Zephyr Films is an independent London based Production Company which specializes in the financing and production of films for the international marketplace. In the last decade we have produced, executive produced and co-produced over twenty films with combined budgets of over $250,000,000. Our recent releases include Hannibal Rising, The Last Legion, Penelope and Death Defying Acts, with The Last Station due for release later this year. We started principal photography on Black Death this spring, and recently helped finance Gurinder Chadha's It's a Wonderful Afterlife.
Chris Curling is a member of the European Producer’s Club, ACE and the European Film Academy. He also serves on PACT’s film committee and BSAC’s co-production working group.
Future Films is a unique, integrated motion picture organisation that takes productions from pre-financing to post-production and beyond. Future Films focuses on delivering reduced cost funds and acting as a portal to the investment community. Our goal is to provide the most appropriate production and financing options to producers through innovative integration of new financing methods, co-production, distribution and development activity, post-production facilities and equity funding. Our financial strategies make the most of the incentives available worldwide.
Future Films USA seeks to help cashflow US productions by maximising the potential of available Cash Rebates or Tax Credits.
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One of the UK's top film producers, Nik Powell embarked on an entrepreneurial career in the 1960s, when he set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson. His long partnership with Stephen Woolley, with whom he founded Palace Pictures and Scala Productions, brought an unrivalled slate of award-winning features to the screen, including Neil Jordan's Company of Wolves, Mona Lisa and The Crying Game. Nik's films have garnered many awards and nominations, including an Oscar, several Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe. His more recent films include Little Voice, Calendar Girls and, most recently, Ladies in Lavender starring Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.