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Matthew Freud (born 2 November 1963) is head of Freud Communications, an international public relations firm in the United Kingdom.
- From The Beginning
- Meeting Mackesy
- Teaming Up
- Into Production
- Deals, at Last
- Looking Ahead
Freud leans back in his chair as he starts to tell the story of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse’s journey to the screen. He’s an engaging talker; the story he tells seems to be set largely within a world of famous friends and big houses. Even before he begins, one feels slightly swept up in Freud’s world. Walking into the reception of his ...
Film production is a new departure for Freud, who first met Mackesy in “1989 or 1990”, when the “young, very scruffy artist” came to lunch at his then house in West Sussex. The pair became friends, with the artist staying over in Freud’s poolhouse. “He’s just very kind, sweet and funny. He literally became part of the furniture.” Freud says the two...
By this time, Freud had become a business partner with Mackesy. “I was just trying to help a mate when all the film conversation started,” he says. “I was suddenly spending quite a lot of my time negotiating translation rights for the book and kept trying to palm him off on agents. And he just didn’t like them, or show up to the meetings, or didn’t...
The project started to move towards production, with Mackesy working out of a barn owned by Freud in Suffolk and animators being hired. By this point, Freud had spoken with BBC chief content officer Charlotte Moore, thinking of the BBC as “the right UK partner”. He thought Warner Media/HBO might be a good international partner and teamed with Bad R...
Still there was no deal in place. “We just got further and further down the line,” recalls Freud. “It ended up being a negative pick-up.” The BBC acquired the film, and set a TX date for Christmas Eve, 2022. But, by that September, there was no international deal agreed. A “punchy” offer had been made by WarnerMedia, but this was 10 days before Dav...
Reflecting on the process of producing and financing the film, Freud says it was so consuming “because I didn’t know how to do it”. He credits Speller for “running the animation process completely brilliantly” and Minghella for her creative input. Looking ahead, he says he has “zero interest in a film or TV production for its own sake”. But he is i...
Sep 19, 2016 · Matthew Freud, the founder and chairman of Freud Communications, born in London in 1963, reflects on the 60s in the city as the start of a new classless generation. He notes, in an interview for London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City , “One establishment has run the UK since 1066.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is a 2022 animated short film directed by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy and written by Jon Croker and Mackesy. It is based on Mackesy's 2019 picture book of the same name.
Freud was born in London on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud (1924–2009) and June Flewett, known as the actress Jill Freud. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Her younger brother is Matthew Freud, and her uncle was the painter Lucian Freud.
Matthew Freud is known for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022), Independent Lens (1999) and Muscle Shoals (2013). He has been married to Elisabeth Murdoch since August 18, 2001. They have two children.
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Mar 2, 2015 · After 30 years in the public relations business, Matthew Freud knows a thing or two about image. He has positioned himself next to a rare, Nazi-era Enigma machine that was used for sending...
