Christos Michaels founded Sound Films with Andy Gordon and has many years’ experience of the business side of the film industry.
In addition to his involvement with Sound, Christos is a partner at leading entertainment law firm of Lee & Thompson representing distributors, sales agents, financiers and a range of new and established producers. The firm recently represented the producers of Oscar winners “The Last King of Scotland” and “The Queen”.
He joined in 2006 from Mel Gibson's Icon UK Group, where for several years he was in charge of business affairs for development, sales agency, finance, production and distribution in the UK, Australia and internationally. Christos worked on a huge variety of films there such as “Apocalypto”, “What Women Want” and “It’s a Boy Girl Thing”.
Before that he was at Harbottle & Lewis where he acted for producers, financiers, actors and agents on films such as “East is East” and “Kevin & Perry”. He was trained at magic circle City law firm Linklaters.
Christos was one of the 14 UK film executives selected in 2004 to attend the “Inside Pictures” fast track networking scheme in London and Los Angeles.
The first film produced by Christos and Andy Gordon at Sound was “Hibernation”, the international multi award winning short by John Williams. |