Sands Films
Films and Productions


Sands Films supplies production services and facilities to outside and foreign producers
as well as for its own films.
When working for outside producers Sands Films can supply a variety of packages from the supply of a single office as UK base to a full production deal delivering sets, costumes, shipping and production base
including legal and accounting support.
Over the years Sands Films has been involved with a number of very varied productions such as:
"Death On The Nile" and all the Agatha Christie films of EMI
"A Passage To India"
"7 Years In Tibet"
Also:
"A Dangerous Man", "The Long Day Closes", "Foreign Moon" and "The Butterfly Effect"

"Napoleon", "Robinson Crusoe", "Nouvelle France" and "Les Trois Mousquetaires"
More recently, sands Films has serviced films such as: "Pride and Prejudice", "The Other Boleyn Girl",
and "The Young Victoria"

The stage has also been used as a recording studio for a munber of film music
and to record classical and jazz music.
Click here to read about Pierre de la Rue and his Christmas Mass.

FILMS of Christine Edzard.
Below is the list productions directly linked to Sands Films as a producer and studio.
Currently each title is only linked to their respective IMDB page
we will update info, pictures and production note to each of these titles...

Tales Of Beatrix Potter
A 1971 feature film production written and designed by Christine Edzard
based on the now world famous work of Beatrix Potter.
With the dancers of the Royal Ballet.
Choreographed By Frederick Ashton.
(Now available on DVD)

Stories From a Flying Trunk
A feature film made with three short films written and directed by Christine Edzard
and based on the stories of Hans Christian Andersen
With the dancers of the Royal Ballet.
Choreographed By Frederick Ashton.


The Nightingale
A short animation film written and directed by Christine Edzard
 based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen

Biddy
A Feature film written and directed by Christine Edzard about the life of a nanny in 1860.
With Celia Bannerman.

Little Dorrit

A major feature film in two parts written and directed by Christine Edzard
based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
With Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack
Miriam Margolyes, Joan Greenwood, Roshan Seth
Eleanor Bron, Patricia Hayes, Max Wall
and many others.
Released in 1987 this film was shows as a 6 hours event.
(Now available on DVD)

 
The Fool
A  feature film written and directed by Christine Edzard
based on the work of Henry Mayhew investigating people's life in 1850's London.
With Derek Jacobi, Cyril Cusack, Corin Redgrave
Michael Horden, Miranda Richardson, Maria Aitken
Irina Brook, Don Henderson
and again many others.
(Now available on DVD)


As You Like It

A  feature film written and directed by Christine Edzard
based on the play by William Shakespeare.
With Cyril Cusack, James Fox
Griff Rhys Jones, Miriam Margolyes
Ewen Bremner, Don Henderson
and again many others.
(Now available on VHS and DVD)

The IMAX Nutcracker
This is an odd film again written and directed by Christine Edzard.
It tells the story of the Nutcracker without any of the ballet.
The first IMAX 3D produced and shot in Europe
not often shown by the IMAX corporation who was desapointed by the result...


The Children's
Midsummer Night Dream

A  feature film written and directed by Christine Edzard
based on the play by William Shakespeare.
With a cast of 364 local children aged between 8 and 12.
Children don't act. Acting is a grown-up thing. Acting requires experience, self-knowledge, self-awareness, all manner of tricks and skills, `turnings and windings'. But children play. They play at being someone else, a character. And that requires honesty, great earnestness and intense faith. It requires believing in what you are playing totally. An actor who ceases to believe in the character he portrays can get by through habit and devices. A child who ceases to believe in what he or she plays just stops. The thing ceases to exist. The child who plays, sees, hears, feels the character and the action. The actor sees, hears, feels himself in the character, engaged in the action. Actors have skill, technique; actors are artists. Children who play are rough and clumsy, awkward. Actors embellish. Children who play speak plain and rush to the point. Actors take themselves seriously. The children take the play seriously. And we should take the children seriously. For here, the play comes first. And what a play!
(Now available on VHS and DVD)


and another two small films:

Old Ways New Ways  
A documentary directed by Olivier Stockman about the Peek Freans biscuit factory in Bermondsey
and its closing down in the late 1980's. This film also looks back at nearly 100 years of the factory's
life and shows footage of an earlier 1906 documentary.
(Now available on DVD)

Amhal And The Night Visitors  
A filmed recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera at the Spoletto Festival 1997
with sets and costumes designed by Christine Edzard.
(available on VHS)


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