About
Critical Divide offers international consultancy services to individuals, companies and organisations in both the private and public sector, mainly on the topics of film, television, home entertainment, the arts, sport, travel and tourism. The company also specialises in media, marketing, publishing, communications, public relations, film production and event organisation.
Critical Divide is currently in pre-production and development on a number of motion picture and television projects for the international market. These include the feature film documentary Children of the Revolution, to be directed by Julien Temple for F&ME and TV Zero; Hidden Rhythms: The Heartbeat of Brazil for BBC Television; On Parade: Carnival in Rio; Honour Among Thieves: The Great Train Robbery and The Film Quiz.
Critical Divide has completed the update and published Odd Man Out: The Last Straw, the autobiography of Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs, on 17 November 2011. The company is also preparing to republish the Biggs novel Keep On Running, written with Christopher Pickard.
Critical Divide’s editorial team has edited or supplied editorial content to a number of newspapers, magazines, books and television programs. These include the Sunday Mirror, Daily Mirror, Mail On Sunday, Evening Standard, BBC, Sky, Channel Five, CNN, Crime & Investigation Network, The Latin America Daily Post, Folha de Sao Paulo, Redentor, The Wall Street Journal, Pulse DVD & Digital, Moving Pictures, Screen International, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Music Week, Down Beat, Songlines, TravelPlus, Berlitz Guides, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, Insider’s Guides, Insight Guides and Rio Life.
The team has produced publications for and at the Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Sundance, Rotterdam, Montreal and Karlovy Vary film festivals, as well as at the American Film Market.
The PR and events team works and has worked with airlines, hotel groups, tourist boards, travel companies, restaurants, movie and TV companies, film festivals, sport organisations and events, fashion companies, charities, biofuels and individuals.
As well as covering the United Kingdom, Critical Divide specialises and has a wide contact base in Latin America, and has carried out work and projects in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Caribbean, South Africa, the US, as well as Latin America and the UK.
Critical Divide works very closely with the Rio Film Commission, Festival do Rio (Rio Film Festival) and the Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau.
