Jamie Leonard

Películas

Flor del desierto
Production Design
Como en un cuento de hadas, Waris Dirie, nacida en Somalia entre pastores nómadas, se convirtió en una de las modelos más solicitadas de la época. Recorrió un camino fascinante hasta pisar las pasarelas más famosas y ser portada de las mejores revistas de moda. A los 13 años huyó de una boda de conveniencia y anduvo días por el desierto antes de llegar a Mogadiscio, capital de Somalia. Allí, sus parientes la mandaron a trabajar como criada a la Embajada de su país en Londres, donde pasó la adolescencia sin saber leer ni escribir.
The Many Lives of Albert Walker
Production Design
After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.
Incognito
Production Design
Un falsificador de cuadros está a punto de abandonar su profesión cuando recibe un encargo multimillonario para reproducir un Rembrandt. Tras realizar un trabajo perfecto, sucede algo terrible
Un hombre sin importancia
Production Design
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Tom & Viv
Production Design
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). El joven poeta inglés Thomas S. Eliot corteja a Vivianne, la hija de una aristocrática familia. Como él carece de fortuna, la pareja decide huir para poder casarse. Eliot cuenta con la protección del filósofo Bertrand Russell. El matrimonio se instala en una modesta vivienda, y Eliot se ve obligado a aceptar un trabajo en un banco para poder salir adelante. Muy pronto la esposa del poeta muestra una personalidad desequilibrada que se manifiesta a través de continuos cambios de humor. Finalmente, el poeta consigue publicar su primer libro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Escapada al sur
Production Design
Un viudo acostumbrado a la vida nómada se establece en Dublín con sus hijos. Los jóvenes además cuidan a un caballo muy especial que les regaló su abuelo. Un drama familiar con guión de Jim Sheridan que cosechó muy buenas críticas.
We Think the World of You
Production Design
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
The Kitchen Toto
Production Design
En Kenia comienza la lucha por la independencia contra la soberanía británica. El padre de Mwangui es asesinado frente a este. Mwangui debe meterse a trabajar en la oficina del jefe de la policía local.
The Nature of the Beast
Production Design
A boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his own investigation. The so called beast however is also used as a metaphor for every day problems the townsfolk face.
Mona Lisa
Production Design
George es el chófer de una prostituta negra, alta y delgada, llamada Simone, cuyos clientes son hombres de negocios y árabes millonarios. Enamorado perdidamente de ella, George acepta buscar a una vieja amiga de Simone que se ha metido en un buen lío. Está dispuesto a ayudarlas aunque ello suponga enfrentarse a un chulo mafioso y a un obseso rey del porno que no deja de ser la sombra de su pasado. Pronto descubrirá algo que jamás podía imaginar, algo que podría destruir su propia vida.
Un pasado en sombras
Art Direction
En la imaginaria localidad inglesa de Wetherby, un hombre asiste sin ser invitado a una reunión en casa de la maestra Jean Travers. Al día siguiente, regresa y se suicida con amargura y paciencia delante de ella…
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
Production Design
An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.
Flying Into the Wind
Production Design
The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
Birth of a Nation
Production Design
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Loose Connections
Art Designer
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Loose Connections
Production Design
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Rating Notman
Art Direction
A BAFTA award nominated drama about a British POW's collaboration with the Nazis during WWII.
Made in Britain
Art Direction
After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.
Made in Britain
Production Design
After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.
At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)
Production Designer
A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.