After a sixteen-year career in investment banking producer Gareth Wiley has spent the last six years bringing film and music projects to life.
Since 2004, he has produced four features for Woody Allen having persuaded the New Yorker to move his 2004 movie to London and in January 2009 won a Best Picture Golden Globe for Woody’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. This was Gareth’s second Golden Globe nomination in four years, having been previously nominated in 2006 for his first collaboration with Woody Allen, Match Point.
Gareth studied Business with Economics & Law, before starting his working life as a banker in February 1985. A fascination with the creative process resulted in an involvement in film finance and production as early as 1993. Prior to working with Woody Allen, he maintained a career in investment banking (working in London, Hong Kong and the United States) in parallel with an increasing involvement in film finance and in 2002 committed himself… read more
After a sixteen-year career in investment banking producer Gareth Wiley has spent the last six years bringing film and music projects to life.
Since 2004, he has produced four features for Woody Allen having persuaded the New Yorker to move his 2004 movie to London and in January 2009 won a Best Picture Golden Globe for Woody’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. This was Gareth’s second Golden Globe nomination in four years, having been previously nominated in 2006 for his first collaboration with Woody Allen, Match Point.
Gareth studied Business with Economics & Law, before starting his working life as a banker in February 1985. A fascination with the creative process resulted in an involvement in film finance and production as early as 1993. Prior to working with Woody Allen, he maintained a career in investment banking (working in London, Hong Kong and the United States) in parallel with an increasing involvement in film finance and in 2002 committed himself to working exclusively in film and other creative businesses.
Previous Credits
Tracker (2010: in Post Prod.)
Ian Sharp – Ray Winstone; Temuera Morrison
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Woody Allen – Penelope Cruz; Javier Bardem
Cassandra’s Dream (2007)
Woody Allen – Ewan McGregor; Colin Farrell
Scoop (2006)
Woody Allen – Scarlett Johansson; Hugh Jackman
Match Point (2005)
Woody Allen – Scarlett Johansson; Jonathan Rhys-Myers
Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
Michael Petroni – Helena Bonham-Carter; Guy Pearce
Muggers (2000)
Dean Murphy – Jason Barry; Matt Day
Green Monkey (1998)
Rob Sprackling – Steven Elliot; John R. Smith
Funny Man (1994)
Simon Sprackling – Christopher Lee; Ingrid Lacey
Current Projects
MAGIC BUS
Director ALEX GIBNEY (Oscar for Taxi To The Darkside). A new feature-documentary, in cooperation with Martin Scorsese’s film preservation archive at the UCLA.
COMEDOWN
Director MENHAJ HUDA (Kidulthood). An urban thriller, set in a derelict tower block in London’s east end. Shooting scheduled for Summer 2010
A RICHER DUST:
Director: TBC. An epic Edwardian love-story set against the political turmoil of the suffragette movement and a Europe spiralling towards war.
Based in the UK, Gareth’s production company, PHOENIX WILEY, is developing a number of feature projects with budgets ranging from $4 to $30 million, all of which are intended to be of broad appeal to an international market. —The Script Factory
