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Executive Summary

Canary – 90 Minute Feature Film

“The miners ‘Of Mice and Men’ 1984”

Synopsis: Joseph Cole and Ernest Mills share a peaceful life working in a small English mining village. Joe works tirelessly to care for Ernie whose mental state has never aged past that of a 12-year-old. When Margaret Thatcher announces changes to close the mines, Joe must choose between helping the community and Ernie’s welfare while Ernie battles to understand the changes surrounding him. One things for sure, their lives will never be the same.

Title/Year:                          CANARY (2017)
Genre:                                  Period Drama
Budget:                                £250,000.00
Format:                                HD 4K colour
Language:                           English
Current Status:                 Pre-production
Filming Locations:           Northern England, UK
Filming Start:                     June 2017

Cast (Interested):            Andy Gathergood (Journey’s End, 2018), Theo Barklem-Biggs (Kingsman, 2014), Mark Anthony Brighton (Doctor Strange, 2016), Aimee Kelly (Wolfblood)

IMDB:                          http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6332366/?ref_=nm_knf_i2
           
Facebook:                   https://www.facebook.com/Canaryfeaturefilm/
Twitter:                              https://twitter.com/TheMinesFilm
Website:                     https://canary-film.com/

Cast

Andy Gathergood (Journey’s End, 2018)
Andy Gathergood is an English actor born in Farnborough, Kent on January 15th 1974. He trained at ALRA(Academy of Live and Recorded Arts) in London.
His film work includes Journey’s End directed by Saul Dibb; The Death of Stalin directed by Armando Iannucci; Risen directed by Kevin Reynolds; Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood; The Three Musketeers, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson; Lecture 21, directed by Alessandro Baricco.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2562176/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

Theo Barklem-Biggs (Kingsman: The Secret Service, 2014)

Theo Barklem-Biggs was born in 1990 in Westminster, London, England as Theodore Thaddeus Barklem-Biggs. He is an actor and writer, known for Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) and samuel-613 (2015).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3174795/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

 

Mark Anthony Brighton (Doctor Strange, 2016)

Mark Anthony Brighton is a London born actor. Although acting since a teenager in youth theatre, he then went on to train at the poor school, Kings cross, graduating in 2000. Since then, he has gone on to work steadily with such names including Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mickelson Chewitel Ejiofor, Elijah Woods, Tom Courtenay, Bill Nighy and many other.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1347940/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

 Amiee Kelly (Wolf Blood)

Aimee made her screen debut aged 16 playing the lead in feature film SKET.  The film premiered as part of the 55th BFI London Film Festival. For her performance, Aimee was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the Awards. On television, Aimee led the cast in the first and second series of fantasy drama WOLFBLOOD for CBBC. For her performance as Maddy Smith, Aimee was nominated for the award for best performer at the 2013 Children’s BAFTAs.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4215485/

 

Executive Producers

Peter Rudge

Charter House Films and Grand Independent
Producer

Peter is co-founder of Grand Independent, a film production company with a back catalogue of 7 feature films and 2 feature documentaries. It’s latest feature, The Confusion of Tongues, is currently in post-production and will premiere in 2017.

A  25 year veteran of the industry Peter began as a reader for the major US studios including Universal and Columbia Tri-Star at the end of the 1980’s and early 1990’s.

His original screenplay Witch Hunt sold to Universal Pictures and he co-wrote the adaptation of the Luke Rhinehart novel The Diceman for Paramount.

In 1995 he was shortlisted for the Allied Domeq Playwright of the Year for his stage play, The Elephant.

Peter was Associate Producer on the British cult classic film Soulboy, starring Martin Compston, Alfie Allen and Nicola Burley. His films have screened at festivals around the world including the Melbourne, Berlin and Raindance International Film festivals.

He works closely with young talent in the region, Executive Producing a number of debut feature films by new directors and writers.

He is a longstanding member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and has served on the Council of the Academy and the Learning and Events Committee. He is also a BAFTA Mentor, working with young filmmakers at the start of their careers.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and plays an active role in its education and mentoring work.

He is also founder and Chair of Platform, the Moving Image Cluster for Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire, supporting companies in the film, television, games and animation industries to grow and develop.

Stephen Saunders

Managing Director of ASA Productions (UK)
Film and TV Producer/Director.

I started in the film industry some 45 years ago at the Shell Film Unit where I trained and developed my skills in post-production. Upon leaving and starting as a freelancer I worked in the cutting rooms on some major films, one being James Bond ‘Live and Let Die’.  I then continued to work with some highly respected film directors – Richard Marquand known for Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), Jagged Edge (1985) and Eye of the Needle (1985).

Following on from this I started within the television industry working as an editor at London Weekend Television and Thames Television, as well as working as a freelancer for the BBC. I edited many documentaries for Channel 4 when it was first launched. During my freelance period I have edited numerous dramas and comedy series for the BBC, including ‘A Different Drummer’ and the TV comedy ‘Sykes’ starring the writer comedian Eric Sykes.  At HTV I worked on a feature length drama – ‘The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb’, and TV series ‘Return to Treasure Island’ starring Brain Blessed.

Follow my successes in post-production I started my own editing facility editing for most of the major TV companies.

While running ASA my directing skills have won me numerous awards. In 2011 I won a gold award at the World Media Fest in Hamburg for an educational programme ‘Art & Design’ produced for BBC learning. That same year my programme ‘Lancaster at War’ for the History Channel won silver at the same venue. I have was nominated for a BAFTA for an educational series for Channel 4 entitled ‘Energy From Nature’ – a three part series giving an insight to a young audience of how nature can supply us with power from natural resources.

During my extensive career in the industry I have gained substantial knowledge and experience, and I have seen many changes. I have adapted to the new technologies, tailoring my company’s programmes to the new and challenging audiences of today.

I lecture at two major media universities, Ravensbourne College in London and Staffordshire University, where I lecture on production content, production techniques and research, helping students to develop their story making abilities in both fictional and factual programming.

Since ASA’s first production hit the TV screens in 2005, a four part documentary series ‘Fighting The Blue’, which sold to UKTV (and is still showing today not only on UKTV, but across the rest of Europe) we have gained a significant position in the television market and have continued to flourish in that sector of the business.

At our initial outset, the main business activities were focused on television production, to produce programmes that where not only entertaining, but educational. We logically moved into DVD sales with our productions and this has proved a valuable source of income, although modest compared to some companies, we feel that the continued sales of all our programmes speaks for themself. To date our first programme ‘Fighting The Blue’ has sold over 2,000 copies, while our latest production ‘The Long March to Freedom’ is about to achieve sales of over 3,500 copies since its first showing in 2012.

At present ASA is producing two documentaries, which are in their development phase. One has been partly commissioned by the French TV channel RMC Découverte and we are in negotiations with Channel 4 to raise the budget short fall.  The second we are producing with our own money with sales guaranteed in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand.

Further Investment

Linda Louise Duan

Valley Moon Consultant Ltd
Executive Consultant

Valley Moon Consultant Ltd is a London based consultancy aiming to link Chinese and European Film and Animation companies together through partnerships, collaboration and co-production.

With Valley Moon we are collaborating with potential investment from Chinese companies who have promised to invest 50% of the required funding once we have obtained the initial 50%. They believe this film will have a huge market for VOD, DVD and other streaming services within East Asia making this film hugely profitable.