BREAK WRITER/DIRECTOR MICHAEL ELKIN TO SMA
After being delayed by Convid-19 Break, written and directed by Michael is to have the UK’s first ever red carpet drive-in premiere at the Brent Cross Centre in North London on July 22 and a more conventional gala premiere at The Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, August 19. Film stars Sam Gittins, Jamie Foreman, David […]
THICKER THAN WATER COMPOSER JOACIM STARANDER JOINS SMA CREW
Swedish composer Joacim Starander is one of his country’s leading film and tv composers and has just completed scoring season 3 of Nice Drama’s 7-part series ‘Thicker Than Water’ for Viaplay. Recent credits include the feature ‘100 Years of Evil’ for Golden Eagle Films, which had a US release and the hit Swedish crime series […]
KERMODE & MAYO LIST THE JIM MARSHALL MOVIE IN TOP 5 WEEK 6
His latest feature documentary Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall, celebrates the greatest and most gifted photographer who created iconic images of 60’s rock ‘n’ roll stars, jazz greats, and civil rights leaders. It opened in the UK January 31 after a premiere at The Curzon Bloomsbury. Jim Marshall had the power […]
NOVELIST PAUL MURDOCH ADAPTING HIS HIT NOVEL ‘SUNNY’ FOR TV
Paul’s 2018 novel ‘Sunny’ about sectarianism and racism in Scottish schools has been hailed as a major weapon in the fight to eradicate these dangerous social issues and he’s now adapting it into a 6-part tv series. To date he’s published 7 novels including 3 in ‘The Peck Chronicles’ fantasy series. He’s done workshops and […]
KEITH ENGLISH’S FILM THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME TO BE PART OF AUSTRALIA’S BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Keith English’s feature, The More You Ignore Me, will be screened as part of Australia’s November British Film Festival following a successful run in New Zealand. It is currently streaming in the US after winning Best Comedy at the UK’s National Film Awards. Adapted by Jo Brand, from her own novel it tells the poignant […]
DALAI LAMA FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR JOINS SMA
Producer, writer and director Jean-Paul Mertinez runs Illumina Studios & Media, his Soho production company. He is currently producing a number of major feature documentaries, the first of which is An Officer & His Holiness: The Dalai Lama’s Secret Escape into Exile, which will have a major event premiere in India early in 2019. The film […]
‘STILL’ WRITER/DIRECTOR SIGNS WITH SMA
Director and writer Simon Blake’s first feature Still starring Aidan Gillen, Jon Slinger, Elodie Yung and Amanda Mealing premiered in 2015. It won Best First International Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh and Simon also won Best Director at The London Independent Film Festival 2015. It was Nominated for The Roger Ebert Award for Outstanding […]
CHRIS ROWE’S BRILLIANT SCORE FOR SPITFIRE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Composer Chris Rowe getting rave reviews for his score for the 90 mins feature documentary Spitfire now on general release after star studded red carpet premiere at the Curzon Mayfair on July 7 attended by top brass from the RAF, some of the surviving pilots from The Battle of Britain Squadrons and celebs, in celebration […]
LID PUBLISHING RELEASES FERGUS O’CONNELL LATEST PROJECT MANAGEMENT BOOK
Fergus O’Connell’s latest business book, The Project Management Book: 50 Ways to Run Successful Projects in Half the Time has just been published by LID Publishing. His 15 business books have been published in 25 languages running alongside his successful career as one of Ireland’s most successful novelists. He’s recently completed a screenplay based on […]
CRIME WRITER ROGER A. PRICE TO SMA
Crime novelist and screenwriter Roger A. Price after a 30-year career in the Lancashire Police Force, the Regional Crime Squad and the National Crime Squad is now an established crime writer with four successful novels to his credit and a fifth due out in 2018. Now concentrating on an original returning 6-part tv drama series, […]
ALEXANDER BALANESCU SCORES GLOBE THEATRE’S HIT PLAY
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s production of The Secret Theatre, directed by Matthew Dunster, is getting great reviews at London’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, as is Alexander Balanescu’s brilliant score for Anders Lustgarten’s Elizabethan espionage thriller. The music has been described as “Hitchcockesque”.
Many congratulations to our Swedish composer Uno Helmersson
Many congratulations to our Swedish composer Uno Helmersson for ace review for his score for The Lion Woman He’s currently working on the next series of the brilliant The Bridge http://smatalent.com/helmersson-uno/