Director of Photography Julien Poupard, AFC is shooting L’ame Ideale (The Ideal Soul) for director Alice Vial. The Fantasy Comedy feature was co-written by Jean-Toussaint Bernard and is produced through Les Films entre and is centred around a man who dies and is tricked into thinking he is alive by an emotionally troubled medium.
Production Designer Beck Rainford and Editor Nicolas Chaudeurge are collaborating on Florid by BAFTA nominated director Billy Lumby on his first feature. Produced by BBC Films the film is set in the world of London's hostels and psychiatric wards, following a young man who struggles to balance his medication and drug use, with his musical ambitions and romantic desires.
Editor Shahnaz Dulaimy has cut new series Atomic for Director Shariff Korver and Pulse Films. Starring Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif, the series follows Two civilians as they get caught up in a cartel's uranium smuggling across North Africa. Facing a nuclear threat, they must decide whether to save themselves or stop the bomb delivery while evading agencies and traffickers.
Director of Photography Arseni Khachaturan and Production Designer Fiona Crombie have collaborated for McDonald's new 50th birthday campaign. Fenn O 'Meally and Smuggler have created a heartwarming spot that takes cue from the iconic designs through the ages as it celebrates the joy that children have enjoyed walking through the golden arches, right up to the modern day.
Congratulations to our Artists nominated at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2024. Girl by Director Adura Onashile, featuring Cinematography by Tasha Back is nominated for Best Feature and Best Director in the Fiction category, Out of Darkness by Director Andrew Cumming with Cinematography by Ben Fordesman is nominated for Best Feature, Best Actor for Kit Young and Best Actress for Safia Oakley-Green. Also nominated is Baby Reindeer with Cinematography by Krzysztof Trojnar for Best Actor and Best Writer for Richard Gadd, The Crown featuring Cinematography by Rasmus Videbaek and Editing by Adam Biskupski in the Best Actor category for Khalid Abdalla and The Eternal Daughter by Joanna Hogg with Editing by Helle Le Fevre for Best Actress, Tilda Swinton.
Production Designer Marco Puig and Costume Designer Ameena Kara Callender have collaborated for the new IPhone campaign for Apple. Directed by Aoife McArdle through Smuggler, the spot is a hollywood worthy action sequence showing the powerful new slow motion capability of its cameras.
Hair and Make up Designer Lisa Mustafa is working on Sacrifice by Director Romain Gavras through Iconoclast Films. The film centres around the Greek Mythology tales that Gavras was raised on and his fondness of satire, with Succession writer Will Arbery co-penning the script. Whilst plot details are under wraps, the longline for the film is that a high end charity gala is raided by a violent group of radicals on a mystical quest to fulfil a prophecy. The heavyweight cast includes Anya Taylor Joy, Brendan Fraser, Chris Evans and Salma Hayek.
Director of Photography Jess Hall, ASC, BSC is working on the new film in the Fantastic 4 franchise. Fantastic Four: First Steps is directed by Matt Shakman for Marvel, Walt Disney Studios and is a reboot of the beloved superhero family. Out in 2025 the cast includes Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Editor Jacob Secher Shulsinger is working on Crime 101 with director Bart Leyton and Amazon MGM Studios. The film is based on a short story by Don Winslow and whilst plot details remain confidential, the story follows high level jewell thefts that take place up and down the pacific coast that authorities link to Colombian cartels. The film will star Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth and Barry Keoghan.
Production Designer Luke Moran-Morris is working on Straight Circle with Oscar Hudson and Pulse Films. The mind bending horror/thriller follows two enemy soldiers stationed on a lonely desert border as a bizarre and disorienting nightmare gradually takes hold of them and they lose track of which side of the border they are on.