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Ian Arber Scores BBC2 Comedy

Ian Arber after I am Bolt and Mo Farah: No Easy Mile scored Lucky Giants 6-part comedy Quacks currently airing on BBC2 to rave reviews.

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

ALEXANDER BALANESCU WINS BEST SOUNDTRACK AWARD

After his recent FIPA D’OR Nomination for his music for Wall To Wall’s The Scandalous Lady W, Alexander Balanescu has won Romania’s GOPO award for Best Original Soundtrack for his score for The Magic Mountain directed by Anca Damian for Aparte Film. Read more about Alex

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”.

‘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 […]