3 December 2009

Shock Head Soul

Filed under: Films — Janine Marmot @ 2:03 pm

Hot Property for the Wellcome Institute, in partnership with Submarine (The Netherlands)
Status: in post production.
Cast: Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pheifer, Thom Hoffman, Jochum ten Haaf
Producers: Janine Marmot, Femke Wolting and Bruno Felix
Executive Producer Keith Griffiths Co Producer Marc Thelosen
This cross-media documentary (film, installation and website) explores the life and writings of Daniel Paul Schreber. Now famous as an Outsider Artist, Schreber was a successful lawyer, who in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a ‘Writing Down Machine’ that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next nine years confined to an asylum: this is his story.

2 December 2009

The Edible Woman

Filed under: Development Slate — Janine Marmot @ 5:11 pm

An adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman

Director: Francine Zuckerman

Producers:  Janine Marmot and Sandra Cunningham

Partners:  Telefilm, Canada

Status:  In development

Brand New U

Filed under: Development Slate — Janine Marmot @ 5:10 pm

A film stripped down to the barest elements of a thriller, but re-arranged into the logic of a nightmare.

Writer/Director:  Simon Pummell.

Producer:  Janine Marmot

Partners:  UK Film Council

Status:  In development

YES

Filed under: Development Slate — Janine Marmot @ 5:09 pm

An adaptation of  William Gibson’s Dogfight  – a 3D film

A 3D gaming film, set in an underworld of illegal Internet gambling and pornography, perhaps just one minute in the future:  a world of consensual hallucinations powered by the addictive drug YES.

Writer/Director:  Simon Pummell

Producer:  Janine Marmot

Status:  In development, seeking development finance

Shock Head Soul

Filed under: Development Slate — Janine Marmot @ 5:09 pm

This cross-media documentary (film, installation and website) explores the life and writings of Daniel Paul Schreber. Now famous as an Outsider Artist, Schreber was a successful lawyer, who in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a ‘Writing Down Machine’ that spanned the cosmos.   He spent the next nine years confined to an asylum:  this is his story.

Writer/Director:  Simon Pummell

Executive Producers:  Janine Marmot, Keith Griffiths and Femke Wolting

Partners: Wellcome Institute, in partnership with Submarine (The Netherlands)

Status:  in production

Kelly + Victor

Filed under: Development Slate — Janine Marmot @ 5:03 pm

A feature adaptation of Niall Griffiths’ acclaimed novel.

“a love story that has all the signs of becoming a modern classic” (The Times)

“Griffiths latest masterpiece (Kelly +Victor) consolidates his status as one of Britain’s most talented young writers” (Time Out)

Director:  Kieran Evans

Screenwriters:  Kieran Evans and Niall Griffiths

Producer:  Janine Marmot

Co Producer: Andrew Freedman of Venom Films

Partners:  Film Agency Wales,Irish Film Board,FilmFour, and Heavenly Records Developed with FilmFour

Status:     Script complete, financed

Slow Motion Explosion

Filed under: Development Slate — Janine Marmot @ 4:16 pm

One Funeral.  One Woman.  Two Brothers.  Three Lovers.  Six Mourners.

But only one question: How did Colin King Die?

Six Stories: but there’s only one truth.  A puzzle film using the setting of Smithfield meat market, and London’s underworld to tell a story of one family’s secrets.

Director and writer:  Simon Pummell

Producer:  Janine Marmot

Cast:  Timothy Spall

Partners:  UK Film Council and MEDIA

Status:  Casting and financing

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