EVIDENTLY...JOHN COOPER CLARKE [DOCUMENTARY]

DIR: John Ross
BBC 4

Documentary for BBC 4 exploring the life and works of 'punk poet' John Cooper Clarke, looking at his life as a poet, a comedian, a recording artist and revealing how he has remained a significant influence on contemporary culture over four decades.


BBC NATIONAL TREASURES LIVE

HISTORY MAN & THE HAIRDRESSER

DIR: Andy Abrahams
Full Blown Media
BBC ONE

Part of BBC ONE's history show National Treasures Live.  A number of 5 minute films shot from the south coast of England to Perthshire in Scotland.  In a series of dodgy campervans, Dan Snow aims to fire up Michael Douglas's appreciation of British history!!!


ARCTIC MONKEYS LIVE AT THE APOLLO - Winner BEST DVD AWARD

DIR: Richard Ayoade
Warp Films, Domino Records,
Bang Bang
2009 NME Awards
Winner: Best DVD Award

Arctic Monkeys at The Apollo is a cinematic feast with impressive, intuitive, confidently held master shots - a film that invites the audience to immerse themselves in the style and force of the UK's most striking band as they deliver one of their most intense performances to date.


NOTHING TO SAY (SHORT FILM)

DIR: Owen Davies
Broadway

Owen Davies' latest film follows a young girl as she struggles to deal with her mother's alcoholism, look after her younger sister and hide the truth about their situation from an absent father.

Commissioned by Nottingham based charity 'What About Me' the film is an incredible testament to the charity and the people it aims to support.


STEW AND PUNCH (SHORT FILM)

DIR: Simon Ellis
Mad Cow Films

The trappings of masculine pride in three real-time acts, as a dinner party with beef stew and much punch spirals out of control when the host couple are sucked into a bout of light-hearted arm wrestling. 

 


NATIVITY 2: DANGER IN THE MANGER

DIR: Debbie Isitt
Mirrorball Films

Mr Peterson is an anxious supply teacher who takes a job at an underachieving primary school, St Bernadette's. He struggles to care for both his uninspired pupils, and his heavily pregnant wife. He lives in the shadow of his overachieving identical twin brother, who is a teacher at a posh private school, St. Cuthbert's College. The brothers' rivalry intensifies when they both enter their classes into the national 'Sing a Song for Christmas' competition.


TYRANNOSAUR - Winner SUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011

DIR: Paddy Considine
Inflammable Films

Sundance International Film Festival:
The World Cinema Award for Directing
World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances:
Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman

Tyrannosaur is the story of Joseph (Peter Mullan), a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah (Olivia Colman), a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating consequences for both of them.


DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE [FEATURE DRAMA]

DIR: Tim Cunningham

A blackly comic recession-hit crime thriller. Bob Bass, a hit-man with a bad back, gives his latest victim the chance to live a little longer -by digging his own grave deep in the woods. However, a simple job turns into a bloody nightmare.


THIS IS ENGLAND '88 [TV DRAMA]

DIR: Shane Meadows
Warp Films & Channel 4

Haunted by the devastating events that took place eighteen months before, Lol and Woody find themselves struggling to cope with the emotional fallout... They're not the only ones who are lacking in festive spirit, as Shaun has to learn the hard way that love hurts.


HEILIG [DOCUMENTARY]

DIR: Steve Hatton
Electric Egg

A meditative story of a parent child relationship. Heilig offers an intimate portrait of Jewish Kindertransport refugee Gerhard Heilig, now 85 and living in retirement in Vienna.

 


NOCTURN - [DRAMA]

poster image for nocturn

DIR: Leanne Welham

Jody has insomnia. Almost every night she leaves her sleeping husband and child and fills the lonely twilight hours walking the empty streets of suburbia. But tonight is different; at the local 24-hour garage a passionate young couple have caught Jody’s eye. When they ask her to join them for a spliff, Jody finds herself caught on a nocturnal road trip tinged with danger and sexual tension that will force her to face some uncomfortable home truths.


THIS IS ENGLAND '86 - Winner BEST TV DRAMA

DIR: Shane Meadows & Tom Harper
Warp Films & Channel 4

2011 South Bank Sky Arts Awards
Winner: Best TV Drama

2010 Royal Television Society Awards
Winner: Best Writer (Drama) - Jack Thorne and Shane Meadows
Winner: Best Actor (Female) - Vicky McClure

As Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) sits his last school exam, the realisation dawns that adulthood beckons and in mid-80s England he's going to have to find his own way in the world. Luckily life has dealt a surprise hand to his friends too and no one is quite where they thought they would be. Woody, Lol, Smell, Gadget, Milky - they are all looking for love, a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.

Trailer: @YouTube


TV LICENCING [COMMERCIAL]

Dir: Olly Blackburn
Red Bee Films / BBC

The "Busy" TV trailer focuses on raising awareness of TV Licensing's website as a quick and convenient way for people to renew their licence.


HIDDEN PAINTINGS - [DOCUMENTARY]

Dir: Andrew Abrahams, Full Blown Media
BBC

In an attempt to discover whether art can really sustain and inform our knowledge of the past Dan Snow retraces the career of Nottingham-born artist Arthur Spooner whose paintings faithfully record events and people as he saw them. The paintings lead him to a fascinating discovery about the wartime history of Welbeck Abbey in north Notts.


VOLVO - TELEMATIC ASSETS

Client: Pure Equator Agency

The Volvo Group is one of the leading suppliers of commercial transport solutions providing trucks, buses, construction equipment, engines and drive systems ...


PAPA - [DRAMA]

DIR: Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque UKFC
EM Media

Sophia goes to work with her stern emotionally distant father. Tony, a bitter factory worker comes between them and challenges their loyalty for one another.


VIMTO - MIXING & DOLBY PRINTMASTER

DIR: Paul Alexander
Strudel Films

 Final Mixing and Dolby Printmaster for Middle Eastern campaign...


BIATCH - [DRAMA]

DIR: Deborah Haywood
EM Media, UKFC

Beth and Chantel are best friends until Aroon comes on the scene...


APARTMENT 11 - [DRAMA]

DIR: Mark Player
Anglo Klaxon Films

Frustrated over his in inability to create, a struggling writer suffers alone, in a personal nightmare, waiting for inspiration. One day that inspiration comes, but in the form of disturbing sounds emanating from the flat of the mysterious neighbour.


ONE NIGHT IN TURIN - DOLBY MASTERING

DIR: James Erskine
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment

Before the Premier League and multi-million pound salaries, in England "football" was a dirty word. The game was in disgrace, the fans, hooligans, the nation, it seemed, were all played out. Then there was Italia '90 - The World Cup - a shot at redemption.


INTO THE WIND - [FEATURE DOCUMENTARY]

DIR: Steve Hatton
Electric Egg

Into the Wind is Steven Hatton's first feature length documentary, capturing the life and wartime experiences of former Bomber Command veterans from the Second World War. As well as a document of unique historical value and significance, Into the Wind is a record of deeply personal stories, tales of friendships gained and lost, the perpetual possibility and proximity of death, the importance of love and family, the shared passion for flying and the moral implications of warfare.


PARIS SEXY - Winner BEST SHORT FILM

DIR: Ruth Paxton
DIGICULT & SCOTTISH SCREEN

2011 London Short Film Festival
Winner: Best Film

Greer's weird. Everyone in the Village thinks so...Paris/Sexy is both charming and disturbing. A compelling tragedy where virtue is not rewarded and dreams don't come true.

Trailer: @Vimeo

External Links: @IMDB


MOTO GP 09/10 [Intro Movie]

Monumental Games Capcom
XBOX 360, PLAYSTATION 3, XBOX LIVE

MotoGP 09/10 delivers the most comprehensive GP gaming experience to date. Take to the track and express your style as you build up your reputation and progress from the 125cc class to the MotoGP.


SIS - Winner BEST SHORT FILM

DIR: Deborah Haywood
ANTHEM FILMS
EM MEDIA
UKFC

2010 London United Film festival:
Winner: Best Short Film

When five year old Lauren and friend Amy hear there is a paedophile living in the area, who "likes children," they decide to track him down.


CRYING WITH LAUGHTER - BAFTA Winner BEST FEATURE FILM

DIR: Justin Molotnikov
WELLINGTON FILMS and SYNCHRONICITY FILM

BAFTA Winner: Best Feature Film [Scotland]

2009 Edinburgh Film Festival
Winner: Top Five Audience Award
Nomination: Michael Powell Award

World Soundtrack Academy 2009
Nomination: Discovery of the Year Award

Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel.


BEYOND THE POLE - Winner BEST FEATURE PRODUCTION

DIR: David L Williams
SHOOTING PICTURES, POLITE STORM

Warsaw International Film Festival
Nomination: Spirit Award

Fort Lauderdale Film Festival
Special Jury Award: Best Feature Production

Starring Stephen Mangan (Green Wing), Rhys Thomas (The Fast Show), Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood), Helen Baxendale (Friends).

Beyond the Pole is the story of the first Carbon Neutral, Vegetarian, Organic expedition to the North Pole. An extraordinarily dangerous expedition made extraordinarily more dangerous by the fact that the explorers attempting this feat are amateurs who have never done anything like this before.


WAVING AT TRAINS - [DRAMA]

DIR: Sean Crotty
MADE UP NORTH PRODUCTIONS

Storm clouds drift past an attic window as Douglas plays with his model railway. Locked away from his wife, he loses himself in memories - memories of another storm, a real railway and the tragedy of his mother's death.


THE MIGHTY BOOSH LIVE - Winner BEST DVD AWARD

DIR: Paul King
WARP FILMS, UNIVERSAL PICTURES.

2009 Shockwaves NME Awards
Winner: Best DVD Award

Documenting the comedy troupe's 2008/2009 "Future Sailors" tour.

 

 


WINTERING - [DRAMA]

DIR: Iain Finlay
PERFUME FILMS
EM MEDIA
UKFC

A woman witnesses a man setting fire to clothes on top of a bridge. She follows and watches him as he engages in more acts of destruction. The man's actions become increasingly extreme and bizarre until the woman intervenes.


HUSH - [DRAMA]

DIR: Mark Tonderai
WARP X

2008 British Independent Film Awards
Nomination: Best Achievement in Production

A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver following a near accident.


TANDEM - [DRAMA]

DIR: John & Tom Turrell
PERFUME FILMS
EM MEDIA
UKFC

Paul is jobless, alone and about to turn 30. He's also selling up the family council house. Joan, his older sister, pays him an annual birthday visit, neither of them knowing that this year will be different from the rest. With the unexpected rediscovery of their childhood tandem bike, the siblings set off on a day's cycling trip that tests their bond and threatens to resurrect the past.


SOMERS TOWN - Winner BEST NEW BRITISH FEATURE FILM

DIR: Shane Meadows
TOMBOY FILMS & MOTHER VISION

2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival
Winner: Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film

2008 British Independent Film Awards
Nomination: Best Screenplay
Nomination: Best Director
Nomination: Best Actor

A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.


DONKEY PUNCH - [DRAMA]

DIR: Oliver Blackburn
WARP X

After meeting at a nightclub in a Mediterranean resort, seven young adults decide to continue partying aboard a luxury yacht in the middle of the ocean. But when one of them dies in a freak accident, the others argue about what to do, which leads to a ruthless fight for survival.


A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES - FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

DIR: Chris Waitt
WARP X

2008 British Independent Film Awards
Nomination: Best British Documentary

2008 Sundance International Film Festival
Nomination: Grand Jury Prize

Gijon International Film Festival 2008
Nomination: Grand Prix Asturias

A humorous look at life for a loser in love. Independent filmmaker Chris Waitt attempts to interview his ex-girlfriends to find out why they dumped him. This revealing and humorous documentary sees the slacker filmmaker go on a sexual and emotional odyssey in a desperate quest to solve his innumerable problems.


DOG ALTOGETHER - BAFTA Winner BEST SHORT FILM

DIR: Paddy Considine
WARP FILMS
SIGMA FILMS

2008 BAFTA Film Awards
Winner: Best Short Film

2008 Venice Film Festival
Silver Lion Award: Best Short Film

2007 British Independent Film Awards
Winner: Best Short Film

Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.


REBECCA - [DRAMA]

DIR: Nick Whitfield
EM MEDIA & UKFC

On a dilapidated boat Eddie waits. He's sure she'll come. But, with another storm brewing on the horizon, will it be soon enough...?


CHERRIES - Winner YOUTH JURY PRIZE

DIR: Tom Harper
FREE RANGE FILMS

2008 Aspen Shortsfest
Winner: Youth Jury Prize

2007 British Independent Film Awards
Nomination: Best Short Film

A class of teenage schoolboys are oblivious to their teacher's attempts to question them about the wider world. They are about to get a lesson they will never forget... one that will change their lives forever.


THIS IS ENGLAND - BAFTA Winner BEST BRITISH FILM

DIR: Shane Meadows
WARP FILMS & BIG ARTY PRODUCTIONS

2008 BAFTA Film Awards
Winner: Best British Film

2007 Conch Awards
Nomination: Film Soundtrack of the Year [SPOOL]

2006 British Independent Film Awards
Winner: Best British Independent Film

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.


MAGICIANS - Winner BEST COMEDY

DIR: Andrew O' Connor
INTERMEDIA FILMS
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
BREAKOUT FILMS

Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
Winner: Jury Award for Best Comedy

A pair of rivalling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.


BALLAD OF AJ WEBERMAN - Winner RAINDANCE AWARD

DIR: James Bluemell and Oliver Ralfe
SCREEN SOUTH
UKFC

2006 British Independent Film Awards
Winner: Raindance Award

Documentary chronicles the life and crimes of notorious Bob Dylan obsessive and Garbology inventor A.J Weberman.


CUBS - Winner BEST BRITISH SHORT

DIR: Tom Harper
FREE RANGE FILMS

2007 BAFTA Film Awards
Nomination: Best Short Film

2007 European Film Academy Awards
Short Film: Prix UIP

2006 British Independent Film Awards
Winner: Best British Short

A gang of inner city youths have discovered a dark new sport... urban fox hunting.


ARCTIC MONKEYS - SCUMMY MAN

DIR: Paul Fraser
WARP FILMS

2006 Berlin International Film Festival
Nomination: Golden Berlin Bear

Nina (Lauren Socha) is easy to find. She is on the industrial estate, near the gas tower, She is fifteen, addicted to drugs and on the game. George (Stephen Graham) is one of her nastier punters. His arrival turns the temperature up on her already combusting life. He is the scummiest of scummy men, someone you really don't want to be involved with, at all.


DEAD MANS SHOES - BAFTA Nominated BEST BRITISH FILM

DIR: Shane Meadows
WARP FILMS
BIG ARTY PRODUCTIONS

2004 BAFTA Film Awards
Nomination: Best British Film

2004 Dinard British Film Festival
Winner: Golden Hitchcock

2005 Directors Guild of Great Britain
Winner: Outstanding Directorial Achievement

A disaffected soldier (Considine) returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother (Kebbell) years ago.