Director & Founder of Bridge Way Ltd (recipient of the BFI Vision
Award 3), Chris Hees is a BAFTA winning, Oscar nominated producer and alumnus
of the National Film and Television School. His BAFTA winning animation, “The Bigger Picture,” along with his
live action short, “How I Didn’t Become A
Piano Player”, racked up over 200 festival screenings and 75 awards between
them.
With one hand on the pulse of the UK film industry in London, and the
other on the thriving energy of regional filmmaking, Chris produces talent-led
films with appeal beyond the UK. His current slate, a mixture of live-action
and animation, includes adaptations, comedies, thrillers and period dramas –
each project being packaged to suit its position within the international
market.
At the end of 2018 he co-produced Nathalie Biancheri’s London Film
Festival selected debut feature, “Nocturnal”,
and he’s currently in production on two animations: Bexie Bush’s eagerly
anticipated “The Rumour Mill” and the
BFI backed “KNOT” by Marie
Lechevallier
Chris was on the board of trustees for Hull’s City of Culture 2017 and is
passionately committed to ensuring a strong legacy continues. He is on the
steering group for BSF Future Leaders Programme and an active attendee of the
UK’s Producer Roundtable.
Chris is also a two-time alumnus of the Berlinale Talents Campus. Working
with UK-based European filmmakers such as Tommaso Pitta (“Little Boy Blue”) and Weronika Tofilska (“The Fall”) has allowed him to build a growing expertise and
network within the world of European co-productions.
Millie is a BAFTA-nominated producer, trained at the National Film and Television School. Her short film THE ALAN DIMENSION, premiered at the 69th Festival de Cannes and was in competition at more than 80 international festivals.
FUEL TO FIRE (dir. Sam McMullen) was in competition at Clermont-Ferrand for Best International Short Film. The film stars BAFTA-nominated George MacKay (Captain Fantastic, 1971).
Her latest short film, DỌLÁPỌ̀ IS FINE was backed by Bumble’s Female Film Force, and selected from projects across Europe to be mentored by Sister’ Pictures’ Jane Featherstone (CHERNOBYL). She also co-produced short film KNOT in 2020 with Chris Hees for the BFI.
