Nira Park
Producer
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Nira Park founded award-winning UK film and television production company Big Talk in 1995. She is best known for her collaborations with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, having produced both series of the award-winning TV comedy ‘Spaced’ and their celebrated ‘Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’.
Following the success of ‘Spaced’, Nira produced cult-comedy ‘Shaun of the Dead’, for which she received a Carl Foreman Award nomination at BAFTA. The film was the first instalment of Wright’s iconic ‘Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. ‘Shaun’ was followed by 2007 hit ‘Hot Fuzz’ and 2013's ‘The World’s End’.
Nira produced Wright’s ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’ in 2010; in 2011 Joe Cornish’s SXSW audience-award winning debut feature ‘Attack the Block’, and that same year Greg Mottola’s ‘Paul’, written by Pegg and Frost. In 2012, she produced Ben Wheatley’s Cannes-premiered black-comedy ‘Sightseers’; in 2013 Jeremy Lovering’s critically-acclaimed psychological horror ‘In Fear’, which premiered at Sundance; and in 2014 ‘Cuban Fury’, starring Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd and Rashida Jones.
Most recently Nira produced rom-com ‘Man Up’, starring Simon Pegg, Lake Bell and directed by Ben Palmer. The movie premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won ‘Best Comedy’ at the 2016 National Film Awards. She also produced Sacha Baron Cohen’s action-comedy ‘Grimsby’, which was released February 2016. She is currently producing Edgar Wright’s latest movie ‘Baby Driver’, which is currently in post-production and is scheduled for a spring 2017 release.
For television, she has produced three series of the double BAFTA award-winning sitcom ‘Black Books’, ‘Free Agents’, and was an executive producer on ‘Friday Night Dinner’ and the BAFTA award-winning ‘Him and Her’.
Throughout 2016 and beyond Nira is developing a slate of projects with Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright attached to write and/or direct, as well as film and television projects with emerging and established UK talent.
Film
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO 2021 | Complete Fiction / Film4 / Focus Features / Working Title Films | Producer |
REBECCA 2020 | Working Title Films / Netflix | Producer |
THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING 2019 | Big Talk Productions / Twentieth Century Fox / Working Title Films | Producer |
BABY DRIVER 2017 | Big Talk, Working Title Films, TriStar Pictures, MRC | Producer |
GRIMSBY 2016 | Sony Pictures / Four by Two / Big Talk Pictures / Working Title Films | Producer |
MAN UP 2015 | Big Talk / StudioCanal / BBC Films | Producer *Winner, Best Comedy, National Film Awards 2016 |
CUBAN FURY 2014 | Big Talk / StudioCanal / Entertainment One | Producer *Winner, Discovery of the Year, Daniel Pemberton, World Soundtrack Awards 2014 |
IN FEAR 2013 | Big Talk / StudioCanal / Film4 | Producer *Nominated, Best Debut Director – British Independent Film Awards 2013 |
THE WORLD'S END 2013 | Big Talk / Working Title / Focus Features | Producer *Winner, Best British Film – Empire Awards 2014 |
SIGHTSEERS 2012 | Big Talk / Rook Films / StudioCanal / Film4 / BFI Film Fund | Producer *Winner, Best British Film – Empire Film Awards 2013 |
ATTACK THE BLOCK 2011 | Big Talk | Producer *Breakthrough British Film-maker / Joe Cornish – 32nd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards |
PAUL 2011 | Big Talk / Working Title | Producer *Winner, Best Comedy Film – National Movie Awards 2011 |
2010 | Big Talk / Universal | Producer *Winner, Audience Award – Lund International Fantastic Film Festival 2010 |
HOT FUZZ 2006 | Working Title / Big Talk | Producer |
GONE 2005 | WT2 | Producer |
SHAUN OF THE DEAD 2004 | Working Title / Big Talk | Producer |
Other
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
HANGING AROUND 1995 | Big Talk / BFI | Producer. 30 minute drama commissioned by BFI for ‘Spellbound’ exhibition at The Hayward Gallery. |
Radio
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
FRY'S THE LIMIT 1995 | Big Talk / Radio 4 | Producer. 30-minute comedy for Radio 4 |
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
FREE AGENTS 2009 | Big Talk / Channel 4 | Producer |
FREE AGENTS | Dark Toy / Big Talk for NBC Universal | Exec Producer |
Friday Night Dinner | Big Talk / Popper Pictures for Channel 4 | Exec Producer |
Him & Her, Series 1 & 2 | Big Talk for BBC3 | Exec Producer |
BLACK BOOKS 3 2004 | Assembly / Big Talk / Channel 4 | Producer |
GARTH MARENGHI 2003 | Avalon Television Ltd / Channel 4 | Producer |
BLACK BOOKS 2 2002 | Assembly Film & TV / Channel 4 | Producer |
SPACED 2 2001 | LWT / Paramount / Channel 4 | Producer |
BLACK BOOKS 1 2000 | Assembly Film & TV / Channel4 | Producer |
PAUL KAYE SKETCH SHOW 2000 | Big Talk / Channel 4 | 1998-2000 |
WORLD CUP COMEDY 2000 | Big Talk / Fox Australia | Executive Producer |
COLLECTORS 1999 | BBC 2 | Executive Producer |
VENT 1999 | Big Talk / Channel 4 | Executive Producer |
SPACED 1 1999 | LWT / Paramount / Channel 4 | Producer |
FESTIVAL OF FUN 1998 | Paramount / C5 | Series Producer |
YOU ARE HERE 1998 | Big Talk / Channel 4 | Producer |
FESTIVAL OF FUN 1997 | Paramount / C5 | Executive Producer |
LUCAS & WALLIAMS SPOOF SITCOMS 1997 | Channel 4 | Producer |
TRAVELS WITH MY CAMERA 1996 | Big Talk / Channel 4 | Producer. 50-minute documentary for Channel 4 |
ROCK WIVES 1996 | Big Talk / Channel 4 | Executive Producer |