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Alex Francis worked as a screenwriter, producer, director, and script editor, before taking up
the position of Head of Development at Trudie Styler’s Xingu Films in 1999. During his time
there, the company has made 11 feature-length films, including Lock Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels, Greenfingers, and Dito Montiel’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which was his first
film at Xingu as a Producer. The film won two Special Jury Awards at Sundance, Best Film at
Venice International Critics Week, and was distributed worldwide in 2006.
Francis was Co-Producer on the science-fiction film Moon, directed by Duncan Jones and
starring Sam Rockwell, which premiered at Sundance in 2009, where it was picked up by Sony
Pictures. Moon went on to win Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards, as well as
winning a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by director Duncan Jones. Current producing projects
for Alex include American Reaper, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Pat Mills and Clint
Langley (of “Judge Dredd” and “Marshall Law” fame), The Outlander, an adaptation of the
celebrated Western novel by Gil Adamson, and The Harder They Come, a modern day reworking
of Perry Henzell’s 1974 Jamaican classic, which introduced reggae to the world.
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