Mike Goodridge has had a wide-ranging 30-year career in the film business, covering finance and sales, festival programming and management, media, and most recently production. In addition to running companies and teams, he has a strong curatorial background and myriad relationships with film-makers around the world.

From 2012 to 2017, he was chief executive officer at UK-based production, sales and finance company Protagonist Pictures and under his aegis, it delivered such hit films as Love & Friendship, Cold War, The Florida Project, The Lobster, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, ’71, Calvary, The Rider, Lady Macbeth, God’s Own Country and Maggie’s Plan.

Among the films he has executive produced are Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, which won the jury prize at Cannes 2016, The Discovery starring Rooney Mara and Robert Redford, My Old Lady with Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline and Oren Moverman’s The Dinner.

Since leaving Protagonist, he has assembled a slate of films and series in development under his Groovy Pictures banner and is also artistic director of International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) which had its second edition under his leadership in Dec 2018. He is also an advisor to the Piazza Grande section of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.

Prior to Protagonist, he spent 22 years as a film business journalist and critic, working in senior editorial positions at Screen International for 19 years including 12 years as US editor in Los Angeles and three years as editor in London.

He also worked as a programmer for the Kinoscope section of the Sarajevo Film Festival from 2011 to 2017. He has written several books on cinema including two on film directors.

He is a board member of the European Film Academy and is a member of BAFTA.