James Mackay (born 1954) is a British film producer. He was born in

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and after studies at

North East London Polytechnic , mottoeng = Knowledge and the fulfilment of vows , established = 1898 – West Ham Technical Institute1952 – West Ham College of Technology1970 – North East London Polytechnic1989 – Polytechnic of East London ...

, he worked in the London Filmmaker's Co/op as cinema programmer. At the end of the 1970s, he compiled a series of film screenings called ''New British Avant -Garde'' films, for the

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, and he also programmed for the FORUM of the

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. In 1981, he established a production and distribution company Dark Picture, specializing in new film and video, and thus began his collaboration with

Derek Jarman Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, gardener and gay rights activist. Biography Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing Home ...

. He produced some of Derek Jarman's most important movies e.g. The Angelic Conversation (1985), The Garden (1990 film) or

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. He has collaborated also with

John Maybury John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay ...

Hannah Collins Hannah Collins (born 1956) is a British contemporary artist and film-maker. Collins' works treat the collective experiences of memory, history and the everyday in the modern world. She is known for her photographic installations, but has also made ...

, Davide Pepe and Bernard Rudden. In 2009, James Mackay was a member of a main jury of the Czech queer film festival

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Producer filmography

* '' In the Shadow of the Sun'' (1980) * ''Sloane Square: A Room of One's Own'' (1981) * ''T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven'' (1981) * ''Pirate Tape'' (1983) * ''What Can I Do with a Male Nude?'' (1985) * '' The Angelic Conversation'' (1985) * ''

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

'' (1986) * ''Aria'' (1987) * ''L'ispirazione'' (1988) * '' The Last of England'' (1988) * '' The Garden'' (1990) * ''The Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex'' (1992) * ''The Next Life'' (1993) * ''Projections'' (1993) * ''

'' (1993) * '' Glitterbug'' (1994) * ''Daybreak'' (2000) * ''Parallel'' (2007) * ''

Derek Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of '' Diederik'', the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of "people-ruler". Common variants of the name ar ...

'' (2008)

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James Mackay: Executive producer of Derek
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