Piers Tempest
Producer

After leaving the University of Bristol with a first class degree, Piers started his career in film at Working Title Films and then left to pursue freelance work for Director’s such as Philip Kaufman on Fox Searchlight’s Quills.

Moving from physical production into development, Tempest worked as a consultant on several films for a London based financier including Gillies Mckinnon’s Pure, the BAFTA-nominated American Cousins and John Henderson’s Two Men Went to War.

Tempest has produced several short films including the multi award winning Subterfugue. He recently co-produced the James Toback New York set feature film When Will I Be Loved starring Neve Campbell which IFC Films released domestically and First Look bought for the rest of the world.

In 2004 he produced the feature film Oyster Farmer directed by Anna Reeves, which was nominated for ‘Best Picture’ in the 2005 AFI Awards. More recently he produced the $10m Like Minds starring Toni Collette which filmed in Australia and Yorkshire and was released by The Weinstein Company in the USA, Lionsgate in the UK and MGM in Asia.

Tempest heads production for Buena Onda. He oversaw and co-produced the company’s Latin American and UK projects including Toronto Film Festival winner Cochochi and Tribeca hit The Workshop.

Tempest recently executive produced Coffin Rock for Wolf Creek producer David Lightfoot which was filmed in the Autumn of 2008 and produced The Caller starring Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer and Luis Guzmán which was acquired by Sony for distribution in North America and Universal in the UK.

In 2010 he produced the comedy Killing Bono starring Ben Barnes and Pete Postlethwaite which Paramount released in the UK in April 2011. In 2011 he produced the Sony-backed Irish horror comedy Grabbers.

He is currently producing Twist 3D, a modern day re-conception of Oliver Twist set in a parkour street gang which will shoot in the summer of 2011.

Tempest is an alumnus of the prestigious Inside Pictures training programme and was a board member of the successful Bradford City of Film UNESCO Bid.

Recent credits

Killing Bono
2011 | Dir. Nick Hamm| Starring: Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan and Krysten Ritter
as Producer

Caller
2011 | Dir. Matthew Parkhill| Starring: Stephen Moyer, Rachelle Lefevre and Luis Guzmán
as Producer

Coffin Rock
2009 | Dir. Rupert Glasson| Starring: Robert Taylor, Lisa Chappell and Sam Parsonson
as Executive Producer

Cochochi
2007 | Dir. Israel Cardenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán | Starring: Evaristo Batista & Luis Antonio Batista
as Co-Producer

The Workshop
2007 | Dir. Jamie Morgan
as Producer

Like Minds
2006 | Dir. Gregory J. Read | Starring: Toni Collette, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge
as Producer

Zoot Circus
2005 | Dir. Arlen Figgis, James Goring, Spencer Pratchett | Starring: Dan Cates, Rodney Clarke, Tom Crowe, Pete King, Slam
as Executive Producer

Oyster Farmer
2004 | Dir. Anna Reeves | Starring: Alex O'Lachlan, Jim Norton, Diana Glenn
as Producer
- London Australian Film Festival 2005 - Audience Award
- Australian FIlm Institute - AFI Award nominations for Best Cinematography (Alun Bollinger) and Best Film
- IF Awards - IF Award nominations for Best Cinematography (Alun Bollinger) and Best Production Design (Steven Jones-Evans).

When Will I Be Loved
2004 | Dir. James Toback | Starring: Neve Campbell, Fred Weller, Ashley Shelton
as Co-Producer

Eleven59
2001 | Dir. Richard Johnson | Staring: Molly Hallam
as Producer.

Subterfugue
2000 | Dir. Richard Johnson | Starring: Jean de Villeneuve, Kate Orr
as Producer.