Portobello Pictures is best known for producing the Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning film KOLYA (Best Foreign Language Film, 1997).

Portobello's collaboration with Czech director Jan Sverak continued with the epic World War II film DARK BLUE WORLD released in 2001 starring Tara Fitzgerald and Charles Dance, and with Zdenek Sverkak's EMPTIES (VRATNE LAHVE) which completed photography in June 2006 (http://www.sverak.com/).

Portobello's first Czech film was Jiri Menzel's THE LIFE AND EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF PRIVATE IVAN CHONKIN (1994). Menzel won best foreign language Oscar in 1967 for his film CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS.

Portobello's first theatrical film was the acclaimed British family film, Roald Dahl's DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD (1989) starring Jeremy Irons, his son Samuel, Robbie Coltrane and a host of British stars. At the time it was hailed as the 'first British family film in over twenty years'.

Portobello's other theatrical credits include: Tim Roth's directorial debut THE WAR ZONE (1999) starring Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton; Jez Butterworth's MOJO (1997) with Harold Pinter and Ricky Tomlinson; and BIRTHDAY GIRL (2001) with Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin.

Currently Portobello Pictures is developing & producing a slate of film and television projects, working with high profile international talent, as well as developing and establishing new talent.