Development Slate
Slow Motion Explosion
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
Kelly + Victor
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
Cast: Natalie Press and Harry Treadaway
Partners: FilmFour, Film Agency Wales, and Heavenly Records
Status: Script complete, raising finance
Brand New U
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
Shock Head Soul
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
YES
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
The Edible Woman
An adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
Director: Francine Zuckerman
Producers: Janine Marmot and Sandra Cunningham
Partners: Telefilm, Canada
Status: In development