We work on mainstream dramas, documentaries, music promos and feature films for all the major broadcasters.
Continually investing in the latest technology, we strive to create the absolute highest quality productions, leading us to win many awards and festival admissions including Best Craft and Best Promotion Film at the Midlands Royal Television Society Awards, and the Golden Camel and Best Cinematography at Jaipur IFF 2016.
Tom Lawes
Tom Lawes has thirty years experience working in the screen industry across a variety of fields, including as an award-winning director, cinematographer and screenwriter. Tom has over fifty credits on IMDb and has worked with BBC, Channel 4, SEGA, Channel 5, Disney Interactive and many smaller broadcasters and production companies. Tom's screen business acumen led him to buy and restore the UK's oldest working cinema, The Electric, Birmingham turning it from a derelict building to a highly commercially successful iconic UK cultural institution. This entrepreneurial approach to UK cinema exhibition was recognised in the Houses of Parliament and in Tom's critically acclaimed documentary The Last Projectionist, now part of the BFI archive.
Starting his career as a musician,
Tom Lawes composed the score for 90s BBC primetime drama All Quiet On The Preston Front. Going on to direct low budget horror films, he was later contracted by SEGA to write music for amusement machines and video games. His extensive knowledge of both visual and audio technologies lead to him co-designing and directing the touch screen games of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, The Weakest Link and many more titles combining more than £40m in sales across the world.
Founding his own company in 2001,
Tom left SEGA to return to work on films & TV full time. The business soon expanded beyond the confines of his home and new premises beckoned. The derelict Electric Cinema came up for auction in 2004 and was bought and restored by 2005, and is now one of the leading independent cinemas in the country. Within five years of restoration, turnover was increased by over 1000% and has won many regional and national business awards including What’s On Magazine Independent Cinema of the Year for consecutive five years. The restoration and success of the business was commended in Parliament by a cross party EDM lead by current Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson.
Returning to directing in 2011, Tom released feature length documentary The Last Projectionist, that charts the history of cinemas, focusing on the role of the projectionist during the digital switchover. The film received UK theatrical distribution, playing in over 80 cinemas along with many international festival screenings. The film was critically acclaimed, becoming Mark Kermode’s film of the week on his BBC show, along with Tom collecting two Royal Television Society Awards in 2012.
Monochrome
Tom directed his first narrative feature, Monochrome, a thriller starring James Cosmo, Jo Woodcock and Cosmo Jarvis. The film played internationally and won Best Film, along with Best Cinematography at Jaipur International Film Festival, going on to sell worldwide in territories including the USA and China.