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Paul Andrew Whittaker (born January 1967) [1] is the founder of the British film distributor Dogwoof, which focuses on films about social issues and documentaries, such as Food, Inc. and Burma VJ .
On 24 September 2010, The Guardian published a one-off Film Power 100 list, on which Whittaker was ranked the 86th most influential figure on British cinema audiences. [2]
In 2015 he was included in the Evening Standard Progress 1000 list, for 'London's most influential people 2015 - Film'. [3]
The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a fictitious stately home near Oxford, England. In 1956, he takes a road trip to visit a former colleague, and reminisces about events at Darlington Hall in the 1920s and 1930s.
Dogwoof is a film-distribution company based in the United Kingdom.
Vertigo Films is a British television and film production company based in London, England. Vertigo Films has been responsible for the production and distribution of Bronson, StreetDance 3D, and Monsters. It now focuses solely on the production of television series, with subsidiary company Vertigo Releasing taking over film distribution.
Nicolai Frahm is a London-based Danish art advisor, exhibition producer, collector, and the co-founder of Frahm & Frahm and Dairy Art Centre, a contemporary art gallery in London which closed in 2014.
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Franny Armstrong is a British documentary film director working for her own company, Spanner Films, and a former drummer with indie pop group The Band of Holy Joy. She is best known for three films: The Age of Stupid, a reflection from 2055 about climate change, McLibel, about the McDonald's court case and Drowned Out, following the fight against the Narmada Dam Project.
Sir Wayne McGregor, CBE is a British choreographer and director who has won multiple awards. He is the Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet. McGregor was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 2011 for Services to Dance.
Dopplr was a free social networking service, launched in 2007, that allowed users to create itineraries of their travel plans and spot correlations with their contacts' travel plans in order to arrange meetings at any point on their journey. Additional features included allowing the user to calculate the carbon footprint their journeys have produced. The site was named after Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect. The company was based in the "Silicon Roundabout" area of London.
John Whittaker is a British billionaire. He is chairman of the Peel Group, a property business that mainly invests in North West England. Although publicity-shy, he has been described as one of the most influential business leaders for Greater Manchester and the North West by the Manchester Evening News (2007), and was named the most influential northerner by The Big Issue magazine in 2010.
Sir Howard Hugh Panter is a British theatre impresario and theatre operator. With his wife Rosemary Squire he ran the Ambassador Theatre Group from about 1995 until 2016; they remain directors and shareholders of the company. When they left the active management of ATG, they bought Trafalgar Studios, which became the centre of a new company, Trafalgar Entertainment.
Carolyn Dailey is a British-American entrepreneur and commentator. Based in London, she was formerly Time Warner's top executive in Europe. In 2016, she launched Creative Entrepreneurs, a membership-based learning and networking platform to help creative people build successful businesses in the creative industries.
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Amanda Sonia Berry, OBE is the chief executive officer of the Royal Foundation. She also served as CEO of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) between December 2000 and October 2022.
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Dame Rosemary Anne Squire, DBE is a British commercial theatre owner and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) Ltd. Squire and co-founder of Trafalgar Entertainment.
Jessica Asato is a British Labour Party political adviser and former local councillor. She was selected in 2012 as the parliamentary candidate for Norwich North at the 2015 general election.
Ged Doherty is a British film and music industry executive. Formerly the chairman of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and BRIT Awards Limited and the chairman and CEO of Sony Music UK, he is the CEO and co-founder of Raindog Films.
Stefan Paul Allesch-Taylor CBE FKC is a British entrepreneur, philanthropist, broadcaster, and educator. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours and was appointed as the first Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship by King's College London in December 2016. He was made a Fellow of King's College London in 2020
Andrew Kidd Hon. FRSL, is a British publisher, who has served as the CEO of the Arvon Foundation since 2019. He co-founded the Folio Prize in 2014, and serves as its chair. In 2023, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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