The Media Lunch Club Podcast #15 - Matthew Field & Sally Hibbin

Sally Hibbin is a British independent film producer, known for her work on low budget films with directors like Ken Loach and Phil Davis as well as producers like Sarah Curtis and Rebecca O'Brien in both film and television.

The daughter of Nina Hibbin; film critic for the communist Daily Worker (later the Morning Star), her career also began as a journalist until she founded her independent production company, Parallax Pictures in 1981 where she had a lengthy cooperation with Ken Loach, which marked “a pivotal period in the director's career”, with films like Riff-Raff (1991), Raining Stones (1993), Ladybird, Ladybird (1994), Land and Freedom (1995) and Carla's Song (1996).

She also worked with television directors such as Les Blair on feature films like Bad Behaviour (1993) and Stand and Deliver (1997), as well as actor Phil Davis on his directorial debut motion picture, I.D. (1995) and then, Hold Back the Night (1998).

With Skreba Films, she produced A Very British Coup (miniseries) (1988) for Channel 4 which was a three-part dramatization of the novel by MP, Chris Mullin, depicting United Kingdom under a genuinely socialist Labour government. The series won four BAFTA Awards in 1989 - for Best Actor (Ray McAnally), Best Drama Series (Sally Hibbin, Alan Plater, Anne Skinner and Mick Jackson), Best Film Editor (Don Fairservice) and Best Film Sound (Christian Wangler, David Old and Peter Elliott ) – and a 1988 International Emmy Award for Best Drama.

Riff-Raff (1991), won the Critics' Award at Cannes Film Festival as well as the inaugural Felix for Best European Film, and I Know You Know, won the BAFTA Cymru award in 2009.

As Producer
1982: Live a Life (Documentary)
1983: The Road to Gdansk (TV Movie documentary)
1985: Policing London (Documentary short)
1988: A Very British Coup (miniseries) (TV Mini-Series)
1991: Riff-Raff
1993: Raining Stones
1994: Ladybird, Ladybird (film)
1995: I.D. ( film)
1996: Carla's Song
1998: Pat Condell: Stand and Deliver (TV Special documentary)
1999: Dockers (film) (TV Movie)
1999: Hold Back the Night
2003: Blind Flight
2004: Yasmin (2004 film)
2006: Almost Adult
2008: I Know You Know
2016: ID2: Shadwell Army

As Executive Producer
1993: Bad Behaviour (1993 film)
1995: Land and Freedom
1995: The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1998: The Governess
1998: Shark Hunt
2000: Liam (film)
2002: The Intended
2011: Biatch! (Short)