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IN THE MEANTIME, HERE’S THE STORY SO FAR:
We are currently developing and producing very exciting projects including movies, feature docs, drama & comedy series and premium factual formats with a range of networks and SVODs, as well as industry leading co-producers, show-runners, writers and directors
ABOUT A BELL
WE ARE CURRENTLY IN POST PRODUCTION ON ABOUT A BELL, A FEATURE FILM DIRECTED BY SIMON CALLOW STARRING OMID DJALILI, ELEANOR WORTHINGTON-COX, CHRIS ECCLESTON, NIGEL HAVERS & ROGER ALLAM…
SYNOPSIS
SAMI (OMID DJALILI), A SYRIAN REFUGEE, AND BRYONY (ELEANOR WORTHINGTON-COX), A YOUNG LIBRARIAN, EMBARK ON A HIGHLY PERSONAL QUEST TO PRESERVE A BELL FROM A DEMOLISHED CHURCH, AND END UP FALLING FOUL OF THE LOCAL LAW, AND DC HOLMAN (CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON)…
ABOUT A BELL IS AN UPLIFTING AND MOVING DRAMA WITH A STELLAR CAST AND DIRECTOR
IT’S A MODERN FABLE THAT WILL ENGAGE AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE
TEAM
JASPER WARRY
FOUNDER & CEO
Jasper is an award-winning writer, producer and director with over 20 years experience in TV & film production and development of both scripted and unscripted film and TV.
A member of BAFTA and the WGGB, he’s sat on the BAFTA Cymru Regions Committee, and was a PACT delegate at the 2024 Troya Film Platform in Turkey.
As a writer/director his films and screenplays have been selected for various international film festivals, nominated for and won awards, and screened on TV networks across the world, and he’s developed TV projects with Channel 4 and Avalon Television.
He’s also an alumnus of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Labs where he was selected as a writer/director. He was recently selected for the BFI UK Global Screen Fund Co-Producing Workshop, has tutored at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and has composed and performed all the soundtracks on his films.
As a documentary maker, he’s directed numerous films for charities and political campaigns, often dealing with equality and mental health issues, and recently exec produced and directed two 60′ documentaries for ITV, the BAFTA Cymru nominated Can I Be Welsh And Black? and and Climbing Out of Lockdown.
COLIN VAINES
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – FILM & DRAMA
Colin is an Emmy winning producer who works on our film and drama projects at Hello Deer.
After co-Editing Screen International, ran the UK’s National Film Development Fund before overseeing UK development at Columbia Pictures. He went on to hold key positions in the UK and USA at companies like David Puttnam’s Enigma, The Film Consortium and Miramax Films.
His filmography includes Memphis Belle, multi Academy Ward nominated Gangs of New York and The Rum Diary, and he recently produced Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (Sony Pictures) and The Unforgivable (Netflix) with Sandra Bullock.
PATRICK IRWIN
EXECUTIVE CHAIR
Patrick is a hugely experienced media executive – a trained accountant, he started at Deloittes with theatre and music industry clients (including the Spice Girls!), before moving into TV as an executive producer.
In TV drama he worked at Box TV with Gub Neal. Together they then co-founded Artists Studio and Far Moor Media, producing Thorne (BskyB), The Fall (BBC/Netflix), Combat Hospital (ABC/Global) and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (BBC/BBC America). In 2021 he acted as interim MD of Ringside Studios & Ringside Media , overseeing the acquisition of a number of investee companies and production of the Apple TV series Liaison.
He has recently exec produced Bafta Cymru winning Welsh/English drama Bang (S4C/BBC), five seasons of Miss Scarlet and the Duke (PBS Masterpiece), The Vanishing Triangle (Channel 5 & AMC/Sundance Now) and most recently The Puzzle Lady (Channel 5, PBS and ZDFS).
KATY DAYKIN
HEAD OF UNSCRIPTED PRODUCTION
Katy has wide range of experience line producing on factual productions for many broadcasters. She has a track record of delivering programmes with the highest production values.
Previous projects include Salvage Hunters: The Restorers (Series 4&5, Discovery Networks), The One Show (BBC), Drain The Oceans (Nat Geo), Hayley Goes… (BBC Wales), Time Team (Channel 4), Springwatch & Autumnwatch (BBC), New Year Live (BBC), and The Slammer (CBBC).
GARETH I DAVIES
HEAD OF SCRIPTED PRODUCTION
Gareth is a highly regarded and experienced Line Producer with a passion for independent feature film and television drama production.
Since 2010, Gareth has worked extensively as a Line Producer with award-winning UK and international productions on budgets ranging from £1M to £10M.
Previous productions include Before We Die (Channel4), Craith (Hidden) (BBC/S4C), McDonald & Dodds (ITV), U-Boat Wargamers (History Channel), The Feast (Joio), Two for Joy (Blonde to Black Pictures), Just Jim (Vox Pictures) and Don’t Knock Twice (Red & Black Films).
CHARITY & CAMPAIGN FILMS
We have produced many films for charities and campaigns in recent years, often centred around social justice and mental health. Projects include:
SOS: SILENCE OF SUICIDE, a brilliant mental health charity founded by Yvette Greenwayand legendary human rights lawyer,Michael Mansfield KC – we made a film with them at the very beginning that featuredRuby Wax andBBC Radio 4’s, Laurie Taylor which can still be seen on the their WEBSITE.
BACKTO60, an organisation that campaigns against the government’s changes to womens’ state pensions. The series of films featured famous supporters like Frances Barber and Ken Loach, and tracked their progress as they took the government to the supreme court over their shocking handling of 1950s born women.
DRIVEN TO DESPAIR, a campaign focused on addressing and highlighting the mental health of taxi drivers in London, and around the world, that has been deeply affected by changes to their industry in recent years.
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