Robyn Slovo

出生 : 1954-01-01,

略歴

Born in South Africa in 1954 as daughter to white anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First, she grew up in London after the family in 1964 arrived in the UK as political refugees. She started her career in theatre before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and Head of Development in the BBC Single Drama/Films department, where she was involved in films such as 'Mrs Brown' and Shane Meadows first film '24/7'. She has since then worked as a film producer for Company Pictures and Working Title Films. She lives in London and is the younger sister of screenwriter Shawn Slovo and novelist Gillian Slovo.

参加作品

スノーマン 雪闇の殺人鬼
Producer
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
The Two Faces of January
Producer
1962. A con artist, his wife, and a dangerous stranger are caught up in the murder of a private detective and are forced to try and escape Athens.
裏切りのサーカス
Producer
元MI6諜報員の経歴を持つ作家ジョン・ル・カレによる人気スパイ小説を、トーマス・アルフレッドソン監督が映画化したサスペンス。英国諜報組織の中枢に20年も潜入しているソ連の二重スパイを捜すため、引退生活から呼び戻されたスパイが敵味方の区別もつかない中で真相に迫る姿を描く。 東西冷戦下の1980年代、英国諜報部「サーカス」を引退したスパイ、スマイリー(ゲイリー・オールドマン)に新たな指令が下る。それは20年にわたってサーカスの中枢に潜り込んでいる二重スパイを捜し出し、始末するというものだった。膨大な記録や関係者の証言を基に、容疑者を洗い出していくスマイリーがたどり着いた裏切者の正体とは……。
Gimme Shelter
Producer
Gimme Shelter shows the work that UNHCR is doing to fulfill its mandate of protecting and supporting refugees around the globe by illustrative examples of critical UNHCR emergencies around the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact on neighboring countries, Uganda and Rwanda.
Mischief Night
Executive Producer
Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.
Catch a Fire
Producer
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
Alpha Male
Executive Producer
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
The Statement
Producer
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
Morvern Callar
Producer
After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
A Room for Romeo Brass
Story Editor
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.