Short 4 mins. Multi award winning short film set as a vicious riot rips through the secure wing of a British Prison. When the violence closes in, Joyce, an inmate with a target on his back makes one final call home to impart some wisdom to his young son, and in the process is forced to confront the choices that led him there before his ‘Time’ runs out.
Feature film in development entitled ‘Lockdown’.
‘A Prophet’ meets ‘The Wrestler’ when a prisoner is granted four resettlement release days ahead of his impending freedom. In a bid to re-connect with the fractured family he left behind, he inadvertently involves them in a deadly plot that threatens their lives and everything they have built without him.’
County Lines
County Lines
Director: Henry Blake
Feature premiered at LFF in 2019 with distribution by BFI.
Nominated for 4 BIFA awards and 2 BAFTA’s.
Blistering thriller of a teen groomed to work for a brutal, organised drugs network.
To be shown on the BBC in 2022.
The Show Must Go On
The Show Must Go On
Director: Ben Garfield.
Short 23 mins.
The hilariously lewd and totally unforgettable Fay Presto finds a way to keep the magic alive during the first UK lockdown in this short documentary.
Gus & Son
Gus & Son
Director: Henry Blake
Short 12 mins, premiered at London short film festival.
Gus Ferguson runs a tree felling business with his only son, Travis. Neither of the men are happy in their work or with each other. Over the course of a two-day job Gus must face the devastating truth that the family business is failing and why Travis is so desperate to take control.
Aeolian Piano
Aeolian Piano
Director: Catherine Yass
Short 20 mins. Exhibited at RIBA and Ambica P3 gallery.
The film depicts a grand piano suspended by a crane and circling above the BBC Television Centre during its conversion into residential property. The film is a lament for the departure of the BBC and to this end uses sound in a new and experimental way. The cranes supporting the piano are symptomatic of the cranes probing the sky all around London.
Unexploded
Unexploded
Episodic TV Series in development based on the bestselling novel by Alison Macleod.
Brighton, May 1940. A time of tension and change. Geoffrey Beaumont becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the racecourse on the downs above the town, his son Philip is gripped by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton his English HQ, and his wife Evelyn meets Otto Gottlieb, a ‘degenerate’ German-Jewish painter imprisoned in the camp. As love collides with fear, the power of art with the forces of war, the lives of Evelyn, Otto, and Geoffrey are changed irrevocably.
Smash & Grab
Smash & Grab
Director: Neil Linpow
Short: 3 mins
Concept.
Four women race a ticking clock across a bustling city, readying themselves for the ultimate Smash and Grab showdown.
Clout
Clout
Feature film in development, script by Joe Mackenzie and Neil Linpow.
Wallis & Wood
Wallis & Wood
Feature in development.
In 1928 the artists Ben Nicolson and Christoper Wood met the retired fisherman Alfred Wallis in St Ives. His paintings were a revelation to them and his untutored eye symbolised to them naive expressionism.
An unlikely friendship and artistic partnership developed between Wood and Wallis which would have a profound influence on C20 British art.
