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FEATURE FILM

Artemis Films
A production company based at Pinewood Studios with an impressive slate of films featuring name cast. They have forged international co-producing partnerships with Chartoff Productions (The Rocky Franchise)  Future Film Group (The Queen, Bend It Like Beckham) and Equinoxe a Montreal based distribution company (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Pirates Of The Caribbean) > Contact us

Mahabharata
A trilogy of films for a global audience based on the India epic Mahabharata, reworking the strong narrative to hold a Western audience and also remain true to the original. The stories will transport the audience to a world they have never seen before, set in a culture that has not been experienced in the West, all in a spectacular production that will sell the popcorn as well as satisfy the purist. > Contact us

Twenty8k
A Crime thriller set in early 90’s suburbia. When a teenage Asian boy is accused of a fatal gang shooting, his showbiz journalist sister uncovers a corrupt suburban community intent on instant justice > Contact us

Man of A Thousand Cuts
A biopic about a group of Jewish gangsters in London, from childhood, through their glory years during the Off-track gambling prohibition, and onto their downfall at the hands of the established London-Italian crime syndicates, the press and judicial system. The story focuses on Jack Spot, the colourful leader of the gang of friends and self-styled King of the Underworld > Contact us

Finding Fate
A young woman’s life is blown off course by a brother’s deception.  A Father’s mistakes are re-examined, and the truth comes to light on the faraway shores of Ireland.  Directed by Jack Conroy (Oscar winning My Left Foot) and starring Amy Redford and Jamie Harris > Contact us

DOCUMENTARY

I'm with Victor
Tijuana, Mexico's most unsavory city, is where human rights activist and professor of anthropology, Victor Clark Alfaro calls home. For 20 years he has been working to safeguard the rights of the indigenous Mixtecas who are treated like second-class citizens > Contact us

Courting Condi
Can one man with a dream win the heart of one of the world’s most powerful women? This musical docu-comedy – part Borat, part Fahrenheit 9/11, part Chicago  -- follows a love-struck soul’s hilarious, emotionally engaging quest to woo Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice > Contact us



TELEVISION

Hacking Democracy
HBO documentary investigation into the vulnerability to error, manipulation or untraceable vote rigging of America's new generation of electronic voting systems > Contact us



PERFORMING ARTS

The Harder They Come
Following sell out seasons at Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Barbican The Harder They Come is now playing at the West End’s Playhouse Theatre. Based on the iconic seventies film that launched Jimmy Cliff onto the world stage, this exhilarating production tells the story of a country boy who makes for the bright lights of Kingston, Jamaica. With a head full of songs including You Can Get it if You Really Want, Many Rivers To Cross, Higher and Higher, Rivers of Babylon and The Harder They Come he dreams of becoming a reggae star. When the harsh reality of the music scene drives him into a fast and furious life as an outlaw, he would rather die than kill his dream! > Contact us

The Wicker Man

Cult British movie, The Wicker Man, is coming to the stage. Under the artistic direction of Andrew Steggall, one of Britain’s “most promising young directors” (Scotland on Sunday, Guardian, Harpers and Queen, Dazed and Confused) The Motion Group are adapting and staging the production for Spring 2009. They are working with members of the original motion picture’ creative team and cast > Contact us

The Swansong

Stage adaptation of David Greig's radio play The Swansong > Contact us

Balance of Ice
Dance production featuring prima ballerina Viengsay Valdes using the images and sounds of ice calving > Contact us



ALTERNATIVE

Son of Man
Spier Films is looking at an alternative distribution model for Son of Man, a film that targets world cinema fans, religious groups as well as African communities and the non-white Christian population who can relate to a black Christ > Contact us

Windfall Digital
A company specialising in media convergence that has previously worked with the British Museum, the NHS and Channel 4 > Contact us

Stirus Global Solutions
A new self-administered Sexually Transmitted Infection kit for UK retail, GUM clinics and charities worldwide > Contact us

V-goo
The V-goo project combines the next technology evolution in the video-on-demand space, with a business model that also distinguishes it from current offerings by delivering significant revenues in the short term > Contact us



SCRIPTS

Girl Plus One
A romantic comedy feature script - written by David Goldstein, who co-wrote the screenplay AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS starring Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger > Contact us

Tuesday's Child
A tale of our times through the eyes of a British born Muslim who knowingly makes a decision that puts him in conflict with his family, friends and past employers > Contact us