The Insider Interviews

The Insider Interviews: Beth Pattinson

The Insider Interviews series started in 2010 as a set of recorded interviews, featuring the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Gareth Unwin, who produced THE KING’S SPEECH, Ben Wheatley and Hossein Amini, the Oscar-nominated writer of DRIVE and THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY.

You can watch these here.

The Insider Interviews now exist as live monthly events in central London, which is a combination of a compered interview and questions from audience members. If you would like to check out future speakers and join an Insider Interviews Live evening, you can see more details here.

 

BETH PATTINSON

 

Studied Drama & Film Studies at Manchester University and then moved to London in 2000.  She started off working as an assistant to Literary Agent Jessica Sykes at ICM (Now Independent Talent) for 2 years before moving to Redwave Films to work with Uberto Pasolini (producer of The Full Monty).  Beth then worked briefly at BBC In-House Drama (now morphed into BBC Studios) for Sally Woodward Gentle when she was acting head before becoming a Development Editor at BBC Films.

She stayed at BBC Films for 11 years working her way up to Exec Producer before leaving in 2017 and joining Amazon as Head of Development for European Originals.  Beth left Amazon in the summer of 2018 and is currently freelance.

This Q & A was compered by Rosie Fletcher, Movies Editor at Digital Spy.

 

 

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