Mike Goodridge

He is an international producer and executive pro- ducer whose London-based company Good Chaos was established in 2017. Since then he has produced nine features, with one in post and one in pre-pro- duction. He was a co-producer on Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated ‘Triangle Of Sadness’ and an executive producer on Jasmila Žbanić’s Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’.He is a lead producer on Jessica Hausner’s film ‘Club Zero‘, which was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year and is in post-pro- duction on Baltasar Kormakur’s ‘Touch’ for Focus Features and Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker’s ‘Left-Handed Girl’.

Goodridge was previously CEO of UK-based produc- tion, finance and sales company Protagonist Pictu- res and put together the finance and distribution of hit films such as ‘Cold War’, ‘The Lobster’, ‘Love & Friendship’, ‘The Florida Project’, ‘Hunt For The Wilderpeople’, ‘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’, ‘The Discovery’ starring Rooney Mara and Robert Redford, ‘My Old Lady’ with Mag- gie Smith and Kevin Kline and Oren Moverman’s ‘The Dinner’ starring Richard Gere and Steve Coogan.

He oversaw over 70 films at the company and Pro- tagonist films received multiple Oscar and BAFTA nominations, and Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festival prizes. He has had a concurrent career as a festival director and programmer. He was artistic di- rector at International Film Festival & Awards Macao in China from 2017 to 2021, and has worked at the Sarajevo, Locarno and Chicago film festivals.

He was a trade journalist, editor and critic for many years and has written three books on film.