Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S.
shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with British multi-hyphenate Charles Dorfman, who, through his two banners Samuel Marshall Films and Media Finance Capital, has worked across a range of titles from The Lost Daughter to 2nd Chance and his own directorial debut Barbarians.
In his first major interview, he outlines his ambitions as a writer-director and as a financier-producer. Charles Dorfman is coming off the back of a banner twelve months.
Not only did the British writer-director-producer see the release of his debut feature Barbarians but he also was a quiet fixture during the Oscar race this year, having produced Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter.Barbarians, which recently won the Jury’s Special Award at the Fantasporto Festival in Portugal earlier this month after it had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest last year, is a home-invasion thriller-satire starring Iwan Rheon, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Tom Cullen about a dinner party gone wrong.
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