Leslie Hills

Leslie Hills is a producer with Skyline Productions in Edinburgh, Scotland, producing a wide range of programmes and films. 

For nearly thirty years she has worked, in co-production with Germany, with the director, Thomas Riedelsheimer,  on all of his international films.

Leslie Hills is a creative producer working closely with writers and directors.  Her company. Skyline Productions, which she joined after twenty years in education, is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her film and television work has ranged across drama, politics, current affairs and arts programmes. She now concentrates on the production, with her German partners, of award-winning cinema documentaries which are financed and filmed across five continents and distributed internationally. She has given seminars across Europe and beyond, from Toronto to St Petersburg, and consulted on and edited scripts for a wide range of film commissions, festivals and international training programmes.

She has reviewed theatre and contemporary classical music; written copy for theatre programmes and the Edinburgh International Festival brochure and diaries and reviews – Christo wrapping the Reichstag, Robert Lepage in Dresden and Hamburg – during years spent living in Berlin in the 1990s. She has published short stories, articles and chapters, mostly on education and the arts. 10 Scotland Street is her first book. 

She is a member of BAFTA and the German Film Academy, has contributed to many boards, is a founder member of the feminist campaigning and research organisation Engender, and of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society and is a past chair of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.  She lives in Edinburgh and an attic bolthole on Bute and has two daughters, a son and three grandchildren.