| Name | Daniel Cormack | | Location | London, United Kingdom | | Job Title | Director | | Website | http://www.actaeonfilms.com | | Facebook Profile | | IMDB Profile | | BBC Film Network Profile | | YouTube Profile | | Myspace Profile | | About me | ACTAEON FILMS Actaeon Films is a London-based production company incorporated in July 2004 by director Daniel Cormack to produce feature-length theatrical motion pictures. Our focus is on producing British films with international appeal across a range of budgets, that use elements of established cinematic genres in fresh and innovative ways that will entertain and challenge a broad range of audiences. Our films use striking narratives – which combine contemporary resonance with deeper universal and timeless themes – first-rate screenwriting and a singular cinematic vision to attract the best actors, technicians and production and distribution partners. Our short form work includes the Tiscali Award-winning 35mm melodrama AMELIA AND MICHAEL (2007) starring Anthony Head, the UK Film Council-completion funded A FITTING TRIBUTE (2007) and the micro-short comedy NIGHTWALKING (2008). DANIEL CORMACK - Director & Producer Daniel Cormack was born in Lewisham, south east London and was educated at Thomas Tallis Comprehensive School in Kidbrooke. As a Photosensitive Epileptic, he was unable to watch television as a child and his ambition to be a film director was born out of regular and avid cinema-going from a young age. In 1999, he became the first person in his family to attend university and the only person in his school to attend Oxford when we was accepted to read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. After receiving a Distinction in his end of year examinations, he was elected to an Academic Scholarship. Daniel graduated in 2002 and worked at the British Film Institute London Film Festival that year. He then went on to work at the Electric Cinema and Members Club in Notting Hill. In July 2004, he established Actaeon Films to produce feature-length theatrical motion pictures. Daniel's directorial debut - AMELIA AND MICHAEL (2007)– starring Anthony Head (BUFFY / LITTLE BRITAIN) won the Tiscali Short Film Award for Best Debut at the 15th Raindance Film Festival and was shortlisted for a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film and a British Independent Film Award for Best British Short. The film went on to screen at numerous international film festivals including the 31st Montreal World Film Festival, and the 11th LA Shorts Fest. Hotdog concluded: "on this evidence, Daniel Cormack is a young director to watch" and Shooting People said: "Great performances, beautifully shot and a real sense of cinema. Daniel Cormack appears to be breaking all the rules without breaking sweat or showing off." Daniel's second short film A FITTING TRIBUTE (2007) starring Sally Bretton (THE OFFICE / GREEN WING) won a UK Film Council Completion Fund Award, a nationwide flagship scheme to support the best unfinished short films and entrepreneurial talent and was also shortlisted for a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. The film has screened at prestigious international festivals including Edinburgh, Palm Springs and Warsaw and was described by Time Out as "gripping...a shower of creativity and originality" with "a unique quality to touch and captivate...a little gem that twinkles with artistic imagination." In 2007, Daniel made his broadcast and documentary debut with the 30min authored documentary for Channel 4 MAKE ME A TORY (2007), following his journey as a disillusioned Labour voter going to meet young Conservatives and Conservative Party leader David Cameron. Time Out called the film "a worthwhile and interesting piece about the future Conservatism." Having completed another short film, NIGHTWALKING (2008), starring Raquel Cassidy (TEACHERS / LEAD BALLOON), Daniel's work was the subject of a 'Director's Showcase' at the BFI Southbank as part of the X'08 Festival. Daniel is on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the New Producers' Alliance and is a Committee Member of the Writers', Producers' and Directors' Branch of the union BECTU. |
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