“Angry neighbours make unlikely allies…”
Written by Ally Mackie, produced by Candid Broads and starring Emma Appleton (Everything I know About Love, The Witcher) and Anna Savva (The Durrells, Prime Suspect), Kotti has just been selected for the IMAGINE THIS film festival in New York.
2011 saw rising rents across Europe, ethnic minorities were especially vulnerable as thousands were left facing eviction. Inspired by true events that took place in a small, neglected district in Berlin, Kotti is a short comedy about a group of immigrants, communists, gay activists and punk squatters. These unlikely allies are an inspiring example of the power of community: bridging cultural and political divides to ultimately change the face of German housing legislation.
Status: see Kotti at Imagine This Film Festival in New York and Bafta qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival.
Stella is the first episode of Before the Funeral, a x7 episode dangerously black-humoured anthology series set in the UK. Each episode explores the relationships we have in life, through the lens of a death. Every story is a celebration of what makes us different and a reminder of the universal truths that govern us all: life, death, and human relationships.
Before the Funeral is directed by JMK winner Caroline Steinbeis, and produced by Finite Films, Pinzutu Films and Backscatter Productions. Stella stars Sylvestra Le Touzel (Intelligence, The Crown), Simon Rouse (Life, Broadchurch), Laurence Howarth, Ally Mackie and Isabella Speaight.
Status: submitted to festivals
It’s everything we dream we’d do if only we had the balls. That sun lounger fantasy that just won’t quit. What if we could escape the grind and run away to blue skies, rolling waves and bikini bods? It’s the reason we watch reruns of A PLACE IN THE SUN and linger creepily outside estate agent windows advertising holiday homes we can’t afford.
ISLAND IN THE SUN is about two wholly underqualified women running a sustainable B&B on the island of Mallorca. It has all the wholesome romance of COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS, if by romance we mean a business partnership. Eco-farming, creative accounting, unruly guests, local criminals, unlikely romance, motherhood, and the power of female friendship.
Craving both the adventure of their 20s and the security of approaching middle age these women navigate their own version of a 30-something crisis. Our characters soon find living with one foot in the past and one foot in the future often leads to a massive front wedgie.
‘Upstairs Downstairs meets The Inbetweeners’
The Hoopers have just come ‘into a bit of money’ and boy are they flouting it – designer clothes, flash car, holidays in the Maldives, enlarged house, enlarged breasts. It’s a shame unruly children and an infirm mother-in-law make keeping up appearances so difficult; but then, that’s what the staff are for…
A whacky sitcom series set in rural Devon, Keeping House runs for x6 30-minute episodes. It celebrates some of the often-unsung heroes of the nation: the builders, the cleaners, the nurses and the nannies.
“Knives Out meets Greta Thunberg.”
Renewable energy exec, Thomás Sarao, is found gently circling in wide revolutions, skewered by his own wind turbine. It’s the day after a violent storm on an offshore wind farm in the Atlantic and everyone’s been locked in for the night. Everyone except one terrified Afghani cleaner.
Good Energy uses a murder mystery narrative (and a touch of humour) to get right to the rotten heart of the renewables industry. This is a world we’ve never seen before, a world full of bright young things fighting for a better future. It’s an industry universally recognised as vital to our survival; one people want to understand. Like Suits or The Flight Attendant we’ll lift the lid on a mysterious realm of rural wind farms, offshore graft, workshop gossip, gender politics and greenwashed investment deals.
Wonderland was recently shortlisted for the BBC Studios Writer’s Academy. It is a darkly comic murder mystery mini-series. Under the guise of an up-beat, black-humoured romp, the series slowly transforms into an intensely claustrophobic exploration of our relationship with guilt.
Cinematic, emotional, thrilling and rooted in character, Wonderland is a wholly inappropriate homage to Agatha Christie, written by a noughties teen who never grew up.
Written and directed by Luke Brookner. Produced by Sticker Studios and OPM Pictures, starring Nathaniel Christian, Hannah Zoe Ankrah and Josephine Sampson. Script editing by Ally Mackie.
Status: submitted to festivals
“Gentleman Jack meets Scrubs.”
A drama based on real-life 19th-century military surgeon and pioneer of contemporary medicine, Inspector General James Barry. Only after his death was it revealed that Dr Barry was, in fact, a woman: to fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, Miranda Barry spent nearly sixty years spectacularly deceiving the world.
In a repeating series that charts Miranda AKA “James” Barry’s extraordinary rise through the ranks of the British Army, we’ll see her performing medical feats and become embroiled in her personal dramas, as well as those of her patients and colleagues. During series one, we’ll see her disguising herself as a man to attend The University of Edinburgh; her acceptance into the military; and her arrival in Cape Town, where she catches the attention of Lieutenant General Lord Somerset when she saves his dying daughter. The remainder of the series will follow her illustrious and controversial career traveling throughout the British empire to her forced retirement and death, when all records relating Dr James Barry were sealed by military officials for 100 years.
In a mashup that could just about be described as “I May Destroy You meets Breakfast At Tiffany’s”, Jen Y addresses the mental health crisis we are facing in the UK today through the lens of an unusual friendship.
The first book in a darkly comic adventure series about Lupin, a reluctant devil. Aimed at children aged 7-9.
Tilly McBride and the Forgotten Children is a darkly comic adventure series, aimed at children aged 7-9.
Tilly lives next to the sea with her father and her black sable ferret, Piquet, until an unexpected knock on the door changes her life forever.
