Exclusive: British director created YouTube sensation The Hunt For Gollum.
Gravitas Ventures has picked up Us rights to Chris Bouchard’s gangster film London’s Finest.
Nathanael Wiseman, Arin Alldridge and Enoch Frost star in the story of a small-time drug-dealer who lands in trouble when a corrupt police officer tries to steal a consignment intended for vicious criminals.
Framestore served as executive producer on London’s Finest, while Shudder Films and Porter Pictures co-produced.
Bouchard co-directed the upcoming Hans Christian Andersen adaptation The Little Mermaid that stars Shirley MacLaine and Gina Gershon, as well as YouTube hit The Hunt For Gollum.
“Framestore has a proud history of nurturing talent within its ranks,” global marketing director Stephanie Bruning said. “We were keen to support Chris’ directing work on London’s Finest having been impressed with his ambitious Tolkien fan film.”
The film was released in the UK through Trinity Films as Hackney’s Finest.
Jeff Porter of [link...
Gravitas Ventures has picked up Us rights to Chris Bouchard’s gangster film London’s Finest.
Nathanael Wiseman, Arin Alldridge and Enoch Frost star in the story of a small-time drug-dealer who lands in trouble when a corrupt police officer tries to steal a consignment intended for vicious criminals.
Framestore served as executive producer on London’s Finest, while Shudder Films and Porter Pictures co-produced.
Bouchard co-directed the upcoming Hans Christian Andersen adaptation The Little Mermaid that stars Shirley MacLaine and Gina Gershon, as well as YouTube hit The Hunt For Gollum.
“Framestore has a proud history of nurturing talent within its ranks,” global marketing director Stephanie Bruning said. “We were keen to support Chris’ directing work on London’s Finest having been impressed with his ambitious Tolkien fan film.”
The film was released in the UK through Trinity Films as Hackney’s Finest.
Jeff Porter of [link...
- 7/31/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Former Prescience exec [pictured left] will head up Redeeming Features Capital.
UK company Redeeming Features has hired Lee Vandermolen to head up its financing arm Redeeming Features Capital.
Former Prescience exec Vandermolen has deployed more than $75m in financing across feature and TV projects including Sin City 2, Chef and Kilo 2 Bravo. He will work alongside Redeeming Features principals Nathanael Wiseman and Jezz Vernon, who are attending this week’s Efm.
The company launched in 2016 and has been bolstering its team over the last twelve months. It also operates a Scandinavian branch based in Oslo.
In December 2016, Wiseman bought an 80% stake in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Vernon, who joined Redeeming as co-ceo.
UK company Redeeming Features has hired Lee Vandermolen to head up its financing arm Redeeming Features Capital.
Former Prescience exec Vandermolen has deployed more than $75m in financing across feature and TV projects including Sin City 2, Chef and Kilo 2 Bravo. He will work alongside Redeeming Features principals Nathanael Wiseman and Jezz Vernon, who are attending this week’s Efm.
The company launched in 2016 and has been bolstering its team over the last twelve months. It also operates a Scandinavian branch based in Oslo.
In December 2016, Wiseman bought an 80% stake in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Vernon, who joined Redeeming as co-ceo.
- 2/13/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK production outfit buys 80% of shares in production and consultancy venture Port Royal.
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Former actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Former actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK production outfit buys 80% of shares in production and consultancy venture Port Royal.
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Production company makes trio of hires as it plans growth.
Fledgling UK production outfit Redeeming Features has bolstered its team with three hires as it plots growth across its production and film finance divisions.
CEO Nathanael Wiseman has appointed Nathaniel-Antonio Lloyd as head of development. Lloyd was previously a freelance script editor and ghost writer.
Vivian Richmond has been appointed to assistant head of production. She joins from branding agency The Specialist Works.
Katarina Gellin has been hired as managing director for Redeeming Scandinavia, the outfit’s Norwegian sister company which has recently gone into post-production on its first TV production, the documentary Aldri For Seint (Never Too Late), about Norway’s oldest and most successful senior cabaret group.
Redeeming’s Scandi branch is also in pre-production on TV comedy series Ruined, featuring comedians Olli Wermskog and Lars Berrum.
Commenting on the company’s plans for growth, Nathanael Wiseman said: “Redeeming Features will continue to have...
Fledgling UK production outfit Redeeming Features has bolstered its team with three hires as it plots growth across its production and film finance divisions.
CEO Nathanael Wiseman has appointed Nathaniel-Antonio Lloyd as head of development. Lloyd was previously a freelance script editor and ghost writer.
Vivian Richmond has been appointed to assistant head of production. She joins from branding agency The Specialist Works.
Katarina Gellin has been hired as managing director for Redeeming Scandinavia, the outfit’s Norwegian sister company which has recently gone into post-production on its first TV production, the documentary Aldri For Seint (Never Too Late), about Norway’s oldest and most successful senior cabaret group.
Redeeming’s Scandi branch is also in pre-production on TV comedy series Ruined, featuring comedians Olli Wermskog and Lars Berrum.
Commenting on the company’s plans for growth, Nathanael Wiseman said: “Redeeming Features will continue to have...
- 9/22/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Nathanael Wiseman’s Margate-shot drama about a small-time drug dealer has a brisk pace and a strong sense of place
This low-budget British drama shot in and around Margate – about a low-level drug dealer (Nathanael Wiseman) compelled by circumstance to look after a young, suddenly orphaned but adorably feisty little girl (Alexandra Newick) – rarely fails to deploy a cliche. Star Wiseman and his co-writing, co-directing associate Robert Osman line them up neatly: the protagonist with a childhood spent in foster homes, a morally bankrupt best friend, a baddie (Mem Ferda) who runs a flower shop, even a mentor father figure who works at the local boxing gym. The kid even wears a cheap superhero costume, all the better to milk the irony of her powerlessness. But there are enough grace notes and felicitous bits of business to make this a reasonably likable effort. Naturalistic performances and a sense of place...
This low-budget British drama shot in and around Margate – about a low-level drug dealer (Nathanael Wiseman) compelled by circumstance to look after a young, suddenly orphaned but adorably feisty little girl (Alexandra Newick) – rarely fails to deploy a cliche. Star Wiseman and his co-writing, co-directing associate Robert Osman line them up neatly: the protagonist with a childhood spent in foster homes, a morally bankrupt best friend, a baddie (Mem Ferda) who runs a flower shop, even a mentor father figure who works at the local boxing gym. The kid even wears a cheap superhero costume, all the better to milk the irony of her powerlessness. But there are enough grace notes and felicitous bits of business to make this a reasonably likable effort. Naturalistic performances and a sense of place...
- 4/28/2016
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
★★☆☆☆ "Where you going to run? This is Margate!" yells the stocky Mr. Big of the over-familiar seaside crime thriller Hard Tide. This small town on the Kent coast seems an unlikely setting for nefarious doings but the film starts out as a convincing enough tale. Jake (Nathanael Wiseman) is a drug dealer and enforcer, a chippy skinhead who strides about the waterfront and housing estates with his bag of wares and the occasional duffing up to be delivered. He has a past of foster homes and a criminal kingpin father (Ralph Brown) who is about to go into prison and leave his estranged son in charge of the family business.
- 4/27/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Exclusive: Crime drama premiered at Raindance in 2015.
UK distribution outfit Metrodome has picked up Hard Tide (previously titled My Hero) for a theatrical release in April.
The crime drama, which premiered at the 2015 Raindance Film Festival, is from directing and writing duo Robert Osman and Nathanael Wiseman.
Wiseman also stars alongside Mem Ferda (Revolver), Oliver Stark (Into The Badlands) and first time actress Alexandra Newick in the story of a small time criminal who forms an unlikely friendship with a neglected young girl when the pair are forced to go on the run.
UK rapper Mic Righteous produced original music for the film alongside composer Si Begg.
Hard Tide marks the debut feature of London/Oslo-based production outfit Redeeming Features, which was launched last year by Katarina Gellin, Gary Thomson and Wiseman.
Aldamisa Entertainment handles the film’s worldwide sales rights.
UK distribution outfit Metrodome has picked up Hard Tide (previously titled My Hero) for a theatrical release in April.
The crime drama, which premiered at the 2015 Raindance Film Festival, is from directing and writing duo Robert Osman and Nathanael Wiseman.
Wiseman also stars alongside Mem Ferda (Revolver), Oliver Stark (Into The Badlands) and first time actress Alexandra Newick in the story of a small time criminal who forms an unlikely friendship with a neglected young girl when the pair are forced to go on the run.
UK rapper Mic Righteous produced original music for the film alongside composer Si Begg.
Hard Tide marks the debut feature of London/Oslo-based production outfit Redeeming Features, which was launched last year by Katarina Gellin, Gary Thomson and Wiseman.
Aldamisa Entertainment handles the film’s worldwide sales rights.
- 3/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Us sales outfit have purchased the worldwide rights to the upcoming British film.
Aldamisa Entertainment, the Us financing, production and sales company, has picked up world sales rights to UK thriller My Hero.
The film, set to premiere at Raindance Film Festival (Sept 23 – Oct 4) in London on Sept 25, is the first feature from London/Oslo-based production outfit Redeeming Features, launched earlier this year by Katarina Gellin, Nathanael Wiseman, and Gary Thomson.
Wiseman is co-directing the film with fellow debutant Robert Osman. The pair also wrote the screenplay, which follows a small time criminal who goes on the run with a nine-year-old girl after a fatal accident.
Wiseman also stars in the film, alongside first time actress Alexandra Newick, Mem Ferda (Revolver) and Ralph Brown (Alien3).
Gellin is producing the project, while Thomson is acting as executive producer.
Aldamisa Entertainment, the Us financing, production and sales company, has picked up world sales rights to UK thriller My Hero.
The film, set to premiere at Raindance Film Festival (Sept 23 – Oct 4) in London on Sept 25, is the first feature from London/Oslo-based production outfit Redeeming Features, launched earlier this year by Katarina Gellin, Nathanael Wiseman, and Gary Thomson.
Wiseman is co-directing the film with fellow debutant Robert Osman. The pair also wrote the screenplay, which follows a small time criminal who goes on the run with a nine-year-old girl after a fatal accident.
Wiseman also stars in the film, alongside first time actress Alexandra Newick, Mem Ferda (Revolver) and Ralph Brown (Alien3).
Gellin is producing the project, while Thomson is acting as executive producer.
- 9/17/2015
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Nathanael Wiseman, Arin Alldridge, Enoch Frost, Marlon G. Day, Rajan Sharma, Neerja Naik, Malcolm Tomlinson, Sean Cronin, Jeanette Rourke, Christopher Dingli, Katarina Gellin | Written by Thorin Seex | Directed by Chris Bouchard
I’ve reviewed quite a few British gangster movies and know what to expect, some take themselves a little too seriously and others look to offer comedy. As long as you know that then there is a good chance they end up being entertaining at least. The British gangster movie to be released is Hackney’s Finest, which is a film I remember looking for funding from a Kickstarter campaign, so it’s nice to see an independent film getting some success to mainstream distribution.
Sirus (Nathanael Wiseman) is a small time drug dealer who, when his friend Asif (Rajan Sharma) offers him a new delivery of drugs invites his Welsh friends Tony (Enoch Frost) and B (Marlon G. Day...
I’ve reviewed quite a few British gangster movies and know what to expect, some take themselves a little too seriously and others look to offer comedy. As long as you know that then there is a good chance they end up being entertaining at least. The British gangster movie to be released is Hackney’s Finest, which is a film I remember looking for funding from a Kickstarter campaign, so it’s nice to see an independent film getting some success to mainstream distribution.
Sirus (Nathanael Wiseman) is a small time drug dealer who, when his friend Asif (Rajan Sharma) offers him a new delivery of drugs invites his Welsh friends Tony (Enoch Frost) and B (Marlon G. Day...
- 4/17/2015
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
London crime drama, from the director of YouTube hit The Hunt for Gollum, set for release early 2015.
UK distribution and production company Trinity has acquired Chris Bouchard’s debut feature, Hackney’s Finest, which premiered at this year’s East End Film Festival. Release has been earmarked for early 2015.
Set in London’s East End, the film centres on a group of small-time Afghan heroin dealers and hapless minicab operator Sirus (Nathanael Wiseman) are forced to take on corrupt detective inspector Priestley (Arin Allridge) and his Russian associates, while having to face gun-toting Welsh-Jamaican yardies Tony and B (Marlon G. Day, Enoch Frost).
Hackney’s Finest is based on an original story written by Thorin Seex, a former heroin addict and squatter living on Hackney’s notorious ‘murder mile’.
It is executive produced by Framestore, the London visual-effects company behind Gravity.
It marks the debut feature of Bouchard’s and actor-producer Alldridge. Bouchard previously...
UK distribution and production company Trinity has acquired Chris Bouchard’s debut feature, Hackney’s Finest, which premiered at this year’s East End Film Festival. Release has been earmarked for early 2015.
Set in London’s East End, the film centres on a group of small-time Afghan heroin dealers and hapless minicab operator Sirus (Nathanael Wiseman) are forced to take on corrupt detective inspector Priestley (Arin Allridge) and his Russian associates, while having to face gun-toting Welsh-Jamaican yardies Tony and B (Marlon G. Day, Enoch Frost).
Hackney’s Finest is based on an original story written by Thorin Seex, a former heroin addict and squatter living on Hackney’s notorious ‘murder mile’.
It is executive produced by Framestore, the London visual-effects company behind Gravity.
It marks the debut feature of Bouchard’s and actor-producer Alldridge. Bouchard previously...
- 8/26/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Launched on Kickstarter last month, upcoming British gangster film, Hackney’s Finest, is heading for the last hurdles on its path to distribution.
The two-month production was completed earlier in the year, and is just shy of its £6,000 goal over on Kickstarter, with a little under a week left on the clock.
To help whet your appetite, a new extended trailer has landed online, giving a good look at what’s to come. And though some of the accents feel a little off – though, having never been to Hackney, take that with a pinch of salt – it looks like a kind of Lock, Stock fifteen years on.
Hackney’s Finest is a lighthearted journey into the dark underbelly of London. A fast-paced crime thriller, packed with intrigue, corruption, dirty police, Afghan heroin smugglers, Welsh-Jamaican arms dealers and Eastern-European skinheads!
A ruthless police detective plans to steal a shipment of heroin...
The two-month production was completed earlier in the year, and is just shy of its £6,000 goal over on Kickstarter, with a little under a week left on the clock.
To help whet your appetite, a new extended trailer has landed online, giving a good look at what’s to come. And though some of the accents feel a little off – though, having never been to Hackney, take that with a pinch of salt – it looks like a kind of Lock, Stock fifteen years on.
Hackney’s Finest is a lighthearted journey into the dark underbelly of London. A fast-paced crime thriller, packed with intrigue, corruption, dirty police, Afghan heroin smugglers, Welsh-Jamaican arms dealers and Eastern-European skinheads!
A ruthless police detective plans to steal a shipment of heroin...
- 8/2/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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