The Team One Minute Past Midnight Directed by Celia Galan Julve Produced by Paola Minazzato and Lachlan MacKinnon Intrepido Limited Financed by UK Film Council and Film Four (FilmFour) as part of Cinema Extreme 2004

The team

Celia Galan Julve Writer/Director

Celia Galan Julve graduated from the MA in Animation Direction at the Royal College of Art in 2002. Her graduation film “Historia Del Desierto” has screened at over fifty festivals worldwide, including Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival , where her film won the Second Prize at the Cinefondation section. “Historia del Desierto” has also won “Best Animated Short Film” at the Ninth Annual IFP Los Angeles Film Festival , “Best Animated Short” at the Philadelphia Film Festival , “ The Medallion PFA Award for Best Student Film” at the 16th Images Festival in Toronto (Canada) , as well as other prizes in San Roque International Film Festival (Cadiz, Spain), Granada International Film Festival (Spain) and an honourable mention at the Palm Springs Film Festival. From November 2003 to June 2004 Celia attended the Artist-In-Residence Programme sponsored by the DAAD in Berlin.

Paola Minazzato Producer

A graduate of the MEDIA BUSINESS SCHOOL in Spain, Paola worked as a script analyst for a number of companies, including British Screen, the UK Film Council, Pathé Pictures and Intermedia Films. Previously, Paola worked in various production capacities in the UK as well as in her native Italy, including script supervising on such productions as Mrs Dalloway directed by Oscar™ winning director Marleen Gorris, and B. Monkey, directed by Michael Radford for Miramax Films. Paola was in charge of Marketing and Distribution at Snowman Enterprises, responsible for marketing, licensing and distributing award winning children’s classics, while working closely with producer Iain Harvey (A Christmas’ Carol, The Snowman, When The Wind Blows). After three years spent in Vienna, Canada and Milan, Paola finally settled in London in 1996, where she graduated from the London Institute with a MA in Film Studies.

In 2003 Paola commissioned emerging talent Celia Galan Julve to adapt her award winning animation “Historia Del Desierto” into a live action feature film, which was selected for the Cinefondation Residence iIn 2004. At the same time, Paola enabled Celia to make the transition from animation to live action by commissioning and nurturing her to write “One Minute Past Midnight”, which was one of the projects awarded production funding through Cinema Extreme in 2004.

Lachlan MacKinnon Producer

Before setting up Intrepido in 2002, Lachlan worked for European public film financier EURIMAGES and as an independent television producer for ITV, Carlton and Talkback Thames, for which he produced over fifty episodes of ITV flagship drama series The Bill. Lachlan produced two of last year's CINEMA EXTREME films financed by FILMFOUR and the UK FILM COUNCIL. A graduate from the prestigious NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL in the UK and the MEDIA BUSINESS SCHOOL in Spain, Lachlan brings a wealth of production experience to the Company, having worked extensively as a Production Manager and as a Line Producer, both on independent films and television. In 2004 Lachlan was one of the producers featured in Screen International as one of Britain’s “most exciting new talent”.

Director of Photography Natasha Braier

A graduate from the Cinematography MA course of the National Film and Television School, Natasha has shot and lit over than 20 short films, including Sand (Dir: Alexis Dos Santos), Swimming In A Sick Head (Dir: Victoria Hung, nominated for the Royal TV Animation Awards), Breaking Out and The Look of Happiness (dir: Marianela Maldonado, screened at Cannes 2002' Cinefondation, London International Film Festival, and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival), as well as commercials and pop promos, both in Spain and the UK, for such clients as Prudential, Movistar, BMW, The Stereophonics and Oasis. Natasha also shot several documentaries for Channel 4 and Canal Plus, winning Best Cinematography in the New York Festival for the documentary Life and Death in Exmoor. Natasha has worked as a first unit video camera operator on the Ridley Scott/Jerry Bruckheimer film Black Hawk Down , and as a second unit director on Isabel Coixet/El Deseo film My Life Without Me .

Casting Director Joan McCann

Joan began work as an administrator with the Youth and Theatre in Education department at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. Joan later joined the casting department at Granada Television where she remained for 6 years. After leaving Granada she worked as an agent for a year but found she preferred casting and became a freelance Casting Director working in television for the BBC, and ITV, and independent production companies such a Box TV, Red, Coastal World, Blast, and feature films. She has worked with several directors including Lewis Gilbert, Damien O'Donnell, Marc Evans and Paul Morrison whose film 'Soloman & Gaenor' was nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for Best Foreign Film.

Music Composed and Performed by The Archie Bronson Outfit

The band, consisting of Mark Cleveland, Dorian Hobday and Sam Windett, signed to Domino records (Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, Clinic, Will Oldham, Smog) in 2003. The Archie Bronson Outfit release their eagerly awaited debut album 'FUR' in July 2004.