Jonathan Sothcott

Jonathan Sothcott

producer, writer, casting director

Jonathan Sothcott was born on Apr 26, 1980 in UK. Jonathan Sothcott's big-screen debut came with Wishbaby directed by Stephen W. Parsons in 2007.

Jonathan already has a dozen feature films under his belt as a producer and is recognised as one of the most dynamic and proactive production talents in the UK.Briefly a journalist, he was running a TV channel by the time he was 24 and worked in acquisitions and as a producer for the likes of Anchor Bay and MGM, before changing gears and moving into feature film production in 2006 with the acclaimed urban horror movie Wishbaby. Forming Black & Blue Films with Martin Kemp in early 2007 he steered their slate from script to screen producing such diverse fare as stylish thriller Stalker (written and directed by Kemp and starring Jane March), comedy Just For The Record (starring Danny Dyer and Rik Mayall), vampire/gangster action film Dead Cert (starring Dyer, Craig Fairbrass, Dexter Fletcher and Steven Berkoff) and award-winning zombie blockbuster Devil's Playground (starring Dyer, Fairbrass, Sean Pertwee and Jaime Murray). Recently he was Executive Producer on the Danny Dyer thriller 7Lives and the gangster comedy Bulla starring Peter Capaldi and Omid Diljalli and produced the romcom How To Stop Being A Loser starring Richard E Grant. He produced Airborne starring Mark Hamill and Julian Glover and Elfie Hopkins starring Ray and Jaime Winstone, He won 'Best Producer' at the 2010 British Horror Film Awards.Away from films, Jonathan was Executive Producer on Danny Dyer's Football Foul Ups, the biggest selling sports DVD of 2009, and still writes for magazines such as Esquire.

  • Birthday

    Apr 26, 1980
  • Place of Birth

    Redhill, Surrey, England, UK