Funded projects

The Floaties (fiction)

Writer/director Ciaran Lyons, Producer Beth Allan

An over-educated, under-achieving millennial reinvents her whole life and identity around facing her anxiety-inducing hallucinations - but then suddenly everyone else starts seeing them too.

Spiral (fiction)

Writer/director Mikko Mäkelä, Producer James Watson

A talented 19-year old contemporary dancer discovers the darker side of London’s gay scene - the world of chemsex.

The Good Ones (fiction)*

Writers Coral Amiga and Nicole Hartley, Producers Emilie Jouffroy and Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl

After breaking up with her long term boyfriend, Bonnie faces a long, hot London summer as she attempts to reorient herself in the shifting landscape of friendship, dating and love in her mid-thirties.

*denotes a second round of development funding from The Uncertain Kingdom

The Good Ones (fiction)

Writers Coral Amiga and Nicole Hartley, Producers Emilie Jouffroy and Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl

After breaking up with her long term boyfriend, Bonnie faces a long, hot London summer as she attempts to reorient herself in the shifting landscape of friendship, dating and love in her mid-thirties.

Signs of Life (fiction)

Writer and director Pinny Grylls, Producers Rebecca Wolff and Julia Ton

A dark comedy about one woman’s journey towards self acceptance through learning Sign Language

The Other Preppers (documentary)

Producer and director San F. Young

Long Live Noir* (documentary)

Director Matt Kay, Producers Lucy Draper and Rory Calder

Noir: Britain's first Black rock band who disappeared without a trace. Uncovering the shocking history of one of Rock & Roll’s forgotten classics, and following one band’s fight for justice in a racist industry, as they reclaim the story of their phenomenal debut album.

*denotes a second round of development funding from The Uncertain Kingdom

Long Live Noir (documentary)

Director Matt Kay, Producers Lucy Draper and Rory Calder

Noir: Britain's first Black rock band who disappeared without a trace. Uncovering the shocking history of one of Rock & Roll’s forgotten classics, and following one band’s fight for justice in a racist industry, as they reclaim the story of their phenomenal debut album.

The Beetle* (fiction)

Writer and director Henry Blake, Co-Writer Xiao Tang, Producers Victoria Bavister and Denzil Monk

1919. A Chinese dock worker and an English woman fall in love, but societal hatred transmogrifies her into a beetle. Cocooned from the pain, can their love transcend?

*denotes a second round of development funding from The Uncertain Kingdom

Our Land (documentary)

Director Orban Wallace, Producers Rebecca Wolff and Leo Smith

Journeying over the walls that divide us, in an exploration into the communities at the heart of the English land justice debate.

The Hills Have Wheels (fiction)

Director Jason Wingard, Writers David Proud and David Isaac, Producer Hannah Stevenson

A group of disabled 18-30s go on an adventure holiday. It should be the time of their lives but they end up fighting for their lives.

Mo & Me (documentary)

Director Hen Norton, Producers Mary Carson and Rachel Lysaght

Mo Mowlam, the architect of the Good Friday Peace agreement, is revealed in all her complexity through the eyes of her step-daughter, filmmaker Hen Norton. Once lauded, now seemingly sidelined from history, this film explores the triumph and tragedy and the quiet erosion of Mo’s once powerful political legacy.

Fulfilment (fiction)

Writer Ted Wilkes, Producer Manon Ardisson

To make ends meet, aspiring novelist Abbie (30s) is forced to take a job as a ‘seasonal associate’ at a warehouse operated by the world’s biggest e-commerce brand, Sahara. But in the shadows of the night shift lurk terrifying creatures, feasting on the flesh of the workers who can’t make quota. Slowly Abbie relishes morphing into one of them…

Time Pieces (documentary)

Director Carol Salter

A lyrical documentary exploring how people work in opposition to or in harmony with time, and how ultimately it controls and defines us. And how saving time today might mean losing it tomorrow.

The Beetle (fiction)

Writer and director Henry Blake, Co-Writer Xiao Tang, Producers Victoria Bavister and Denzil Monk

1919. A Chinese dock worker and an English woman fall in love, but societal hatred transmogrifies her into a beetle. Cocooned from the pain, can their love transcend?

Madam Tinubu (fiction)

Writer Rex Obano, Producer Jennifer Monks

2052. The world as we know it has ended. Only migrating Africans can survive the blistering heat of Britain. After the kidnap of her lover in a tribal rivalry, Madam Tinubu will do anything bring him home, even risking the safety of her people. Will her resolve survive the cruelty of this new world or will she succumb to the Nordic traffickers?