Mike Downey, producer, (MD - Film and Music Entertainment), launched his independent UK production company on the Frankfurt DAX 8 years ago. He has produced, since then 30 feature films, with producing partner Sam Taylor and company chairman Stephen Daldry.

F&ME’s catalogue includes UKFC funded White Lightnin’, Saul Metzstein’s GUY X, Deathwatch (Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis), Academy Award nominated Before The Rain and a slew of international co-productions written by Gunter Grass, Thomas Keneally, James Ellroy and Clifford (HOAX) Irving. His award winning South African production Son of Man, premiered at Sundance, as did White Lightnin’ while Loving Glances, opened the Venice Film Festival.

Serving his fifth year as European Film Academy Board Member, Downey’s books The Film Finance Handbooks - a Guide for European Producers are published by the MEDIA Business School. Educated in Theatre: University of Warwick, with postgraduate studies at the University of Paris III (Sorbonne), and X (Nanterre), he has long taught on the MEGA European Masters programme.

In his spare time he is Thomas Ewing Professor of Film (Ohio University) and on the Film Board Oklahoma University and also is President of the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia. He works closely with Amnesty International establishing Amnesty Human Rights Awards. Downey is a consultant for USAID the American government programme rebuilding infrastructure (film) in the Balkans.

Films currently in post production include: The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre by Julius Kemp , Donkey and A Congregation of Ghosts by Mark Colicott. Films directed/written by Renny Harlin, Dominic Murphy, Richard Lowenstein, Martin Koolhoven, David Grossman are slated for 2009 shoots.

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