Slingshot

Slingshot is an all-digital, British film company that is dedicated to making good films, differently. Headed by Arvind Ethan David, Slingshot is backed by industry specialist media investors including Arts Alliance.

Slingshot has so far co-financed and produced five films, SUGARHOUSE, FRENCH FILM, FAINTHEART, TORMENTED and THE INFIDEL (currently in post-production). It has multi-picture co-development and co-financing deals with BBC Films and Screen West Midlands, and an output deal with leading European distributor and international sales company, Pathé who, alongside Warner Bros., released Slingshot’s latest film TORMENTED across the UK in May 2009.

In 2008, Slingshot was selected as the only film business on Mediatech’s list of “the 100 European companies among those most likely to change the mediatech world”.

www.slingshot-studios.com

Met Film

Met Film Production is dedicated to the development and production of innovative, commercially-driven feature films which will attract audiences both nationally and internationally. Formed in 2007 with the successful transition of the entire team behind feature film production company APT Films, producers of the award-winning feature documentary Deep Water, the highly acclaimed Wondrous Oblivion, and the Academy Award nominated film Solomon & Gaenor.

In the last year we have made three films; Heavy Load, a feature documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell which was released in October 2008 and has already screened at the SXSW festival and won the Audience Award at Britdoc. Romantic comedy, French Film, starring Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff and Eric Cantona and Little Ashes, a Lorca-Dali biopic, starring Robert Pattinson, were both released in May 2009. Met Film also has a policy of making short films as part of the development process with talent and our latest short film, September, written and directed by Esther May Campbell won a BAFTA for Best Short Film.

www.metfilmproduction.co.uk