‘Give Them Wings’ is about a disabled football fan and tackles disability rights.
Michael Cowan’s UK-based sales company Phoenix Worldwide Entertainment has secured worldwide rights to Sean Cronin’s Give Them Wings and will be selling it at next week’s Pre-Cannes Screenings.
The completed film is a biopic of severely disabled football fan, Paul Hodgson, and is based on his memoir Flipper’s Side. Set in 1989, the screenplay was co-written by Cronin and Hodgson.
Cronin is a UK actor with recent credits including Savvas D Michael’s Original Gangster, and Coz Greenop’s House Red. As a filmmaker,...
Michael Cowan’s UK-based sales company Phoenix Worldwide Entertainment has secured worldwide rights to Sean Cronin’s Give Them Wings and will be selling it at next week’s Pre-Cannes Screenings.
The completed film is a biopic of severely disabled football fan, Paul Hodgson, and is based on his memoir Flipper’s Side. Set in 1989, the screenplay was co-written by Cronin and Hodgson.
Cronin is a UK actor with recent credits including Savvas D Michael’s Original Gangster, and Coz Greenop’s House Red. As a filmmaker,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
The projects will pitch to executives on July 2-3.
Online development marketplace Filmarket Hub has announced the projects in development selected for the UK Online Pitchbox, the new virtual pitch event that runs July 2-3, in partnership with Film London.
Teams representing seven British feature films and scripted series will pitch to companies including Bankside Films, BBC Films, Curzon, Entertainment One, Film4, FilmWave, Gaumont, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal International Scripted, Neal Street Productions, Protagonist Pictures, Studiocanal, SunnyMarch Productions and Wild Bunch TV.
Selected feature films in development Amrit, written and directed by Rory D. Bentley Ice, written by Stéphanie Joalland, produced by...
Online development marketplace Filmarket Hub has announced the projects in development selected for the UK Online Pitchbox, the new virtual pitch event that runs July 2-3, in partnership with Film London.
Teams representing seven British feature films and scripted series will pitch to companies including Bankside Films, BBC Films, Curzon, Entertainment One, Film4, FilmWave, Gaumont, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal International Scripted, Neal Street Productions, Protagonist Pictures, Studiocanal, SunnyMarch Productions and Wild Bunch TV.
Selected feature films in development Amrit, written and directed by Rory D. Bentley Ice, written by Stéphanie Joalland, produced by...
- 6/16/2020
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Election Night is a politically inspired home invasion horror from Director Neil Monaghan. It is the latest offering from Shooting Tiger Pictures and Suspicious Character Films. Five friends hold an Election Night party in a politically divided Britain – A far Right party and a Far-Left party battle for control of Parliament whilst the threat of violent protest builds on the streets. Confident in the results the friends hold a gathering in their affluant home and await the results. When riots break out throughout London, there is a knock at the door and a plea for help, with one simple action their lives will be changed forever. Election Night is Produced by Ben Pickering and Co-produced by Frazer Brown. The film stars: Samantha Loxley, Rebecca Ferdinando,...
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- 6/19/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Hamfisted dialogue and sexist attitudes abound in this corny crime caper
Shot in Cornwall and set in the fictional English hamlet of Curiosity, this low-budget thriller sets four interlinked storylines involving a murderer, an asylum escapee, and a botched heist on a collision course. The eye-watering inanity of its pitifully panto-style gangster-movie dialogue (“Some have broken hearts – others have broken heads”) almost outweighs its egregious sexism. Equally incredible, though admittedly more interesting, is the story of its director, Ben Pickering, a former Tory candidate convicted in 2014 for his involvement in a £5m mortgage scam.
Shot in Cornwall and set in the fictional English hamlet of Curiosity, this low-budget thriller sets four interlinked storylines involving a murderer, an asylum escapee, and a botched heist on a collision course. The eye-watering inanity of its pitifully panto-style gangster-movie dialogue (“Some have broken hearts – others have broken heads”) almost outweighs its egregious sexism. Equally incredible, though admittedly more interesting, is the story of its director, Ben Pickering, a former Tory candidate convicted in 2014 for his involvement in a £5m mortgage scam.
- 6/10/2018
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
Check out the Teaser Trailer for upcoming crime thriller Welcome to Curiosity set for release in May. Welcome to Curiosity is the second feature from British director Ben Pickering and is the world’s first film to have raised its entire production budget through equity crowdfunding. A heist followed by betrayal, a serial killer on the loose, a lunatic out of the asylum, a girl stepping out with a very bad man and a salesman with a vivid imagination: five people whose lives are interconnected without them knowing it but all sharing one thing in common: curiosity kills... Welcome to Curiosity is Directed by Ben Pickering and stars: Amrita Acharia, Jack Ashton, Richard Blackwood, Kacey Clarke, Cristian Solimeno, Lili Bordan, Stephen Marcus and Eke Chukwu ...
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- 3/20/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Matt Di Angelo, Lili Bordán, Stephen Marcus, Darren Ripley, Velibor Topic, Christian Brassington, Anna Passey, Jeff Leach, Lindsay Armaou, Alan Ford | Written by Darren Ripley | Directed by Ben Pickering
The modern British gangster movies are strange beasts, and I admit I do have a weakness for them. With acting that is often questionable and stories that tend to be on the sillier side of crime thrillers they have a charm that can even survive a Danny Dyer starring role (that was a joke, don’t bite my head off). The Smoke, to be fair, only takes a gentle stroll into the British gangster movie style, though it does feature some actors that you’ve seen in them before, and more bizarrely more than its fair share of soap stars too.
When city lawyer Brad Walker (Matt Di’Angelo) finds himself fired and dumped by his girlfriend it’s fair...
The modern British gangster movies are strange beasts, and I admit I do have a weakness for them. With acting that is often questionable and stories that tend to be on the sillier side of crime thrillers they have a charm that can even survive a Danny Dyer starring role (that was a joke, don’t bite my head off). The Smoke, to be fair, only takes a gentle stroll into the British gangster movie style, though it does feature some actors that you’ve seen in them before, and more bizarrely more than its fair share of soap stars too.
When city lawyer Brad Walker (Matt Di’Angelo) finds himself fired and dumped by his girlfriend it’s fair...
- 10/21/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Comedies dominate Films Boutique’s line-up of market premieres at next week’s Marché du Film in Cannes.
The Berlin-based sales outfit will be presenting three comedies among its latest pickups.
These include Serbian writer-director Darko Lungulov’s Monument To Michael Jackson. It follows his award-winning feature Here And There and was pitched at various co-production events, including Sofia Meetings and Moscow Business Square; the film was co-produced by Macedonia’s Producer on the Move, Ognen Antov of Dream Factory Macedonia;T
The other two titles are Belgian film-maker Geoffrey Enthoven’s Halfway and Pascal Rabaté’s Patchwork Family, to be released in France on July 9 by Ad Vitam Distribution, as buyers-only screenings.
Halfway is the second film by Enthoven to be handled internationally by Films Boutique after the sales company had sold Come As You Are, a drama about three disabled youngsters going to Spain to get laid, to 42 territories...
The Berlin-based sales outfit will be presenting three comedies among its latest pickups.
These include Serbian writer-director Darko Lungulov’s Monument To Michael Jackson. It follows his award-winning feature Here And There and was pitched at various co-production events, including Sofia Meetings and Moscow Business Square; the film was co-produced by Macedonia’s Producer on the Move, Ognen Antov of Dream Factory Macedonia;T
The other two titles are Belgian film-maker Geoffrey Enthoven’s Halfway and Pascal Rabaté’s Patchwork Family, to be released in France on July 9 by Ad Vitam Distribution, as buyers-only screenings.
Halfway is the second film by Enthoven to be handled internationally by Films Boutique after the sales company had sold Come As You Are, a drama about three disabled youngsters going to Spain to get laid, to 42 territories...
- 5/8/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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