Marcel Grant

Marcel Grant
Born	19 July 1961 (1961-07-19) (age 50) London, England, United Kingdom
Residence	London, England, UK
Nationality	British
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter. Film producer
Years active	2000 - present

Marcel Grant (born 19 July 1961) is a filmmaker based in London. He established the independent film production company Dancing Brave Pictures in 2004. He has written and directed two feature films Just Inès and Coffee Sex You, as well as mid-length film What’s Your Name 41?

Grant was born in London on 19 July 1961. He was a boarder at Reed's School in Cobham, Surrey. Upon leaving, he then had various successful ventures as a performer in the music industry and running a London nightclub where he was strongly involved in the New Romantic scene of the 1980s. Later, he moved into property development.

Grant first entered the film industry by co-founding the production company Pagoda in the late 1990s. Here, he found critical and commercial success with the 2000 film Gangster No. 1 starring Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell. That same year, deciding that he wanted to learn how to direct his own films he attended the New York Film Academy in London. He then established the independent production company Shipwreck Film, under the title of which he made five short films: Shoot All The People; A Deal Is A Deal; Burning City; Mr Know-It-All; and I Own You. The final film he directed with Shipwreck was What’s Your Name 41? in 2005.^[1] As the film has a running time of 43 minutes it is neither a short nor a feature but a mid-length film or moyen-métrage. Grant used some of the contacts he had made at film school as crew on the shoot. The film was shown at various festivals in the UK and abroad, including Directors Lounge in Berlin, Cannes Short Film Corner and the California Independent Film Festival.

Shipwreck Film then became Dancing Brave Pictures, the company with which Grant has written, directed and produced two feature films: Just Inès and Coffee Sex You.

Just Inès stars the French actress Caroline Ducey, famed for her portrayal of a sexually frustrated teacher in Catherine Breillat’s controversial 1999 film Romance. Just Inès had its world premier at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 2010^[2] was then screened at the Cairo International Film Festival^[3] and FEST in Belgrade, Serbia.^[4]

Coffee Sex You is currently in post-production with an aim for 2011 release.

Grant is set to develop and shoot two new films as writer and director, F**k Navarro and Did I Tell You That I Almost Love You.

There is also a full-length documentary about the troubled making of What’s Your Name 41? currently in post-production with the title What's Your Name 41?: A Look Behind The Scenes. This was announced by the Internet release of a taster featurette in February 2011.^[5]

Directing Credits

• What's Your Name 41? (Mid-Length) (2005)
• Just Inès (2010)
• Coffee Sex You (2011)

Screenwriting Credits

• What's Your Name 41? (Mid-Length) (2005)
• Just Inès (2010)
• Coffee Sex You (2011)

Producing Credits

• Gangster No. 1 (2000)
• What's Your Name 41? (Mid-Length) (2005)
• Just Inès (2010)
• Coffee Sex You (2011)

1. ^ "Marcel Grant Starts Shooting Third Feature Just Inès". http://www.screendaily.com/marcel-grant-starts-shooting-third-feature-just-ines/4033170.article. 
2. ^ "Rheinpfalz Marcel Grant Article in German". http://dancingbravepictures.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/marcel-grant-rheinpfalz.jpg. 
3. ^ "Marcel Grant Interview with Rooms Magazine". http://roomsmagazine.blogspot.com/2010/11/dancing-brave-pictures-i.html?spref. 
4. ^ "Marcel Grant Interview with Fest.rs". http://www.fest.rs/2011/page.php?id=145. 
5. ^ "What's Your Name 41?:A Look Behind The Scenes". http://dancingbravepictures.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/what’s-your-name-41-a-look-behind-the-scenes/. 

• Marcel Grant at the Internet Movie Database
• Dancing Brave Picture at the Internet Movie Database
• http://fest.rs/2011/page.php?id=145 Interview with FEST Belgrade International Film Festival (February 2011)

Persondata
Name	Grant, Marcel
Alternative names	Grant, Marcel
Short description	Film director
Date of birth	1961-7-19
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death
Place of death