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  • Producers JOHN BATTSEK (Restrepo) and CHARLES STEEL (The Last King of Scotland) chat about their new movie, FIRE IN BABYLON, a big-screen documentary charting the supremacy of the West Indies cricket team in the late 70s and 80s. **FIRE IN BABYLON is in UK cinemas from 20 MAY MMM: What order did the cricketers you interviewed come on board? Steel: They all played hard to get! It was about getting Clive [Lloyd] and Viv [Richards] on...

    John Battsek & Charles Steel – Fire in Babylon

    Producers JOHN BATTSEK (Restrepo) and CHARLES STEEL (The Last King of Scotland) chat about their new movie, FIRE IN BABYLON, a big-screen documentary charting the supremacy of the West Indies cricket team in the late 70s and 80s. **FIRE IN BABYLON is in UK cinemas from 20 MAY MMM: What order did the cricketers you interviewed come on board? Steel: They all played hard to get! It was about getting Clive [Lloyd] and Viv [Richards] on...

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  • Movie producer ASHOK AMRITRAJ left India for the United States in 1975. Back then he was a professional tennis player. But as a kid growing up in Chennai, he always had an eye for the movies. And in 1980 he swapped the world of tennis volleys for the world of camera dollies to become a movie producer. Since then he’s made a hundred movies including Traitor starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce, Premonition with Sandra Bullock, and Bringing Down The House with...

    Ashok Amritraj (producer) – The Persuaders, Traitor, Premonition, etc

    Movie producer ASHOK AMRITRAJ left India for the United States in 1975. Back then he was a professional tennis player. But as a kid growing up in Chennai, he always had an eye for the movies. And in 1980 he swapped the world of tennis volleys for the world of camera dollies to become a movie producer. Since then he’s made a hundred movies including Traitor starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce, Premonition with Sandra Bullock, and Bringing Down The House with...

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  • Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching up 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba until first-time British director ANDREW LANG gained unprecedented access to the Havana Boxing Academy to make his film Sons of Cuba. The hand-picked group of 10-year-old boys who attend the Academy eat, breath, and sleep boxing. Lang’s film...

    Andrew Lang (director-producer) – Sons of Cuba

    Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching up 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba until first-time British director ANDREW LANG gained unprecedented access to the Havana Boxing Academy to make his film Sons of Cuba. The hand-picked group of 10-year-old boys who attend the Academy eat, breath, and sleep boxing. Lang’s film...

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