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Sands Films is a small British film production company, founded by producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard in the early 1970s, and based in Rotherhithe, London. The company is known for its production of costumes for period dramas. Recent films includes Bright Star, The Young Victoria, Anonymous, Bel Ami and Les Miserables.
As an independent film production studio Sands Films has its own soundproof stage, workshops, costume department, set construction workshop, cutting room, cinema and otherl services needed to make films. It is a self-sufficient and fully integrated production facility. Cinema and television companies as varied as Working Title, Talkback, BBC, C4, Freemantle, Ridley Scott Associates, Sky TV, the Royal Opera House, the New York Metropolitan Opera and Canal+ have used the facilities at Sands for their projects. The studio has also been successful in delivering full production packages to companies in need of a London studio base, from A Passage to India" to Bright Star. Sands films supplied facilities to Working Title's productions of "Anna Karenina" and the forthcoming Les Misérables.
Notable productions for which the company has produced costumes include all the Agatha Christie films produced by EMI, Vanity Fair, The Phantom of the Opera, Fingersmith, and Pride & Prejudice.
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