Tessa Ross To Receive BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema Award
Channel 4 film and drama controller Tessa Ross heads up Film4, the feature division of the network that’s given a boost to such filmmakers as Stephen Daldry, Steve McQueen, Paddy Considine, Martin McDonagh and Richard Ayoade. Sometimes referred to as the “Mother of British filmmaking,” her recent exec producer credits include Seven Psycopaths, The Iron Lady and Shame. She’ll receive the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony on February 10. Among Film4′s upcoming productions are Danny Boyle’s Trance, Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, Ayoade’s The Double, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look Of Love and Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now. On the TV side, such series as Shameless, White Teeth and The Devil’s Whore have been commissioned during her tenure. Earlier in her career, Ross worked at the BBC and was a British Film Institute governor.
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