“Defoe” is a feature length biography, charting the life and professional career of Jermain Defoe. The film tells Jermain’s life story to the present day, covering life after professional football and Jermain’s current career as coach at Tottenham Hotspurs Football club and his ambition to be a topflight Football manager.
Director: James Ross
Production Companies: Zig Zag Productions
Distribution: Kaleidoscope Film Distribution
When photographers Erin and Patrick are brought aboard the ship with their young son Lukas, they unleash a series of events that entwines their family with the ship’s dark past. As Erin and Patrick uncover the haunted layers that the vast ship contains, it becomes increasingly clear that there is only one way out for them – to go even deeper.
Director: Gary Shore
Production Companies: Imagination Design Works, White Horse, Rocket Science Industries
Distribution: Vertical Entertainment
The Madame Blanc Mysteries is a crime-drama television series produced by Saffron Cherry Productions for Channel 5 and Acorn TV written by Sally Lindsay and Sue Vincent. The series concerns a Cheshire antiques dealer solving an array of mysteries and deaths around the fictional village of Sainte Victoire in the South of France.
Director: Dermot Boyd
Production Companies: Saffron Cherry, Acorn TV
Distribution: Channel 5
Deep beneath the English Channel, a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurostar to Paris, taken 400 hostages at gunpoint and declared war on a government that has more than its own fair share of secrets to keep.
Director: Magnus Martens
Production Companies: Parabolic Pictures, Hero Squared
Distribution: Sky Cinema, Altitude Film Entertainment, Netflix
Hapless stars Tim Downie, who is also to appear in Amazon Prime’s Good Omens 2 as a journalist for the fourth biggest Jewish publisher in the UK, alongside Jeany Spark, Josh Howie and Mike Fenton Stevens.
Director: Gary Sinyor
Production Companies: Magnet Films
Distribution: Netflix, ViaPlay
This acclaimed debut film from BAFTA nominated writer/director Babak Anvari is a chilling psychological horror set during the final months of the Iran/Irak war. As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war torn Tehran of the late 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director: Babak Anvari
Production Company: Wigwam Films
Distribution: XYZ Films, Netflix, Vertical Entertainment
Psychological horror film focussed on a widowed mother Holly, who is tested to breaking point when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment, and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power.
Director: Ruth Paxton
Production Companies: Tea Shop Productions, Riverstone Pictures and REP Productions 8 Ltd
Distribution: HanWay Films
“The Good Ship Murder” is set aboard a luxury cruise liner touring everyone’s favourite Mediterranean holiday hotspots bubbling with intrigues, rivalries, glamour, money and class divides – but its new cabaret singer, Jack Grayling, soon discovers there are also more sinister elements below the surface
Director: Gordon Anderson
Production Companies: Clapperboard Studios
Distribution: Channel 5
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Director: Neasa Hardiman
Production Companies: Fantastic Films, Bright Pictures, Frakas Productions, Makar Productions
Distribution: Epic Pictures
West Point Cadet Edgar Allen Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into forgotten community where they find a township guarding a frightening secret that threatens to destroy them one by one.
Director: Christopher Hatton
Production Companies: Canoe Film
Distribution: Shudder