In Development
FIGHT
An adaptation of William Gibson and Michael Swanwick’s DOGFIGHT
Producers: Janine Marmot, Simon Pummell and Damon D’Oliveira
Director: Clement Virgo
Writers: Simon Pummell and Margot Knijn
Genre: Sci-Fi
Status: In development
Partners: BFI with the support of the Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union
FIGHT adapts DOGFIGHT by William Gibson and Michael Swanwick into a classic boxing TVseries with a high-concept science-fiction premise.
EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS
A film by Grant Gee
An adaptation of Owen Martell’s Intermission
Director: Grant Gee
Writer: Mark O’Halloran
Adapted for the screen by Grant Gee and Mark O’Halloran
Producer: Janine Marmot
Co Producer: Alan Maher
Executive Producer: Paul Webster
Genre: Drama
Status: In development
Partners: BFI and Screen Ireland
EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS is a story of extreme personal catastrophe and extraordinary musical beauty. It is also, like I’M NOT THERE, a re invigoration of the biopic genre.
MEMORY
Producer and Director: Michael Whyte
Executive Producer: Janine Marmot
Genre: Documentary
Status: In development
Memory is a fiction created and embellished to make the present reality more acceptable.
An exploration of the present as seen by different communities sharing a common location, a shared history and their memories.
FAR OUT
FAR OUT, A film by Emily Young, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Marie Darrieussecq
Director: Emily Young
Writers: E.V. Crowe and Emily Young
Producers: Janine Marmot and Emily Morgan
Status: In development
Partner: Film4 and Quiddity Films
CURIOSITIES OF FOOLS
Director: Ella Glendining
Producer: Janine Marmot
Genre: Historic drama
Status: In development with the BFI
CURIOSITIES OF FOOLS
Set in the court of King Charles 1st and Queen Henrietta Maria, centring on the world of a disabled court theatre troupe.
PIPER
Director: Simon Pummell
Producer: Janine Marmot
Writers: Simon Pummell and Margot Knijn
Genre: Sci-Fi
Status: In development
PIPER is a science fiction horror story set in the deserted ruin of an abandoned space station: as the story unfolds we see that terrifying possible relationships between human consciousness, animal consciousness and machine consciousness might lie in our future.
THE GOLD MACHINE
Director: Grant Gee
Producer: Janine Marmot
Writers: Iain Sinclair and Grant Gee
Genre: Documentary/road movie
Status: In development
Partners: BFI Doc Society
A creative collaboration with Ashéninka producer Gregorio Santos Perez and English writer Iain Sinclair the film follows their ancestors footsteps to the Peruvian jungle. Their journeys flip between continents and centuries as the narrative is wrested by the Asheninka people, to produce an original mediation – part documentary, part fiction – on fate, family and the search for Eldorado.
PRIEST
A film by Michael Whyte
From Baptism to Last Rites PRIEST follows Father Paul Grogan as he tends to his parish in a deprived area of Bradford
Director: Michael Whyte
Producer: Michael Whyte & Janine Marmot
Status: In production
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Inhabiting a bizarrely unusual body (the body I love), and navigating daily discrimination, I search the world for another like me – Is There Anybody Out There?
A film by Ella Glendining
Producer: Janine Marmot
Executive Producers: Lisa Marie Russo, Nikki Parrott, Mark Thomas, Natasha Dack Ojumu
Cinematographer: Annemarie Lean-Vercoe
Original Music by: Erland Cooper
Editor: Rachel Roberts, Consulting Editor: Claire Ferguson
Partners: BFI Doc Society Fund, Screen Scotland, Chicken & Egg Pictues and the Meadow Fund in co production with Tigerlily Two
Status: In post productions
THE PRICE ON YOUR HEAD
This is a film for anyone who’s ever thought they could be a really good hitman if only they didn’t have to kill anyone. It’s a surprisingly well-lit noir
about a surprisingly charming loner.
An original screenplay by Ned Beauman
Producer: Janine Marmot
Partners: BFI
Status: In development