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Peter Watson
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Biography
Peter Watson is CEO of Recorded Picture Company. Joining RPC in the early 1990s, Watson began a long and fruitful partnership with legendary producer Jeremy Thomas. Setting out to build a vertically integrated production and distribution business, Watson co-founded the respected sales agency HanWay Films in 1999, and remains its deputy chairman. Continuing RPC’s legacy as a director-led production company, he has focused the sales and distribution business to achieve its standing in the market as a home for quality cinema. Watson has executive produced more than a dozen films include Takeshi Kitano’s Brother, Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, and David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method.
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The University of British Cinema
From the dreaming spires of Cambridge to the redbrick campuses of the provinces, a journey through the British university film and what it reveals about class,...
8 films
Fractured Fables
From Grimm to the modern screen, a journey through films that twist the familiar into the unsettling, the erotic, and the profoundly human.
8 films
Escapes from Broken Realities
A journey through films where children and the childlike build imaginative refuges from fractured worlds, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Terry Gilliam...
8 films
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