Fifth Column Films

Fifth Column Films is a UK film production company best known for feature documentaries Way of the Morris and TEMPEST.[1]

Early films

Established in 2006, their first project was fiction drama The Boat People, starring Raquel Cassidy and Nabil Elouahabi. They proceeded to make the UK Film Council funded short film Domestics in 2008, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.[2] The same year, their microfilm Slaphappy, directed by Tim Plester won best film at the Belfast Film Festival[3] in the 15 second category.

Feature documentaries

in 2011, they had their first major breakthrough with Way of the Morris, a feature documentary by Tim Plester and Rob Curry, about Tim's Morris Dancing village in Oxfordshire. The film premiered at SXSW in 2011,[4] before being released in UK cinemas that summer. The following year, they followed it up with TEMPEST, a feature documentary directed by Rob Curry and Anthony Fletcher.[5] The company self-distributed both films in UK cinemas,[6] an unusual achievement for a small independent production company.[7]

Future work

The company is currently in production on a feature documentary about folk singer Shirley Collins, and a fiction short, Truck, which has been commissioned by Creative England and the BFI..

Productions

Film Year Director Notes
The Boat People 2007 Rob Curry Fiction feature
Domestics 2008 Rob Curry Short film
Slaphappy 2008 Tim Plester Short film
End of the Line 2009 Rob Curry Short film
Forbidden 2009 Rob Curry Short film
The Living End 2009 Rob Curry Short film
Way of the Morris 2011 Tim Plester, Rob Curry Feature documentary
TEMPEST 2012 Anthony Fletcher, Rob Curry Feature documentary
Here We'm Be Together 2014 Tim Plester, Rob Curry Short film
The Ballad of Shirley Collins 2016 Tim Plester, Rob Curry Feature documentary

References

  1. ↑ "IMDB page for Fifth Column Films". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  2. ↑ "Edinburgh Film Festival listing". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  3. ↑ "15 Second Film Festival listing". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  4. ↑ "Guardian article". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  5. ↑ "Screen Daily release notice". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  6. ↑ "Film Distributors Association listings". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  7. ↑ "Shooting People article on distribution". Retrieved 2015-01-12.

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