Daisy Allsop – Producer
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Daisy recently produced “The Puppet Asylum” the first film by a writer-director with Down Syndrome to be commissioned by a British broadcaster. It’s an allegorical comedy horror biopic starring Paul Kaye, Rebecca Callard, Myanna Buring, with Dexter Fletcher and Adeel Akhtar which won the ‘auteur award’ for Otto at the British Short Film Awards.
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Simultaneously the team made feature documentary “Otto Baxter: Not a F**king Horror Story” by BAFTA winning documentary makers Bruce Fletcher and Peter Beard, about Otto’s process of making the film as a way to confront his demons. Both films, co-productions with Story Films, were commissioned by Sky and released theatrically in the UK in September ’23 to huge critical acclaim.
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In 2022 Daisy produced, together with Pie Films, a UK-Israel co-production – ‘My Happy Ending’ starring Andie Macdowell, Miriam Margolyes, Sally Phillips, Tamsin Greig, Rakhee Thakrar and Tom Cullen. The film was supported by the BFI Global Fund, released theatrically in the US and then worldwide through Universal.
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Her previous film was ‘Tell It To The Bees’, a BFI-funded period drama starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger which premiered in Special Presentation at Toronto Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2019. She produced Screen Star of Tomorrow David Leon’s feature ‘Orthodox’ starring Stephen Graham and Michael Smiley which was longlisted for a BIFA for Best Debut Director and theatrically released in 2016.
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Daisy began in development and distribution, then acquisitions for sales agent financier Capitol Films. She was Associate Producer on ‘Five Children & It’ and as head of development for Feel Films she managed a slate of literary adaptations including ‘The Song of Names’. She was Associate Producer on ‘Skellig’ starring Tim Roth and Kelly Macdonald and Associate Producer on Enlightenment Films award winning ‘The World Unseen’ and ‘I Can’t Think Straight’.
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Daisy was selected for prestigious career-acceleration programme Inside Pictures in 2023. In 2015 Daisy took part in Rotterdam Producer’s Lab, Creative England’s Market Trader, and Lighthouse’s Guiding Lights schemes. As a writer she is represented at Casarotto Ramsay.
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​Daisy consults as Head of Acquisitions & Development for sales agent West End Films.
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