Editing Leslie Howard (section)

===''Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn''===
''Leslie Howard: A Quite Remarkable Life'', as it was initially known, is a film documentary biography produced by Thomas Hamilton of Repo Films. It was shown privately at the NFB Mediatheque, [[Toronto]], Canada in September 2009 for contributors and supporters of the film. Subsequently, re-edited and retitled ''[[Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn]]'', the documentary was officially launched on 2 September 2011 in an event held at Howard's former home "Stowe Maries" in [[Dorking]], and reported on [[BBC South]] News the same day.<ref>{{YouTube|9HRiDKqq1xw|"Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave A Damn-Premier"}}, 7 September 2011.</ref> Lengthy rights negotiations with [[Warners]] then delayed further screenings until May 2012.

From 2012 to early 2014 the film remained in limbo due to these issues. However, in early 2014, independent producer [[Monty Montgomery (producer)|Monty Montgomery]] and Hamilton entered a co-production agreement to complete and release the documentary. This involved a complete re-edit of the documentary, from June 2014 to February 2015, with added material including archival interviews ([[Michael Powell]], [[John Houseman]], [[Ronald Howard (British actor)|Ronald Howard]] and [[Irene Howard]] - all originally filmed in 1980 for the BBC's [[British Greats]] series), much historical footage and an additional interview. In addition a score was commissioned from composer [[Maria Antal]] and considerable post-production sweetening was undertaken on the original material.

This new version, of '' Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn'' was screened as a "work in progress" at the [[San Francisco Mostly British Film Festival]] on 14 February 2015, with Hamilton, Tracy Jenkins and [[Derek Partridge]] in attendance. The film won the award for Best Documentary Film.

Subsequent screenings (with minor changes to the commentary) took place at the [[Chichester International Film Festival]] on 18 August 2015 at the [[Regent Street Cinema]], London in December 2015 and at the [[Margaret Mitchell Museum]] in Atlanta in May 2016 as part of the [[Britweek Atlanta]] launch.

''Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn'' had its world premiere broadcast on [[Talking Pictures TV]] on 27 December 2017, followed by the US TV premiere on [[Turner Classic Movies]] on 4 June 2018, which opened a month-long tribute to Howard's films.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2140483/leslie-howard-the-man-who-gave-a-damn |title=Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies|TCM]] |access-date=2018-06-05 }}</ref> It airs regularly on Talking Pictures TV and occasionally on Turner Classic Movies.