CHURCHILL

Genre: Historical drama

Writer: Alex Von Tunzelmann

Producers: Nick Taussig & Paul Van Carter

Budget: $7.5M

International sales: TBA

Synopsis: A bruising character study of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, set against the “ticking-clock” of the 24 hours before D-Day, 1944.

Developed with the support of the BFI (British Film Institute)

 

 

LENNY

Genre: Sports drama

Writer & Director: Eva Sørhaug

Producers: Jamie McLean, Nick Taussig & Paul Van Carter

Budget: $5M

International sales: TBA

Synopsis: Adapted from bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean’s own biography The Guv’nor Tapes, Lenny is an uncompromising portrait exploring this violent man’s vulnerabilities.

 

 

MEET ME IN TEN YEARS

Genre: Comedy

Director: Sharon Horgan

Writer: Frances Poletti

Producers: Nick Taussig & Paul Van Carter

Budget: $2.5M

International sales: TBA

Synopsis: Mid-20s New Yorker, Ava, wins a government lottery to spend thirty minutes with a version of herself – from ten years in the future – but they prove incapable of getting along.

Developed with the support of Creative England through the BFI NET.WORK

 

 

LAUNDRYMEN

Genre: Thriller

Director: Ian Bonhote

Writer: Christopher Bell

Producers: Nick Taussig & Paul Van Carter

Budget: $2M

International sales: TBA

Synopsis: Based on a true story, a group of men in California suffering from ‘the bends’ are locked in a decompression recovery chamber. When one dies, a murder investigation is launched, and all are revealed to have motive.

 

 

IVAN AND THE DOGS

Genre: Stage adaptation

Director: Andrew Kotting

Writer: Hattie Naylor

Producers: Nick Taussig & Paul Van Carter

Budget: $500K

International sales: TBA

Synopsis: The extraordinary true story of a starving child who walks out of his home and onto the wintry streets of Moscow. Adopted by a pack of wild dogs, he lives out a brief but dramatic life struggling to stay alive.