John Battsek conceived and produced Passion Pictures' first feature, One Day in September, which went on to win an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary and an Emmy in 2000. John has since accrued a slate of over twenty acclaimed documentary films including Once in a Lifetime, Black Sun, In the Shadow of the Moon, My Kid Could Paint That and Sergio. Sundance 2010 saw the premiere of two new films: Restrepo, which opened the festival and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize, along with The Tillman Story which was acquired by The Weinstein Company. Both films were released theatrically in the U.S. this summer. Passion's completed film, Stones in Exile premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in Director's Fortnight.
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