Fifth Column Films
Fifth Column Films is a UK film production company best known for feature documentaries Way of the Morris and TEMPEST.{{cite news | url = https://www.imdb.com/company/co0199943/ | title = IMDB page for Fifth Column Films | accessdate = 2015-01-12}}
Early films
Established in 2006, their first project was fiction drama The Boat People, starring Raquel Cassidy and Nabil Elouahabi. They proceeded to make the UK Film Council funded short film Domestics in 2008, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.{{cite news | url = https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/films/2008/ukfc-completion-fund-shorts | title = Edinburgh Film Festival listing | accessdate = 2015-01-12}} The same year, their microfilm Slaphappy, directed by Tim Plester won best film at the Belfast Film Festival{{cite news | url = http://www.15secondfilmfestival.com/films-2008/slaphappy/ | title = 15 Second Film Festival listing | accessdate = 2015-01-12 | archive-date = 2017-07-27 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170727172451/http://www.15secondfilmfestival.com/films-2008/slaphappy/ | url-status = dead }} in the 15 second category.
Feature documentaries
In 2011, they had their first major breakthrough with Way of the Morris, a feature documentary by Tim Plester and Rob Curry, about Tim's Morris Dancing village in Oxfordshire. The film premiered at SXSW in 2011,{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/culture/filmblog/2011/mar/13/sxsw-2011-tim-plester-the-way-of-the-morris | title = Guardian article | accessdate = 2015-01-12}} before being released in UK cinemas that summer. The following year, they followed it up with TEMPEST, a feature documentary directed by Rob Curry and Anthony Fletcher.{{cite news | url = http://www.screendaily.com/fifth-column-to-give-theatrical-release-in-uk-to-tempest-docudrama/5045409.article | title = Screen Daily release notice | accessdate = 2015-01-12}} The company self-distributed both films in UK cinemas,{{cite news | url = http://www.launchingfilms.com/release-schedule?distributor=297&sort=dist | title = Film Distributors Association listings | accessdate = 2015-01-12}} an unusual achievement for a small independent production company.{{cite news | url = https://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/09/director-of-way-of-the-morris-speaks-to-us-about-their-unique-distribution-model/ | title = Shooting People article on distribution | accessdate = 2015-01-12}}
Future work
The company is currently in production on a feature documentary about folk singer Shirley Collins, and a fiction short, Truck, which has been commissioned by Creative England and the BFI.{{citation needed|reason=No searchable information found|date=January 2015}}.
Productions
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Film | Year | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Boat People | 2007 | Rob Curry | Fiction feature |
| Domestics | 2008 | Rob Curry | Short film |
| Slaphappy | 2008 | Tim Plester | Short film |
| End of the Line | 2009 | Rob Curry | Short film |
| Forbidden | 2009 | Rob Curry | Short film |
| The Living End | 2009 | Rob Curry | Short film |
| Way of the Morris | 2011 | Tim Plester, Rob Curry | Feature documentary |
| TEMPEST | 2012 | Anthony Fletcher, Rob Curry | Feature documentary |
| Here We'm Be Together | 2014 | Tim Plester, Rob Curry | Short film |
| The Ballad of Shirley Collins | 2016 | Tim Plester, Rob Curry | Feature documentary |
References
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External links
- [http://www.fifthcolumn.org.uk Fifth Column Films website]
- [http://www.fifthcolumn.org.uk Boat People official website]
- [http://www.fifthcolumn.org.uk Way of the Morris official website]
- [http://www.fifthcolumn.org.uk TEMPEST official website]
- [http://www.fifthcolumn.org.uk Ballad of Shirley Collins official website]
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