Goalpost Pictures

Goalpost Film is a worldwide sales, financing and marketing company which executive produces and enables independent feature films. The two executive directors, Tristan Whalley and Nicki Parfitt joined forces in 2006 having worked together on films such as Saving Grace and Bloody Sunday. The company slate includes:

- Goalpost's first film Clubland, directed by Cherie Nowlan, produced by Rosemary Blight and starring Brenda Blethyn, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, securing substantial sales to Warner Bros and other major distributors internationally.

- The Escapist, directed by Rupert Wyatt, produced by Alan Moloney and Adrian Sturges, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Seu Jorge, the film was theatrically released by IFC in North America in April 2009.

- The acclaimed feature documentary Three Miles North of Molkom, directed by Robert Cannan and Corinna Villari-McFarlane, which had its first release in September 2009 through Metrodome in the United Kingdom.

- Closed for Winter, directed by James Bogle and starring Natalie Imbruglia, is produced by Goalpost's sister company in Australia, Goalpost Pictures. The film had its World Premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival and was released throughout Australia in April 2009.

- Jean Charles, directed by Henrique Goldman and produced by Carlos Nader, Goldman and Luke Schiller, stars Selton Mello as Jean Charles de Menezes - the Brazilian so tragically shot by the British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts. Rebecca O'Brien and Stephen Frears are Executive Producers. JEAN CHARLES is a UK/Brazilian co-production with funding from UK Film Council and the Imagem Group in Brazil. The film was released in Brazil in June 2009 and had it's international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

- Little Sister, written and directed by Richard Bowen, is based on the earliest telling of the Cinderella story, from ancient China. The film has an all-Chinese cast and introduces Xiao Min in the title role of Mei Mei. The film is currently in post-production.

- Goalpost Film has also recently taken on the international sales and licensing rights for Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson's classic Dances with Wolves, which won seven Oscars including Best Film at the 1990 Academy Awards, as well as Jim Wilson's Head Above Water starring Cameron Diaz.