Mike Goodridge is an international producer and executive producer whose London- based company Good Chaos was established in 2017. Since then he has produced nine features, with one in post and one in pre-production.
He was a co-producer on Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated Triangle Of Sadness and an executive producer on Jasmila Zbanic’s Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated Quo Vadis, Aida?
He is a lead producer on Jessica Hausner’s film Club Zero starring Mia Wasikowska which was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year and is in post-production on Baltasar Kormakur’s Touch for Focus Features and Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker’s Left-Handed Girl.
Mike also EP’d Jalmari Helander’s Finnish action film Sisu which had its world premiere at Toronto in September 2022, and opened on 1,006 screens in the US on April 28 through Lionsgate.
He is also developing a busy series slate with writing talent including Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Oliver Lansley and Tony Marchant, and has projects with world class film-makers such as Todd Haynes, Edward Berger, Wang Xiaoshuai, Laszlo Nemes and Kornel Mundruczo.
Goodridge was previously CEO of UK-based production, finance and sales company Protagonist Pictures and put together the finance and distribution of hit films such as Cold War, The Lobster, Love & Friendship, The Florida Project, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, ’71, Calvary, The Rider, Lady Macbeth, God’s Own Country and Maggie’s Plan.
Among the films he has executive produced are Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, The Discovery starring Rooney Mara and Robert Redford, My Old Lady with Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline and Oren Moverman’s The Dinner starring Richard Gere and Steve Coogan.
He oversaw over 70 films at the company and Protagonist films received multiple Oscar and BAFTA nominations, and Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festival prizes.
