Warp Films is an
independent UK film production company. It is based in Sheffield &
London, UK with a further office in Melbourne, Australia
Warp Films was established by Warp Records founding partners Rob Mitchell & Steve Beckett. Warp Films was initially created with financial support from NESTA and had a remit to produce a number of short films.
After
the unfortunate death of Rob Mitchell in 2001, Beckett decided to
continue with Warp Films and enlisted the expertise of Sheffield friend
Mark Herbert (who had just produced the critically acclaimed first
series of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights for Channel 4) to run the company.
The first film Chris Morris' My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117 was shot in 2002. It won the award for Best Short Film at the 2003 BAFTA’s and became the first short film DVD single in the UK market.
Through
the star of My Wrongs, Paddy Considine, Herbert met director Shane
Meadows and asked them to generate an idea for a film. Herbert raised
the funding and the result was Warp Films debut feature, Dead Man's Shoes, directed by Shane Meadows in 2004.
Shot
in 22 days on a tight budget, and produced from Warp Films’ Sheffield
office (at that time a shed in Herbert's garden). It earned a BAFTA
nomination, was nominated for a record eight British Independent Film
Awards, won the Hitchcock D’or at the Dinard Festival, and won the
Southbank award for Best Film. It received strong critical acclaim and
has been hailed by some as a landmark in British cinema.
In 2005 Warp Films produced Rubber Johnny,
an experimental short film and 42-page book by director Chris
Cunningham, featuring music by Warp Records artist Aphex Twin, it
continues to shock and amaze audiences.
Warp Films biggest success to date came with Shane Meadows’ This Is England;
the story of Shaun, a boy who is adopted by a local skinhead gang after
his father is killed in the Falklands war. Since its release in early
2007 it has gained many awards including the Best Film at the British
Independent Films Awards, the Special Jury Prize at the Rome Film
Festival and Best British Film at the BAFTAs.
At the same ceremony Warp
Films received it’s third BAFTA as Paddy Considine’s directorial debut
Dog Altogether won the Best Short Film award.
Big Arty Productions Limited was incorporated on 30 Sep 1996 and is
located in South Yorkshire.
The company's status is active, with a team of 2 directors. Shane
Meadows is Big Arty Productions Limited's sole shareholder.
They have no known group companies.
Big Arty Productions Limited have
total assets of £470,173 plus total liabilities of £63,388. They owe
£62,331 to creditors and are due £4,992 from trade debtors. As of their
last financial statement, they had £465,181 in cash reserves.
Their net worth is £447,152,
and the value of their shareholders' interest is £447,152.
EM Media is an independent development agency working
predominantly in the creative digital sector. We raise finance from a
range of public and private sources to invest in creative digital
companies to achieve the long-term growth and maturity of the sector.
Alongside the creation of our high profile investment portfolio we
provide essential support services to our clients and play a key role in
brokering relationships for our clients with industry.
Since
2002, from our Nottingham base, EM Media has successfully pursued a
ground-breaking and progressive agenda; playing an essential role in the
transformation of the profile, reputation and impact of filmmaking and
content creation made locally for the global market.
EM Media’s
entrepreneurial approach and key interventions have directly driven
creative excellence, innovation within the cultural infrastructure and
across the supply chain achieving significant economic growth. To date
EM Media’s successes include:
• £179m economic benefit has been generated for the region’s economy
• 42 films have been co-financed by EM Media, from Anton Corbijn's Control and Shane Meadows' This Is England to Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur and Jim Loach's Oranges And Sunshine
• EM Media-backed feature films have achieved international acclaim and won prestigious accolades, including 5 BAFTAs, 3 BAFTA Scotland Awards, 10 BIFAs, 3 Michael Powell awards and over 30 international film festival awards
• 9 video games have been co-financed and released to the global market
• 45 active film projects in development
• 100 high quality short films have been completed launching the careers of the region’s brightest new filmmaking talent
EM
Media works in partnership with a range of organisations at a local,
regional and national level including Local Authorities and Creative England.
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