From Journalist To Sales Agent, Festival Head To Producer: Mike Goodridge On His Rare Journey & Ramping Up His Good Chaos Slate — Cannes
16.05.2024 - 06:37
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EXCLUSIVE: Mike Goodridge has been on a rare journey. Not many in the industry can boast a CV that includes running a trade publication, an international sales company, a film festival and being the producer of multiple Cannes Film Festival movies.
Goodridge, the former editor of Screen International, CEO of Protagonist, and artistic director of the Macao Film Festival, is on the Croisette this year with Un Certain Regard thriller Santosh. In the UK-Germany-France co-production by filmmaker Sandhya Suri, a government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh (Shahana Goswami) inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Filming begins this summer in Asia on Good Chaos/Nine Hours production for Netflix The Ballad Of A Small Player, Ed Berger’s next film starring Collin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. Goodridge is also producer on Baltasar Kormakur’s upcoming romance Touch for Focus and is gearing up on Son Of Saul director Laszlo Nemes’ next film Orphan, which is due to shoot later this year.
As we revealed yesterday, Goodridge’s growing production banner Good Chaos has recently had investment from London-based audio platform Alexander. We spoke to the London-based producer about his journey, the company’s slate and what’s next.
DEADLINE: Things are ramping up at Good Chaos. How are you finding it and can you tell us about the Alexander deal?
GOODRIDGE: Things are going well. We’ve recently had investment from the audio company Alexander, run by a producer I knew called Cameron Lamb. They make podcasts and audio dramas narrated by big actors.
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