'THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON'

TV series - ITV / Drama Republic

Four-part drama set in early 1800's London, produced by Drama Republic for ITV and adapted by author and writer Sara Collins from her breath-taking debut novel of the same name.

directed by Andrea Harkin
produced by Carol Harding
EP Drama Rebublic Greg Brenman and Becky de Souza

The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a new four-part series that follows a young protagonist born into a life of slavery who is fighting to tell her own story.

We see Frannie Langton move from a Jamaican plantation to a Mayfair mansion owned by celebrated scientist George Benham and his wife Madame Marguerite Benham, but Frannie has been sent there to serve the household as a maid, much to her chagrin. 

When a terrible crime is committed, the blame is placed on Frannie, with the series following her as she fights for justice. The gripping new period drama is coming to ITV soon, and is adapted for the screen by the original author, Sara Collins who won the Costa first novel award in 2019.

Commenting on the series, Sara Collins said: "For so long I've wondered why we never see period dramas featuring black protagonists that also happen to be 'whodunnits', love stories or juicy, addictive dramas, rather than stories of victimhood. It's an absolute dream come true to be collaborating with Drama Republic and ITV on adapting Frannie for television, even more meaningful because I hope it will be all of those things, and because I know how powerful it is to see yourself represented on-screen in fresh stories that stamp all over stale old stereotypes."

'KLONDIKE'
feature film
(visual concept consultant)

directed by Maryna Er-Gorbach 
produced by Mehmet Bahadir Er & Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi
cinematographer Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi

a film following a family that lives on the tumultuous border of Russia and Ukraine in 2014

OFFICIAL SELECTION SUNDANCE 2022 - WINNER BEST DIRECTION

BERLINALE PANORAMA 2022 WINNER SILVER BEAR AUDIENCE AWARD

SEATTLE IFF 2022 - WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE

“For a work both tragically prophetic and universal in its impact, a ferocious and formalist vision of war that fuses humanism, black comedy and horror into a searing and original vision, we award the Grand Jury Prize to Maryna Er Gorbach’s ‘Klondike,'” Seattle IFF 2022  Variety

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www.klonkdikemovie.com

'LOVE  ME'
feature film, 2013

directed by Maryna Er-Gorbach & Mehmet Bahadir Er
produced by Olena Yershova (MY JOY, directed by Sergej Loznitsa, Cannes 2010)
shot in Kiev, Ukraine and Istanbul, Turkey
TATO FILM Kiev / KARAKIRMIZI FILM Istanbul 2012

The second feature of talented young director duo Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er LOVE ME is an unusual romance combining comedy and drama in an intricate and touching style.

CEMAL is indifferently willing in an arranged marriage, when his uncle and cousin drag him to a sex holiday in Ukraine in the occasion of his bachelor party.

“The set-up of Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er’s sophomore feature Love Me promises a cross-cultural romantic comedy of the traditional and predictable kind, but ends up by delivering something rather more interesting. Starting out in the vein of an English social comedy, it appears to head for Pretty Woman territory before pitching itself squarely as a serious-minded piece of social drama.”  Hollywood Reporter
'..an adventurous night through the snowy streets of Kiev they will experience affection, respect and love. Sprinkled with hilarious note of cultural clashes and an endearing display of the kindness of strangers, this idiosyncratic "comedy drama" will warm hearts in the most unexpected way.
If there would be a Kiev episode on NIGHT ON EARTH this would be it!' (Partras Panou)

MONTRÉAL IFF 2013

WINNER BEST FILM Ferfilm IFF Kosovo 2013
WINNER FANTASPORTO - OPORTO IFF 2014
Directors Week Jury’s Special Award
Directors Week Best Screenplay Award
Critics Award

The Golden Goddess Special Jury Prize 
- PriFest Prishtina International Film Festival 6th Edition Awards

45th Annual Nashville Film Festival 2014
- Special Jury Prize for Cultural Significance

ANTALYA GOLDEN ORANGE IFF 2013
IFF Bratislava 2013
IFF Cottbus 2013
 

NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

A FILM OPERA

directed by Gaëlle Denis

set build, London 2010

STREETWISE OPERA / FABLES
STINK LONDON

touring UK cinemas in 2011 including the BBC Big Screens
4 star reviews across the board
***** TIME OUT Critics' Choice

SCRATCH  (38")

directed by Jakob Rorvik
produced by Tamsin Lyons 
BREAKTHROUGH FILMS London 2009

 Against a backdrop of contemporary East-London,

Sol and Lena gradually expose each other's

dreams, fears and lies.

WINNER
Best Film Aubagne Film Festival  

SOHO HOUSE : BISTRO  (12")
directed by Sean Gray
produced by Sean Gray, Sasha Harris, Sue Longstaff
SOHO HOUSE FILMS 2010

WINNER ELECTRIC SHORTS 2010
WINNER Best Comedy at the Limelight Film Award 2010

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
PRINCE CASPIAN

directed by Andrew Adams
production designed by Roger Ford
(Asst. Art Director)

WALT DISNEY 2007

JAMES BOND - CASINO ROYALE
 
directed by martin Campbell
designed by Peter Lamont
(Asst. Set Decorator)

EON 2006

WINNER
ART DIRECTORS GUILD
Excellence in Production Design Award
NOMINATED
BAFTA Best Production Design

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

directed by Giacomo Campiotti
designed by Maria Djurkovic
(Asst. Art Director)

GRANADA TV 2002

COLDITZ (TV mini series)

directed by Stuart Orme
designed by Jonathan Lee
(Asst. Art Director)

BBC 2005

G.I. JOE - THE RISE OF COBRA

directed by Stephen Sommers
designed byEd Verreaux
(Set Designer)

2008

THE ZOOKEEPER

directed by Ralph Ziman
designed by Martin Maly
(Asst. Art Director)

HOME FOR LOST HOLIDAYS (10")

directed by Anastasia Kirilova
KOSHKA TV London 2007

FIREFLIES (23")

directed by Anastasia Kirillova
produced by Ciska Faulkner
GORGEOUS / SUGAR FILMS LONDON 2011

A modern day rites of passage tale.

OFFICIAL SELECTION  
BERLINALE CLOUD 2012
SALON DES REFUSES LONDON 2012

BIRD BRAIN (10")

directed by Giles Greenwood

shot on locations in London, 2011

co-designed with Colin Taplin

FRIENDS FOREVER (22")

directed by Marcal Fores
produced by Ania Nakov

NFTS 2007 

OFFICIAL SELECTION
IFF Venice
IFF Edinburgh
London IFF

WINNER Best short film Premiers Plans Festival d'Angers
WINNER Prix MikroCiné/Canal+ Cinema Award

'DARKLANDS' TV series, project in development

directed by Sebastian Strasser

production co-designed with Colin Taplin

(as production designer, voice over artist AND Tesla precision driver)

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NEW LOVE (20")

directed by Laurence Coriat
produced by Laerke Vindahl

FILM 4 CINEMA EXTREME

REVOLUTION FILMS

MARSEILLE 2008

HOW MUCH FOR MY BROTHER (17”)

directed by Joe Tucker
produced by Raphael Warner
JOKE DISCO FILMS London 2010  

OFFICIAL SELECTION
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

SMALL DARK PLACES  (21")

directed by Susie Watson
produced by Ruth Keleb, Ella Kelly, Christine Cheung, Kathleen McLynn
BBC 2007

 

WINNER Audience Choice Award, Best Short Film, TriMedia FF 2008 (USA) 
NOMINATED Best Short Film, TriMedia Film Festival 2008 (USA)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p0056bs3