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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...

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...

★★☆☆☆ "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.

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.

With studio titles like the recent Miss You Already, Revolver and The Devil’s Double to his name, London born actor Mem Ferda is very much a Hollywood player. However, this modest British talent, hasn’t forgotten the importance of supporting low budget British Independent Filmmakers.

Nowhere is this more evident than his latest lead role in the 23rd Raindance Film Festival selected feature My Hero. Here we see Mem deliver a stand-out, riveting performance as, cockney, drug-dealing, gangster-florist, Simon Flowers.

The film which is based on a true story about a small time criminal who goes on the run with a neglected nine year old girl, was shot in costal towns Margate and Ramsgate on a very low budget.

Ferda commented ‘My Hero, is distinctly British. I made a promise to myself that I would always support British indie films with great scripts, and this was certainly the perfect fit.

With studio titles like the recent Miss You Already, Revolver and The Devil’s Double to his name, London born actor Mem Ferda is very much a Hollywood player. However, this modest British talent, hasn’t forgotten the importance of supporting low budget British Independent Filmmakers. Nowhere is this more evident than his latest lead role in the 23rd Raindance Film festival selected feature My Hero.

Here Mem delivers a stand-out performance as cockney, drug-dealing, gangster-florist, Simon Flowers. The film, which is based on a true story about a small time criminal who goes on the run with a neglected nine year old girl, was shot in costal towns Margate and Ramsgate on a very low budget.

Ferda commented "My Hero, is distinctly British. I made a promise to my [Continued ...]...

A new dramatic thriller is coming soon, by way of the Raindance Film Festival. The title is My Hero and the film stars actor Mem Ferda. Ferda, of Miss You Already and The Devil's Double fame, stars as Simon Flowers, a gangster-florist, in this one-ok-a-kind thriller. The film was shown September 25th, in the United Kingdom and a preview of the film is hosted here. The story for My Hero begins with an unlikely friendship. A drug dealer and a nine year old girl are forced to go on the run as malevolent forces give chase. My Hero is an independent British film. Shot in Margate of Kent, Ferda says of the setting and the script: "My Hero, is distinctly British. I made a promise to myself that I would always support British indie films with great scripts, and this was certainly the perfect fit. I hadn’t ever filmed...

With studio titles like the recent Miss You Already, Revolver and The Devil’s Double to his name, London born actor Mem Ferda is very much a Hollywood player. However, this modest British talent, hasn’t forgotten the importance of supporting low budget British Independent Filmmakers. Nowhere is this more evident than his latest lead role in the 23rd Raindance Film Festival selected feature My Hero. Here we see Mem deliver a stand-out, riveting performance as, cockney, drug-dealing, gangster-florist, Simon Flowers. The film which is based on a true story about a small time criminal who goes on the run with a neglected nine year old girl, was shot in costal towns [ Read More ]

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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.

A host of young talent is set to star in a new "quantum theory" thriller DxM announced at Cannes today.

The story follows a group of young bio-engineers who realize that quantum theory can be used to transfer motor skills from one brain to another. Believing this will lead to intellectual equality among humans, the group soon faces dark forces threatening to subvert the technology as an instrument for mass control.

Tom Payne (represented by Curtis Brown) leads the group as Jaxon, described as extremely intelligent and motivated, and the driving force behind the new technology. Tom also recently filmed the leads in The Physician and British indie feature Winter (aka Barking at Trees).

Melia Kreiling (represented in the UK by Piers Nimmo) plays Stella, a mystery to the rest of the group, a highly skilled bio engineer who specialises in everything. Part Greek and part American, Melia trained in...