Production Houses

The production companies involved in the production of Wild Rose were;

Fable Pictures:

Faye Ward founded Fable Pictures in 2016 after the success of 'Suffragette' at Ruby Films. Before founding Fable, Faye was also part of the producing team of Left Bank Pictures’ multi-award-winning series 'The Crown'. Shortly after setting up her own label, Sony Pictures Television took a minority stake in the business, allowing Ward and her team to start amassing a slate of projects across features and series. Former Origin Pictures executive Hannah Farrell joined the company in 2018 as a creative partner. The company’s first feature, Tom Harper’s Wild Rose, premiered to rave reviews in Toronto. Its second, Jon S Baird’s 'Stan & Ollie', closed this year’s BFI London Film Festival and was picked up for the US and other territories by Sony Pictures Classics. Faye previously spent many years at Ruby Film & Television alongside Alison Owen, where she worked across the slate, producing the BBC’s Golden Globe nominated TV series 'Dancing on the Edge', as well as the BBC One adaptation of Nigel Slater’s memoir 'Toast'. Faye was also part of the producing team on 'Brick Lane', the first collaboration of many with Sarah Gavron and writer Abi Morgan. Her other credits while at Ruby include Cary Fukunaga’s 'Jane Eyre', for Focus Features and BBC Films; 'Double Lesson' for Channel 4; Stephen Frear’s 'Tamara Drewe', 'The Other Boleyn Girl', Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 'Five Minutes of Heaven', and the multi-award-winning BBC One adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel 'Small Island'. Faye was the recipient of the ENVY Producer Award at the 2019 Women in Film and Television Awards, as well as the winner of 2019’s Hospital Club’s h100 Film Award. In 2020, she was invited to join the US’ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

Film4 Productions:

Film4 was started in 1982 as Film4 Productions, a film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation and has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom, and around the world. The company's first production was 'Walter', directed by Stephan Frears, which was released in 1982. In late 1998, the outfit was re-branded as FilmFour, to coincide with the launch of a new Digital TV channel of the same name on the Sky Digital and ONdigital platforms. It soon became Channel 4's second channel after Channel 4 itself. The first film to be shown was 'The Usual Suspects'. In 2004, Tessa Ross became head of both Film4 and Channel 4 drama. The name 'Film4 Productions' was introduced in 2006 to tie in with the relaunch of the FilmFour broadcast channel as Film4. The channel re-launched, under the slightly modified name of Film4, as a free-to-air service a few days later on 23 July. It also returned to digital terrestrial as part of the Freeview brand, and became completely free-to-air on satellite television. Due to the change, the channel's availability increased from 300,000 (subscribers) to 18 million households. The first film broadcast under the new format was the British non-subscription television premiere of 'Lost in Translation'. Prior to the arrivals of Movie Mix and movies4men on the Freeview platform, Film4 was the only free film channel available on digital terrestrial television. On 1 November 2010, Film4 partnered with FilmFlex to launch Film4oD. On 2 September 2014, Film4 debuted a new on-air look, designed by Man vs. Machine. Film4 operated a one-hour-time shift channel, Film4 +1, on satellite, cable and Freeview. This channel was dropped on Freeview to make way for Channel 4 +1, but returned on 27 August 2013. It continued to be broadcast on Sky, Virgin and Freesat during this time period. On 20 July 2010, Film4 HD launched exclusively on Virgin Media's cable television platform on channel 429, it is only available on certain packages. Later, additional channels were added, FilmFour World and FilmFour Extreme which operated on a timeshare and the timeshift channel FilmFour +1. FilmFour Weekly ceased broadcasting on 19 July 2006 when the subscription service ended. The channel offered an online Video on demand service, Film4oD until it was closed in July 2015.

Creative Scotland:

Creative Scotland is the development body for the arts and creative industries in Scotland. Based in Edinburgh, it is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. The organization was created by the passing of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and inherited the functions of Scottish Screen and the Scottish Art Council on 1 July 2010. An interim company, Creative Scotland 2009, was set up to assist the transition from the existing organizations. 

British Film Institute:

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organization which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses lottery funds to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports. The BFI maintains the world's largest film archive, the BFI National Archive. The archive contains more than 50,000 fiction films, over 100,000 non-fiction titles, and around 625,000 television programes. The majority of the collection is British material but it also features internationally significant holdings from around the world. The BFI runs the BFI Southbank (formerly the National Film Theatre (NFT)) and London IMAX cinema, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The IMAX has the largest cinema screen in the UK and shows popular recent releases and short films showcasing its technology, which includes 3D screenings and 11,600 watts of digital surround sound. BFI Southbank (the National Film Theatre screens and the Studio) shows films from all over the world, particularly critically acclaimed historical & specialized films that may not otherwise get a cinema showing. The BFI also distributes archival and cultural cinema to other venues, each year to more than 800 venues all across the UK, as well as to a substantial number of overseas venues. The BFI offers a range of education initiatives, in particular to support the teaching of film and media studies in schools. In late 2012, the BFI received money from the Department for Education to create the BFI Film Academy Network for young people aged between 16–25. A residential scheme is held at the NFTS every year. The BFI runs the annual London Film Festival along with BFI Flare and the youth-orientated Future Film Festival. The BFI publishes the monthly Sight & Sound magazine as well as films on Blu-ray, DVD and books. It runs the BFI National Library and maintains the BFI Film & Database and Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT), which has a collection of about 7 million still frames from film and television. The BFI has co-produced a number of television series featuring footage from the BFI National Archive, in partnership with the BBC, including 'The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon', 'The Lost World of Friese-Greene' and 'The Lost World of Tibet'. The BFI has also produced contemporary artists' moving image work, most notably through the programe of the BFI Gallery. The Gallery also initiated projects by filmmakers such as Michael Snow, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jane and Louise Wilson and John Akomfrah.