Companies in the Fund

Candour Productions – ---

Candour is a multi-award winning documentary production company based in Leeds. We pride ourselves in delivering high quality films that we care about for television and online distribution.

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Duck Soup – ---

Duck Soup was founded by Bekki Wray-Rogers, Libby Durdy and Jessica Holyland with an ambition to make fresh, authentic and entertaining TV dramas and feature films, championing the voices of underrepresented talent with unique and resonant stories to tell. Duck Soup is currently working on a slate of TV drama series and feature film developments with an eclectic and diverse range of talented humans. Prior to founding Duck Soup, Bekki, Libby and Jessica worked on some of the UK’s best television dramas including the multi-BAFTA winning This Is England and the International EMMY award winning Utopia series.

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Firecrest Films – ---

Firecrest Films is an award-winning factual TV production company based in Glasgow, with a reputation for high quality, high profile documentaries, features, formats and current affairs. Firecrest make singles and series for major broadcasters, including the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Its output includes consumer series Supershoppers for Channel 4 and groundbreaking BBC2 documentary, Inside The Murder Trial. In March 2018, Firecrest Films was named the fastest-growing independent TV company outside London by Broadcast magazine. In January 2019, Broadcast named Firecrest as one of the Best Places to Work in TV. This year, it made the highest-rating Panorama film for BBC1 and the highest-rating Dispatches film for Channel 4. Its BBC series Murder Case has had more than six million views. Firecrest Films has won more awards than any other Scottish indie.

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Five Mile Films – ---

Five Mile Films is a Bristol-based independent television company committed to making popular, high quality, innovative television with the best programme makers from all over Britain. It specialises in three areas of programming: innovative cross genre projects often mixing drama with documentary; popular factual multi-part series; and authored and observational factual output.

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Freedom Scripted – ---

Freedom Scripted is a Glasgow based indie with an exciting slate of drama projects. Freedom is working with some of the most exciting and diverse talent from the UK and further afield. Originality, freedom of expression and inclusion are at the core of our strategy.

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Paper Entertainment – ---

Paper Entertainment is a new London-based TV production company created in June 2020 by leading industry executive Julien Leroux. Paper Entertainment is one of the three production companies behind Apple TV's first international hit series Tehran. After 15 years working on many international series (Happily Married, Coroner, The Minister, Mirage, An Ordinary Woman, Engrenages, Witnesses, Osmosis, Ouro, Beyond The Walls, etc.), Julien Leroux launched Paper Entertainment to focus on developing, financing and producing TV content in partnership with talent and producers around the world.

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Parable – ---

Parable is a production studio and agency working across factual television, brand storytelling and immersive content. Founded in March 2017 by David Wise and Nicholas Minter-Green, with backing from Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund and The Economist, the company has won multiple awards for it virtual reality output, including Grenfell: Our Home for Channel 4 and Inside Childline for the NSPCC and has produced television documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and new specialist football SVOD platform, OTRO. In brands, the company has worked with Barclaycard, 02, SAP and Red Bull.

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Proper Content – ---

Proper Content is an award-winning production company producing high quality, distinctive and talked-about factual entertainment and documentary programming. Headed by David DeHaney, a highly respected filmmaker who has made ground-breaking documentaries around the globe. Proper has already gained a reputation for 'innovative television' for its series 'The School That Tried to End Racism', heralded as a 'must watch television landmark'. The company recently won the 2020 Grierson for best Single Documentary for 'Suicidal: In Our Own Words' for Channel 5.

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Rockerdale Studios – ---

Founded in 2017, Rockerdale Studios is one of the UK’s leading producers of scripted and unscripted comedy programming. Led by co-founders CEO Stu Richards and COO Michelle Singer, the writer-led production company specialises in making scripted, entertainment, features, and fact-ent formats with funny, diverse talent for linear and digital platforms. Rockerdale’s wide roster of successful productions includes ‘Brad Boyz’, ‘Bobby and Harriet Get Married’ and ‘Mission: Accessible’. Close Profile for Rockerdale Studios

Salamanda Media – ---

Set up in May 2020, Manchester-based Salamanda Media is run by award winning Executive Producer Sally Evans and acclaimed Series Producer and former BBC Studios Development Executive Amanda De Freitas. Between them, they have more than 30 years’ experience in the industry and a proven track record in developing and delivering high calibre shows for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The company specialises in factual entertainment, talent-led factual and formats.

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Spelthorne Community TV – ---

Spelthorne Community TV is owned by Andrew Newman and Sacha Baron Cohen, who have been responsible for some of the most critically lauded comedy of the last 20 years. Between them, they have been responsible for a string of BAFTA and Emmy-winning comedy and entertainment series, as well as Golden Globe winning movies.

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Spirit Studios – ---

Spirit's mission is to create ‘content with spirit’ that impacts audiences through entertainment and storytelling, in order to drive change for the better. Its ethos is ‘Funny and Feeling’, which informs its creative thinking. This ensures the company produces content that not only is highly entertaining, but also drives its mission. Spirit does it through its award-winning studios that produce: original TV and digital content, branded content, podcasts and social media campaigns. Its in-house audience development team also builds and operates its own digital brands and channels, as well as running its multi-award winning global mental health movement #IAMWHOLE.

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Studio Crook – ---

Studio Crook is a versatile regional independent production with its home in Brighton. Founded in 2021 by Matt Crook, creator and producer of successful formats The Real Hustle, Thief Trackers, and Honey I Bought the House, Studio Crook has worked with all the major UK broadcasters delivering in both the unscripted as well as the scripted space. We have partnered with many high-profile organisations including Comic Relief, Choose Love and War Child. We are passionate about developing new and diverse talent and champion alternative voices both in front of and behind the camera.

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Two Rivers Media – ---

Two Rivers Media is a new independent production company. Its aim is simple: to create compelling content in factual, factual entertainment, entertainment and scripted. Led by some of the best talent in the UK TV industry, it is one of the most ambitious new indies to launch onto the market in recent years. Two Rivers Media is proud to serve the Scottish, UK and international markets from its base in Glasgow.

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Warp Films – ---

Founded in 2000, Sheffield-based Warp Films has played a key role in British film and moved into TV with This is England 1986 (-90), The Last Panthers, and, most recently, The Virtues and Little Birds. Since founder, Mark Herbert, produced its first short film with backing from Film4 in 2002, the company has gone on to produce 26 feature films and eight TV series that have garnered 36 BAFTA and 56 BIFA nominations (winning 18 and 14 respectively), amongst many other awards both in the UK and internationally.

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Yeti Media – ---

Yeti is a multi-award-winning factual TV production company based in Cardiff. The company makes must-watch content at both ends of the television scale: from landmark specialist factual films through to high-volume returning series and formats. Yeti specialises in daytime, arts and history, formats, features and documentaries. In the last few years, its programmes have won two RTS Awards, a Celtic Media Award, a BAFTA, International Broadcast Award and it has been nominated for a Grierson. The company is proud to be rooted in Wales but passionate about content that resonates across the UK and beyond.

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