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  Scott Free Productions

  Scott Free Productions was formed in 1995 and is the film and television production vehicle of esteemed film director Ridley Scott. The company is responsible for some of the most successful films ever made – including Top Gun, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Alien, American Gangster, Thelma and Louise and Black Hawk Down. Scott Free films have received over 60 Academy Award® nominations.

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  Killer Films

  ​Killer Films is a New York City-based independent film production company. The company has produced a number of the most acclaimed American independent films over the past two decades including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Kids, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, I Shot Andy Warhol, Swoon, I'm Not There (Academy Award nominated), Kill Your Darlings, Still Alice (Academy Award winner) and Carol (nominated for six Academy Awards).

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  21 Laps Entertainment

  21 Laps Entertainment is an American film and television production company run by director-producer Shawn Levy. The company is best known as the creators of Stranger Things, and exclusively distributes content through a partnership with Netflix.

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  Simon West Productions

  Simon West started his career when he joined the BBC Film Department aged 18 as an assistant film editor. After four years of working on numerous prestigious BBC dramas, documentaries and current affairs programs West left to direct music videos and TV commercials gaining many international industry awards. His commercial work lead to work in the US where several of his award winning “Superbowl Spots” caught the attention of the Hollywood Studios. West’s first film “CON AIR” starring Nicholas Cage was quickly followed by “THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER” starring John Travolta and then “LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER” starring Angelina Jolie. West is the only live action director ever whose first three 3 films all grossed over $100m at the US box office.

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  Perfect World Pictures

  Perfect World Pictures (PWPIC) is an Chinese entertainment company. Founded in 2008 and based in China, it engages in the production, distribution and marketing of film and television content, content related advertising, merchandising business, talent management business as well as investment. At the start of 2016, Perfect World announced a long term co-financing deal with Universal Pictures, which represents the first time a Chinese company has directly invested in a multi-year slate deal with a major U.S. studio.

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  Fremantle

  Fremantle is a world leader in creating, producing and distributing content. They are an independent group of talents, studios and producers, content makers, creative incubators, culture shapers and game changers operating in 31 countries across the world.

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  Knight Hall Agency

  The Rod Hall Agency was formed in May 1997 and renamed as Knight Hall Agency in May 2011 to represent playwrights and screenwriters, writers who also direct, directors and stage and screen rights in selected novels. We wanted the company to reflect the best aspects of both small and large agencies. So, we have a dedicated office in Shoreditch, and maintain a network of contacts worldwide – but also aim for the personal touch. We keep our business highly specialised, our client base small but perfectly formed, and staff numbers to a minimum so as to provide maximum continuity in all our dealings.

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  Goalpost Pictures

  Goalpost Pictures are among Australia’s leading and award winning independent producers. Founding partners Rosemary Blight, Kylie du Fresne, Ben Grant and Cass O’Connor have worked together as a team for more than 15 years.

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  Schemers Entertainment

  Schemers Entertainment is a full-service production and management company founded by producer/manager Gavin Dorman. Schemers represents a diverse slate of writer, director, and producer clients whose award-winning works have appeared at numerous film festivals - including Sundance, TIFF, and SXSW - and have been financed, produced, and/or distributed by some of the biggest names in Hollywood including Blumhouse, Netflix, and Hulu.

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  Sui Generis Pictures

  Ross Katz, the founder of Sui Generis Pictures is a Producer, Content Creator and Filmmaker. As a Producer, he has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for producing In the Bedroom and Lost in Translation, winning a Golden Globe for the latter. In 2009, Katz expanded into writing and directing with HBO Films Taking Chance, starring Kevin Bacon. He was the recipient of the DGA and WGA Awards, and Kevin Bacon won the Golden Globe for that film. After producing 2019’s My Dinner With Hervé for HBO, Katz spent a year as Head of Production and Development for SK Global. Ross’s first job in the movie business was as a grip on Reservoir Dogs. In addition to Quentin Tarantino, he was lucky enough to have worked with Ang Lee, Oliver Stone, and Sydney Pollack, before starting his own filmmaking journey. He is a proud member of the Motion Picture Academy, the DGA, PGA, and WGA.

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  Cinelou Films

  Cinelou Films is a full-service film development, financing and production company based in Los Angeles, CA. Cinelou’s emphasis is on producing prestigious, critically acclaimed movies driven by auteur directors and powerful, moving performances. As co-CEOs of Cinelou, Courtney Solomon and Mark Canton are able to tap into their wealth of resources from over thirty years experience in the film industry to bring relatable, entertaining and high caliber scripts to life. The first film under this joint venture, Cake, starring Jennifer Aniston, Sam Worthington and Anna Kendrick, garnered Golden Globes, SAG and Critic’s Choice nominations, further proving that Solomon and Canton have the vision, drive and relationships necessary to bring critical and commercial success to Cinelou’s slate of films.

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  Bellevue Productions

  Bellevue Productions is a literary management and production company, focused on finding new voices and working with them to realize their ambitions within the world of film and television.

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  Julia Tyrrell Management

  Julia Tyrrell Management is a literary agency whose clients are writers and writer/directors for film, television, radio and theatre. Their boutique list offers a range of experience from established award-winning talent to exciting emerging voices.

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  Grade A Entertainment

  Andy Cohen is the President of Grade A Entertainment, a production and management company producing film, television and theatre and representing writers, directors and authors. Before founding Grade A, Andy spent a number of years as both an executive and a producer. In all, Andy has been involved in the development, sale and/or production of over 80 film projects, 30 television movies and 30 series. He currently has an eclectic slate of projects set up at the studios, networks and independent financiers.

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  Reliance Entertainment

  Founded in Mumbai in 2005, Reliance Entertainment is the wholly owned, flagship media arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. It has significant influence in the filmed entertainment industry, particularly within production, distribution and exhibition. Reliance Entertainment has built an impressive film production slate in Hindi, English and other languages, which it markets and distributes globally. Following its association with IM global, the company now benefits from an international sales team, excellent reputation and global presence.

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  Tribeca Productions

  Tribeca Productions is a film and television production company co-founded in 1989 by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, originally named Tribeca Productions. It's the entity behind the annual Tribeca Film Festival. The company later became Tribeca Enterprises, encompassing various media and entertainment ventures.

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  Stone Village Productions

  Founded in 1998, Stone Village Productions, Inc. (“SVP”) is an independent, privately owned media finance and production company led by Producer and 20 year industry veteran Scott Steindorff. The company specializes in the production of commercial, studio quality feature film content, primarily based on best selling novels, and intended for a global audience. SVP has a premium portfolio of commercial intellectual property and projects in development with A-level talent involved. Drawing on its past experience to attract A-level stars to its content, SVP populates its films with stars, both veteran and emerging.

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  Shoreline Entertainment

  Established in 1992, Shoreline Entertainment is one of the longest running and most prolific film sales companies in the industry. Shoreline is an eminent participant at more than 15 major media markets and film festivals each year. Our international presence cultivates strong relationships with over a thousand content distributors, broadcasters, and film festival programmers worldwide. With over 300 films in the catalogue, our lineup includes every genre and a diverse collection of languages and cultures. Shoreline has represented a significant number of award-winning titles including films that have premiered at Berlinale, Rotterdam, Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, Tribeca, and many more, as well as films that have been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards and Golden Globes.

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  Lit Entertainment Group

  Adam Kolbrenner’s Lit Entertainment Group is a newly launched literary management and production company based in Beverly Hills, CA. Previously, Kolbrenner co-founded Madhouse Entertainment. Lit Entertainment Group clients include Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken (10 Cloverfield Lane), Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis (CBS Films’ Five Feet Apart), Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners, Raised by Wolves), David Guggenheim (Safe House, Designated Survivor), Matt Lieberman (Christmas Chronicles, Free Guy, Addams Family and Playing with Fire), Justin Marks (Disney’s Jungle Book, Top Gun 2 and Starz’s Counterpart), Sascha Penn (Creed 2), and Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel and writer/director of The Slows) among many others.

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  Broken Road Productions

  Broken Road Productions was started by Todd Garner, a veteran producer and Hollywood creative executive with a unique gift for creating and nurturing mainstream, commercial motion pictures. In various capacities throughout his career, Garner has developed, overseen, executive produced or produced well over 170 movies, many of them major hits for their respective studios. Formerly a founding partner of Revolution Studios and before that co-head of production at Walt Disney Studios, Garner founded Broken Road Productions in summer 2005. In the last twelve years, Broken Road has produced fifteen movies and counting.

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  Curzon

  Curzon is a BAFTA award winning integrated film company incorporating Distribution, Cinema, Home cinema and Production. Curzon owns, operates and programmes 20 venues, encompassing 42 screens across the UK, specialising in curated, quality international and British cinema, as well as Q&As, events and special performances. Curzon has won the best foreign language Oscar and BAFTA for six years running and in the last ten years, five of its films have won the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. Curzon releases films by many of the world’s greatest filmmakers and its pedigree is second to none.

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  American High

  Founded in 2017 by Jeremy Garelick (The Wedding Ringer, The Hangover, The Break-Up, The Binge), American High is a full service production company that specializes in heartfelt teen comedies. Our mission: do for this generation what John Hughes did for the audiences of the 1980’s. Embrace the R-rated reality of high school and tell stories from eclectic characters from diverse backgrounds as they navigate the most formative (and often most hilarious) years of their lives.

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  Underground Films

  Trevor founded Underground in 2001 after a brief stint as an assistant at Endeavor. He was named to the Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen Top 35 Under 35 list and has produced over a dozen films including REMEMBER ME, LICENSE TO WED and ALL ABOUT STEVE. Trevor is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication.

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  Hurricane Films

  For over a decade Hurricane Films have been telling great stories – fact and fiction – for both the big and small screen. The Company is owned and run by Solon Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter, with each partner bringing a wealth of experience from their highly successful individual careers.

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  Green Door Pictures

  Green Door Pictures was founded by Idris Elba in 2013 to champion diversity of thought. We work with new, emerging and established talent to produce content that is innovative, entertaining and thought-provoking whilst appealing to a broad audience. We have a slate of scripted and non-scripted projects across film, television, podcasts and digital.

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  Sid Gentle Films

  Sid Gentle Films Ltd. was founded in 2013 to develop and produce innovative, original and ambitious television drama and feature films. We work with leading writing, directing and on-screen talent from both the U.K. and abroad.

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  Benaroya Pictures

  Benaroya Pictures was founded in 2006 by CEO Michael Benaroya to develop, finance, and produce major motion pictures across a variety of genres and platforms. Along with an active in-house development wing, Benaroya Pictures also packages and invests in outside projects, allowing the company to work with the A-list talent of today while also grooming the up-and-coming filmmakers of tomorrow. With the ability to develop and finance feature films, Benaroya Pictures views each project as an intellectual property that can be adapted for various formats beyond the silver screen.

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  Davis Entertainment

  Davis Entertainment is an American film and television production company, founded by John Davis in 1984. Davis's three divisions–feature film, independent film, and television–develop and produce film and television projects for the major studios, independent distributors, networks and cable broadcasters. The company itself has enjoyed a long-standing first-look production deal at 20th Century Studios, although it also produces projects for all studios and mini-majors.

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  Signature Entertainment

  Signature Entertainment was founded in 2011 by Marc Goldberg and has become one of the leading distribution companies in the UK, with over 700 titles released. In 2018 the company’s production arm, Signature Films was founded with an aim to focus on storytellers, filmmakers and properties that emphasize both creativity and commercial potential. With a team of avid film lovers on board, the Signature Films brings expertise in production, distribution, finance, and working with A-list talent and already boasts a diverse slate of films, such as The Hatton Garden Job (starring Larry Lamb, Matthew Goode and Stephen Moyer) and Final Score (starring Dave Bautista and Pierce Brosnan).

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  MadRiver Pictures

  MadRiver Pictures is a leading production, finance, and international sales company founded by industry veteran Marc Butan. Since the company’s launch in 2015, the experienced team at MadRiver Pictures has leveraged its relationships, creative vision, and distribution and finance expertise to establish MadRiver as a top destination for filmmakers and talent. With a distinctive ability to develop, finance, and produce, MadRiver works in both the independent and studio spaces, supporting director-driven projects across the specialty and commercial markets. In 2019, MadRiver entered the television development and production space as well, with projects at multiple networks.

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  Bully Pictures

  Bully Pictures is a full service production company specializing in broadcast commercial spots, rich, interactive media, web viral films, and branded film, video, digital, and design content for a variety of different venues. We also take projects entirely through finish with Bully Brothers Post and a host of other post partners.

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  Tempo Productions

  Tempo Productions is a film production company founded by Piers Tempest and Jo Bamford. The company operates from Yorkshire and London and produces independent film and media, with commercial appeal for audiences worldwide. The company invests in strategic media assets where clear synergies to the core of our group exist.

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  Affirm Films

  AFFIRM Films, the industry leader in Faith-based films, is a division of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA), a Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) company. Dedicated to producing, acquiring, marketing and distributing films which inspire, uplift, and entertain audiences for over a decade. Sony Pictures launched AFFIRM Films in 2007 to meet the increasing demands from audiences looking for quality, mainstream films that reflect their spiritual beliefs and values

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  Gemma Hirst Associates

  Literary Media, Film & TV Agency. GHA represents writers, directors, showrunners, producers and script editors working on projects ranging from feature films, original and returning television drama series, comedy, animation, radio drama and theatre. We also handle film and television rights to books.

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  Salon Pictures

  Salon is a dynamic, modern day, multi-disciplinary Originator and Producer of Feature Film, Documentary, TV and Branded Content. Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated producers Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter founded Salon in 2013. With a focus on exceptional material, Salon is committed to a close creative relationship with talent, to develop and produce a portfolio of intelligent and unique films & documentaries, and manage this library in the marketplace.

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  1821 Pictures

  1821 Pictures is a media company based in Los Angeles with divisions in Film, Television, Publishing (Comics/Kids), & Music. Our film division is currently producing the upcoming films Machete Kills, While We Were Here (Kate Bosworth), and Jane Got a Gun with Natalie Portman. Along with past titles as The Invention of Lying, Swing Vote, Veronika Decides to Die, The Box and With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story. Our publishing side is both a NY Times Best Seller and Guinness World Record holder with our futuristic graphic novel Romeo & Juliet: The War, which was created with comic book legend Stan Lee. We have also launched a new publishing imprint devoted to kids under the age of 10 called Stan Lee's Kids Universe.

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  The Solution Entertainment Group

  The Solution Entertainment Group is a multi-faceted, full service international sales and financing company which offers filmmakers access to development funding, production funding, production and post-production services as well as international distribution.

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  Sheil Land Associates

  Sheil Land Associates is a long-established literary, theatrical and film agency dating back to 1962. They have eleven staff including six agents and their assistants, all of whom are strongly supported by friendly and experienced finance and administrative staff, making them one of the top five literary agencies in the UK.

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