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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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.[citation needed].
Productions
[edit]| 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
[edit]- ^ "IMDB page for Fifth Column Films". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "Edinburgh Film Festival listing". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "15 Second Film Festival listing". Archived from the original on 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "Guardian article". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "Screen Daily release notice". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "Film Distributors Association listings". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ "Shooting People article on distribution". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
External links
[edit]- Fifth Column Films website
- Boat People official website
- Way of the Morris official website
- TEMPEST official website
- Ballad of Shirley Collins official website
