Andrew Macdonald, Danny Boyle’s long-time producer, recalls the first time he met with U.K. exhibition icon Clare Binns, who will receive the BAFTA Special Award on Sunday for her Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema.
Macdonald met Binns at the time he and Boyle screened their first-ever feature, “Shallow Grave.” They had hoped to have the film selected at Cannes in 1994, but failed, so showed it as a market screening there instead. Binns attended, and loved the film, Macdonald tells Variety. “She was incredibly enthusiastic about it, and she was an exhibitor who actually wanted to put the film in a cinema, and I was so delighted. And
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