He previously created and directed with Damien Jones the production company Dragon Pictures, for which he produced Welcome to Sarajevo (1996) by Michael Winterbottom, shown in the Festival de Cannes 1997, and cited by Time Magazine as one of the ten best films of the year, as well as Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) by Michael Radford, Some Voices by Simon Cellan Jones, Very Annie Mary (2001) by Sara Sugarman, Splendor (1999) by Gregg Araki, A Texas Funeral by william Blake Herron and The Debt Collector.