Robert Little(III)
- Producer
- Additional Crew
The Little Film Company-owned by Robbie and Ellen Little-is a worldwide motion picture sales and marketing company which also finances, executive produces and distributes independent motion pictures. In addition, The Little Film Company also consults for diverse media companies.
Films which the company is currently exec-producing and selling include: Last Rampage starring Robert Patrick and directed by Dwight Little; The Fencer, directed by Klaus Haro; Northern Soul, directed by Elaine Constantine with Elliot Langridge and Steve Coogan; John Doe: Vigilante, starring Jamie Bamber; The Barber with Scott Glenn; The Third Half, directed by Darko Mitrevski; The Last Station with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and Christopher Plummer; It Might Get Loud a documentary featuring The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White; and The Eye of the Storm, directed by Fred Schepisi, with Geoffrey Rush and Charlotte Rampling. The Little Film Company also exec-produced Gavin Hood's Tsotsi which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Little Film Company also works with select, cutting-edge thrillers and genre-based films like Dark Awakening directed by Dean Jones; Dirty Weekend, directed by Christopher Graniere-Deferre; Scar Tissue, directed by Scott Michell; The Clinic, directed by James Rabbitts; Urban Explorers, directed by Andy Fetscher; War of the Dead, directed by Marko Makilaakso; The Prophecy franchise starring Christopher Walken and American Haunting, directed by Courtney Solomon and starring Donald Sutherland.
Robbie and Ellen have played a role in financing, producing and/or selling and distributing over 300 films, including the Irish comedy Waking Ned Devine (directed by Kirk Jones); Bruce Beresford's Irish drama Evelyn, starring Pierce Brosnan; Marleen Gorris's Antonia's Line, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; Eileen Atkins' adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Vanessa Redgrave; and Edoardo Ponti's Between Strangers, starring Sophia Loren. Other notable films include Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, starring Javier Bardem; John Sayles's The Secret of Roan Inish; A Map of the World, starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore; John Turturro's Illuminata, with Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Christopher Walken; Trading Mom, starring Sissy Spacek; Guncrazy, starring Drew Barrymore; and The Prophecy film franchise (with Christopher Walken).
Ellen Little developed and exec-produced Sir Ian McKellen's adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Sir Ian, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Both the Littles were Executive Producers of Julie Taymor's screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. They have championed first films from directors like Roland Emmerich (Ghost Chase and Moon 44) and Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters). Ellen also developed and produced The Boys from County Clare (directed by John Irvin, starring Andrea Corr and Colm Meaney) and exec-produced The Snow Walker (written and directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Barry Pepper).
Born and raised in Liverpool, England, Robbie Little started in the film business while living in Rome, Italy, eventually heading the foreign sales division of Titanus Distribution. A Harvard graduate student, Ellen was in Rome on a Fulbright, writing a thesis on Renaissance art and architecture. When Robbie and Ellen moved to Los Angeles, they co-founded Overseas Filmgroup, a foreign sales and production organization. Later they established First Look Media to package, finance and distribute motion pictures in the U.S.A. Founding members of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), the Littles are also founding members of The Archive Council, the industry support group for the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Archive Film Preservation Program. They support numerous scholarships funds which annually benefits deserving students in the UCLA Department of Film and Television, the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Films which the company is currently exec-producing and selling include: Last Rampage starring Robert Patrick and directed by Dwight Little; The Fencer, directed by Klaus Haro; Northern Soul, directed by Elaine Constantine with Elliot Langridge and Steve Coogan; John Doe: Vigilante, starring Jamie Bamber; The Barber with Scott Glenn; The Third Half, directed by Darko Mitrevski; The Last Station with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and Christopher Plummer; It Might Get Loud a documentary featuring The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White; and The Eye of the Storm, directed by Fred Schepisi, with Geoffrey Rush and Charlotte Rampling. The Little Film Company also exec-produced Gavin Hood's Tsotsi which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Little Film Company also works with select, cutting-edge thrillers and genre-based films like Dark Awakening directed by Dean Jones; Dirty Weekend, directed by Christopher Graniere-Deferre; Scar Tissue, directed by Scott Michell; The Clinic, directed by James Rabbitts; Urban Explorers, directed by Andy Fetscher; War of the Dead, directed by Marko Makilaakso; The Prophecy franchise starring Christopher Walken and American Haunting, directed by Courtney Solomon and starring Donald Sutherland.
Robbie and Ellen have played a role in financing, producing and/or selling and distributing over 300 films, including the Irish comedy Waking Ned Devine (directed by Kirk Jones); Bruce Beresford's Irish drama Evelyn, starring Pierce Brosnan; Marleen Gorris's Antonia's Line, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; Eileen Atkins' adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Vanessa Redgrave; and Edoardo Ponti's Between Strangers, starring Sophia Loren. Other notable films include Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, starring Javier Bardem; John Sayles's The Secret of Roan Inish; A Map of the World, starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore; John Turturro's Illuminata, with Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Christopher Walken; Trading Mom, starring Sissy Spacek; Guncrazy, starring Drew Barrymore; and The Prophecy film franchise (with Christopher Walken).
Ellen Little developed and exec-produced Sir Ian McKellen's adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Sir Ian, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Both the Littles were Executive Producers of Julie Taymor's screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. They have championed first films from directors like Roland Emmerich (Ghost Chase and Moon 44) and Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters). Ellen also developed and produced The Boys from County Clare (directed by John Irvin, starring Andrea Corr and Colm Meaney) and exec-produced The Snow Walker (written and directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Barry Pepper).
Born and raised in Liverpool, England, Robbie Little started in the film business while living in Rome, Italy, eventually heading the foreign sales division of Titanus Distribution. A Harvard graduate student, Ellen was in Rome on a Fulbright, writing a thesis on Renaissance art and architecture. When Robbie and Ellen moved to Los Angeles, they co-founded Overseas Filmgroup, a foreign sales and production organization. Later they established First Look Media to package, finance and distribute motion pictures in the U.S.A. Founding members of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), the Littles are also founding members of The Archive Council, the industry support group for the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Archive Film Preservation Program. They support numerous scholarships funds which annually benefits deserving students in the UCLA Department of Film and Television, the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and Howard University in Washington, D.C.
