Neil Chordia
Neil Chordia is a producer at Eclipse Films.
Before co-founding the company, Chordia was an Associate Producer at Marion Pilowsky and Colin Leventhal’s Priority Pictures. At Priority, Chordia was responsible for reviewing and creating all production materials for Priority’s slate including budget, schedules and financing and recoupment plans. He was also heavily involved in developing the slate and for reading and evaluating incoming script submissions.
Amongst the titles Chordia helped produce were Kenneth Branagh’s Sleuth starring Michael Caine and Jude Law, Nina’s Heavenly Delights starring Shelley Conn and Art Malik and The All Together starring Martin Freeman and Danny Dyer.
Prior to this, Chordia was Co-Production manager for Myriad Pictures where he worked on all Myriad’s co-productions including Marc Evans’ Trauma, The River King starring Ed Burns and Jennifer Ehle, Piccadilly Jim starring Sam Rockwell and Tom Wilkinson and Istvan Szabo’s Being Julia, starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons. During this time Chordia was responsible for all DCMS submissions and in ensuring co-productions met their minimum spend criteria.
Chordia has also worked for United International Pictures, (the former distribution joint venture between Universal, Paramount and MGM) in the marketing and promotions department. Here he was involved in all the company’s UK marketing campaigns including films such as Gladiator, M:I-2, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The World is Not Enough, Billy Elliot and American Beauty.
In 2006, Chordia directed the short film Stingray, starring Mathew Horne, Lucy Punch, Dominic West and Andy Serkis. The film was shown at film festivals around the world including The Chicago International Film Festival and was chosen for looped exhibition at the UK pavilion at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The film has been sold worldwide by Shorts International and is available for download from iTunes.