987)
Graduate from The Binger Institute in Amsterdam

1987-1990
Production manager and First Assistant for various short films, feature films, documentaries and video-clips
1990
Start of private company: 25fps commercial production. Producer of commercials for The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Denmark, Poland and Germany. In 1999 25fps was mentioned as the number 6 of the list of worldwide commercial production companies. 25fps has won all major advertising prizes in the world, including several (gold) lions in Cannes), Mobius Awards and a Euro Grand Prix.

1990-2006
Producer of numerous commercials.

2000
Start of private company 50fps post; a postproduction company, specialized in high end post production. Now known as: Filmmore, the leading postproduction house in Holland for: feature film, television Drama and documentaries.

2000
Producer short film: Oranje Boven, director Mark Limburg.

2001
Producer short film: Dick and Maria, director Mark Limburg. Nominated for NPS award for best short.

2000
Start of private company 24fps features, together with Jose van Doorn.
2003
Line producer Holland for the American feature film: The Girl in Hyacinth Blue a.k.a. Brushed with faith, with Ellen Burstyn and Glenn Close.

2004
Producer for the Dutch feature film: De Passievrucht, (A father's affair) Nominated for best Dutch picture, best actrice and best sound in 2004.

2005
Line producer Holland for the American Feature: Five fingers, with Ryan Phillippe ans Laurance Fishburn.

2005
Producer for the short film: Dilemma, nominated for the NPS award for best short film. Official selection of the Tribecca Film Festival

2006-2007
Shooting of the feature film: The Bird Can' FLY, with Barbara Hershey. Co-production with Ireland and South-Africa.

2008
Shooting planned for a German/Dutch co-production: The Incident.

Working experience in: Belgium, France, Spain, England, Denmark, Germany, Italy
Marocco, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Poland, Hong-Kong, Brazil, Argentina, South-Africa, USA (LA, San-Francisco, Boston, Miami, New-York, Orlando, Arizona, Alaska and Montana)

Anton Scholten has also taught classes in scriptwriting at the Art School in
Rotterdam and production at the Filmschool in Amsterdam.

Tom Maguire

ADDRESS: 78 Lansdowne Rd, Dublin 4.
MOBILE: +353 (0)86 2405349
EMAIL: tom@borderlineproductions.co.uk

DATE OF BIRTH
5 May 1969

EDUCATION
BA Honours Degree in Economics and German, Reading University, June 1992.
Emerging Producers Course run by Screen Training Ireland -August 1999-December 1999.
EAVE 2000 graduate
Film Business School graduate May 2004
Screen Leaders (Screen Training Ireland) graduate Nov 2005

LANGUAGES
Fluent in both German & Dutch. Knowledge of French, Italian, written Swedish and Danish

CURRENT Producer and founder, Borderline Productions
In Development A Girl Called Freedom, feature length co-production with support from the Irish Film Board
Occi Vs the World, a feature length co-production with Florin Film in Germany
Voyage of the Antelope, a feature length co-production with 24fps in Holland, Zanzibar Films in Dublin
Mioruilti a TV series in development with NIFTC and TG4, Ireland.
East Meats West 6 part TV series written and to be directed by Conor MacDermottroe.
King of the Hills a 4 part mini series written by Chris Kelly and Penny Edwards, to be directed by Tom Clegg.

FILM PRODUCER
Aug 06 - The Bird Can't Fly by Threes Anna, a feature length co-production with 24fps in Holland and IMG in South Africa

Dec 05-Aug 06 Queering the Pitch, a documentary on the Emerald Warriors, Ireland first rugby team open to gay men.

Mar-Dec 2005 Johnny Was, a feature written by Brendan Foley, directed by Mark Hammond, starring Vinnie Jones, Samantha Mumba, Roger Daltrey, Patrick Bergin, Laurence Kinlan, Eriq La Salle and Lennox Lewis (International sales with Nordisk Film, Copenhagen)

Jan-Mar 2005 20 or 22, short film written and directed by Conor MacDermottroe, financed by TG4 & the Irish Film Board

Feb-Mar 2004 Squaddie, Short Film, Written and Directed by Conor MacDermottroe, financed by the Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC).

June 2003 Circle, short film written and directed by Colette Cullen, for TG4 and the Irish Film Board.

1996-1999 Four short films screened at numerous international festivals and broadcast on the Irish national broadcaster, RTE.

FILM ACCOUNTING

Jan-Feb 2005	Production Accountant on "Na Fiorghaeil", Short Film. Total budget €75,000
Mar-Jul 2004	Production Accountant on "Recoil", Short Film. Total budget €75,000 and "Jane by the Sea", hour length drama. Total budget: €131,000
Feb-Mar 2004	Production Accountant on "Longest Ditch", Short film. Total budget €113,000
Sept 2003- Jan 2004	Production Accountant on "Bachelors Walk, Series 3", TV Series. Total budget €2m
Mar-June 2003	Production Accountant on "Camera Cafe", TV series. Total budget €350,000
Jan-July 2003	Production Accountant on "Framed", feature film (Budget: €1.3 million)
Nov 2002- June	Production Accountant on "Headrush", feature film (Budget: €1 million)
Jan-May 2002	Production Accountant on "Mystics", feature film (Total Budget: €5.7 million)
Sep-Dec 2001	Production Accountant on "Fergus' Wedding", TV series (Total Budget: €1.27 million)
Mar-Jul 2001	Production Accountant on "It's All About Love". Feature Film (Total Budget: €12.7 Million)
Jan- Sep 2000	Post Production Accountant on "The Borstal Boy" and "The Smiling Suicide Club", (Combined Budget: €10million)
Sept 1999- Jan 2000	Production Accountant on "The Borstal Boy", feature film (Total Budget: €2.2 million)
May 1999	Production Accountant on "Between Dreams", a short (Budget: €51,000)
Dec 1997- Mar 1999	Assistant Accountant on "Mystic Knights", a US TV series. Production Accountant: David Murphy (Budget: €7 Million)
Aug-Oct 1997	Production Accountant on "Double Carpet", a TV Drama for RTE. (Budget: €1.1 Million)
April-Aug 1997	Assistant Accountant on "The Inventors Specials", Canadian TV Series. Production Accountant: Sophie Tebbitt. (Budget: €4 Million)
	Assistant Accountant on "Sweeney Todd" Hallmark TV Movie, Supervising Accountant:-Ron Swinburne. (Budget: €10 Million)

THEATRE PRODUCER
Oct 2006 Songs for Lovers and those they've dumped, by Shelly Goldstein. Produced in the Mill Theatre Dublin.

Oct-Dec 2001 Will Strip for Food, directed by Antonia Leslie. Produced in Hot Press Theatre in Dublin for six weeks

OTHER
Sep-Nov 2000 Emerging Producers Course Placement with two New York based Distribution companies: Fox Searchlight and Lot 47 Films

1991-1996
Casting/Production Assistant Two television series (Roddy Doyle's Family & Ballykissangel)
Trainee A.D. Eight Feature films, seven shorts, fourteen commercials and 1 pop promo (The Eagles in Concert)
Information Officer in Film Base, Resource centre in the Irish Film Institute in Dublin
Researcher for Joop van den Eenden Studios in Amsterdam (4 months 1992)
Researcher for West Deutsche Rundfunk
Referee's available on request

Joel Phiri

Joel Chikapa Phiri is one of Africa's leading entrepreneurs in the film and television business. In 1992 he was instrumental in the production of the first independently produced and financed black UK feature film "WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME" directed by Ngozi Onwurah, which he line produced.

He produced Ingrid's Sinclair's "FLAME", which was part of the Official Selection for the Cannes Film Festivals (Quinziane Des Realisateurs) Director's Fortnight in 1996.

He was also a co-founder of Framework International. Framework co-produced features films include Ramadan Suleman's "FOOLS" and Jean Pierre Bekolo's "ARISTOTLE'S PLOT". "KINI & ADAMS", Framework's co-production with Noe Productions, directed by Idrissa Ouedraego, was selected for Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. Phiri also helped initiate and co-produced the groundbreaking short film series' AFRICA DREAMING and "MAMA AFRICA", which toured the festival circuit to wide praise.

In 1999 Phiri moved to Johannesburg creating Ice Media. Ice Media's notable projects include the 13 part documentary series, "AFRICAN RENAISSANCE", Rehad Desai's "MY LAND MY LIFE", and Francois Vester's "A LION'S TRAIL". Ice Media also produced "UNO'S WORLD", Bridget Pickering's entry in the MAMA AFRICA SERIES.

In 2001 Joel was instrumental in the creation of two new companies Dv8 Films and IMG Productions.

Joel produced, under Dv8, "FORGIVENESS", (Lorcano 2004) by Ian Gabriel "MAX AND MONA" (Sithengi 2004) by Teddy Mattera and "BUNNYCHOW" (Toronto 2006), by John Barker

Under IMG he co-produced "MONSIEUR N" (Berlin, Panorama Competition, 2003), "THE FLYER" by Revel Fox (Locarno, La Piazza Grand, 2005) "CRAZY MONKEY: STRAIGHT OUTTA BENONI" by Trevor Clarence (2005) and "WAH-WAH" by Richard E Grant (Edinburgh, Opening Night Film, 2005), IMG's latest Film "THE BIRD CAN'T FLY" by Threes Anna will be released in 2007

In 2007 Joel sold his interests in Dv8 and took 100% control of IMG Productions. He created a new business group called Insuperable Ventures (which apart from film and television has interests in other non media related businesses). As part of Insuperable Ventures, IMG Productions will continue to finance and produce feature films under a new banner called "Insuperable Film"

Joel has served as a board member on numerous industry boards, including The Southern African, Film Festival, (SAFF), The Federation of Pan African Film Makers (FEPACI), The African Script Development Trust, (ASDF), The Independent Producers Organisation of South Africa (IPO - Vice Chairperson 2002 - 2004), and Sithengi Film and Television Market (Chairperson 2003 - 2005).