Freddie Laker was once one of the most famous faces on either side of the Atlantic.
The launch of Skytrain in 1977 democratised air travel providing cheap airfares to the US for the first time. Five years later he was bankrupt.

The destruction of Freddie Laker is a powerful, dramatic and important story.

This feature film follows the dramatic legal and personal battles fought by Freddie with his lawyer Bob Beckman, on both sides of the Atlantic. In the end, when it looked like Freddie was about to win, it took Maggie Thatcher, eager not to jeopardise the privatisation of her national airline, putting pressure on the ‘special relationship’ with President Reagan, to finally sink Laker. For the first time in American legal history, a President intervened in a Grand Jury case. He had the Jury dismissed and the case collapsed.

FLY ME will be full of personal and public drama, corporate intrigue, involving banks, airlines, epic legal battles and political manipulation. But this isn’t a story about one man’s rise and fall or a biopic about how a larger than life character bit off more than he could chew. What makes the story of his destruction compelling and relevant is that the combined forces of big business which brought him down are still in place today, and still directly affecting how we live our lives.

If you enjoyed CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR you’ll enjoy FLY ME.

Bite Club (Feature – Horror/Comedy)

Tag Line - All the underworld needs is more bloodsuckers!

Nicky Picolo works as a doorman and minder for shifty strip club operator Billy Turquoise. Desperate to be his own boss, he sees his opportunity in an old abandoned warehouse, where he hopes to set up his own club.

Nick soon finds that there are some odd facets to this old building.  His first visit is from the police, who are investigating a spate of recent murders in the area. All the victims have had the blood completely drained from their bodies.

Nick is then visited by ‘The Hungarian’ who issues him a sinister warning and clearly wants him out of the building. Putting the pieces together, it all points in one direction. The Hungarian and his crew are all vampires and have been killing off junkies to replenish their blood supplies, and the warehouse just happens to be their home! After all, they’ve been there for hundreds of years! .

Nick has a serious vampire problem. Vampires or no vampires, the Hungarian and his goons need to be taught a lesson, or at least removed from the premises.

With the help of a motley assortment of villains, including the sexually deviant hitman Murray, Lebanese gangsters, the cool but lethal Chop Chop boys, silky smooth mediator and enforcer Brooklyn Tony and the feared Sicilian patriarch Frankie The Fat, Nick finally brings the boys to a blood-curdling showdown with their vampire antagonists….

The Knife That Killed Me is a story about coming of age, the laws of the playground, and the potential impact of peer pressure and bullying.

Paul is an outsider at school who finds himself torn between slowly making friends with a relatively uncool crowd and keeping in with the bullies who could so easily make his life a misery – the safest part of the hurricane being the eye, or so he thinks. But when inter-school feuds spiral into ever increasing violence, the smallest of decisions can lead to tragic consequences. Set in a world of peer pressure where every weakness is exploited and where fear corrupts, The Knife That Killed Me will be a fast paced, thrilling, genre-shifting film about one boy’s attempt to grow up in modern teenage Britain. Caught between love and idealism, rival gangs and survival, his life is suddenly cut short. We follow his attempts to comprehend how a series of commonplace events have led him inexorably to such a tragic and violent death. Paul is an uncomfortable victim. He faces his adversity with the wit and ingenuity of a rebel spirit. He dreams and tells stories. He has no alternative now. He is locked away in a grey, cold hell where he can’t harm himself, or anyone else, ever again. He has time to think, to remember, and to replay the images and memories that are now seared into his brain. Some blur, some recur. The worst stay in sharp focus. Sometimes he lies to us. Sometimes he makes things up and sometimes he tells us the truth. A truth that cuts and hurts. At times deeply moving, frightening and humorous, our narrator leads us through a visual world that is nightmarish, compelling, and always highly original. The visuals will be strong and stylised, echoing the first person narrative of Paul’s story. It is a story told to us by a boy driven by circumstance towards a hell of his own making. The visuals will synthesise Paul’s mundane external world with the nightmarish magic real aesthetic that characterises his desperate predicament. An increasing sense of isolation fuels the story.

We fly above Paul’s grey confinement and discover a mind obsessed with images and memories that haunt him. We share Paul’s restless thought process, follow his wandering mind through time, and revisit the key scenes that have shattered his life. Images flash: the school, the field, his home, his mates, the fight. Sometimes the moves get reordered, things distort, change colour, take on new hues. But one thing never alters. The relentless passage of the knife, an irreversible motion that started its journey there... and that finishes, always finishes, here... back with the knife. The knife that killed me.

VIOLET (52 x 11 mins)

Violet is not your average  8 year old girl…she is an inventor and mechanical genius.  Her playground and laboratory is right in her backyard – her father’s Junkyard. Targeted at Boys and Girls 5 to 8 years old but with content that will be friendly for younger children. A 2D/3D mixed animated series.

A co-production between Keyframe Entertainment (Canada) and Kavaleer Animation (Ireland). Currently in development with CBC (Canada).Executive Producers Paula Hart and Jennifer Monier-Williams.

FIREBALL (26 x 24 mins)

A trans-global car race run across a twisted version of our world. Wacky Races meets Death Race 2000. Part reality TV, part adult comedy and all animation, and based on the comic created by Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz, Tank Girl, Monkey -Journey to the West). Itwill literally explode off the screen! Producers Tom Astor and Rupert Harvey.

LAWNMOWER MAN – THE TV SERIES (26 x 44 mins)

Based on a short story by Stephen King, in 1992, the film was the first to harness live action and digital effects. The series will carry that flame forward. Part action-adventure, part science-fiction and with a unique relationship at it centre, the series will challenge our concept of reality. Pilot script by David Titcher (Around The World in 80 days).