As producer and managing director of independent film and television production company Slate Films, Andrea Calderwood has produced several feature films, including Mike Figgis’ experimental digital film Hotel; Shane Meadows’ Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, selected for Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2002; Cargo, premiered at Sundance in 2006; and Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland, winner of 3 Baftas and the Oscar for Forest Whitaker in 2007.
In 2007-8, Andrea produced HBO’s acclaimed Generation Kill with Company Pictures, a seven hour mini series which is a first hand account of a group of US Marines spearheading the 2003 invasion of Iraq, based on the award winning book by Evan Wright, and written by David Simon and Ed Burns, creators of The Wire. The mini-series was filmed in Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. She was also executive producer on Zig Zag Love, through Slate North with Machine Productions, a… read more
As producer and managing director of independent film and television production company Slate Films, Andrea Calderwood has produced several feature films, including Mike Figgis’ experimental digital film Hotel; Shane Meadows’ Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, selected for Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2002; Cargo, premiered at Sundance in 2006; and Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland, winner of 3 Baftas and the Oscar for Forest Whitaker in 2007.
In 2007-8, Andrea produced HBO’s acclaimed Generation Kill with Company Pictures, a seven hour mini series which is a first hand account of a group of US Marines spearheading the 2003 invasion of Iraq, based on the award winning book by Evan Wright, and written by David Simon and Ed Burns, creators of The Wire. The mini-series was filmed in Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. She was also executive producer on Zig Zag Love, through Slate North with Machine Productions, a ground-breaking new film from Scotland, being directed by Gillies Mackinnon.
Slate Films has broad experience of international production and co-production, having worked in Canada, Ghana, Italy, Spain, India, Sweden, and Uganda as well as the southern African countries above. The company has a wide range of film and TV projects in development with UK and international financiers.
From 1997 to 2000, Andrea was Head of Production at Pathe Pictures, where she was executive producer of 8 feature films, including Oliver Parker’s An Ideal Husband, Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Michael Winterbottom’s The Claim, and teen horror The Hole.
Andrea was previously Head of Drama at BBC Scotland from 1994 – 1997, where she was responsible for commissioning series, mini-series, including Hamish Macbeth, The Crow Road, Cardiac Arrest, and films including Gillies Mackinnon’s Small Faces and John Madden’s Oscar-nominated Mrs Brown.
Andrea began her career as a freelance production manager and location manager in Scotland, working on a range of features, documentaries and TV series, and also ran the independent company Crash Films, producing documentaries, short dramas and music videos. She is a graduate of EAVE in 1991.
Andrea is currently vice-chair of Film at Pact, is a former governor of the National Film and Television School, and a former board member of Scottish Screen. —The Script Factory
