Patrick Carr

Mandarin Film/247 Pictures

Producer/Director

Patrick graduated from Oxford University with a first class honours degree in Chinese and spent several years at Bain & Company, a strategy consultancy, consulting across industries including telecoms, petroleum, consumer goods and private equity.

Patrick founded award-winning production company Mandarin Film in 2006, producing some of the most ambitious projects to be filmed in China.

In 2021 Patrick co-founded 247 Pictures which focusses specifically on creating original and ambitious new Asian content for the ‘Big 5’ streamers (Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Disney +).

Patrick regularly attends and guest speaks at international and domestic conferences, markets and trade fairs, and brings creativity and energy to a variety of television and cinema-release projects that have won awards at Sundance, Berlin and Venice (and Guangzhou, Beijing and Bangkok) Film Festivals.

Patrick splits his time between Beijing and Bangkok with his family and assorted pets.