London TV Pitchbox: Meet the Players
Discover the companies that will attend the exclusive event
The 2nd London TV Pitchbox will take place on the 20th of September at the Century Club, in partnership with the Raindance Film Festival.
London TV Pitchbox is an innovative pitching event created by Filmarket Hub for original British series in development. Seven projects from the online call marketplace will be selected to pitch live in front of leading TV executives and companies.
Meet some of the attending companies:
AMP INTERNATIONAL is the production arm of the Alliance Media group.
With the resources to fully or partially finance projects from its own equity and gap funds, AMP works in targeted genres & niche market movies.
Since its set-up in late 2015, the company has produced quality titles such as The Gasoline Thieves, The Void, and Anna and The Apocalypse.
EUSTON FILMS
Euston Films is a prestige label with an international reputation for ground-breaking and iconic drama.
It’s inaugural series Hard Sun was a six-part crime drama written by Luther creator Neil Cross. It transmitted on BBC One from January 2018 and was a co-production with Hulu.
Among Euston Films’ other distinguished production you can find Baghdad Central and the upcoming Dublin Murders.
Evolutionary Films
Evolutionary Films is actively engaged in co-production on several high-quality films and television projects.
The team behind Evolutionary Films have produced numerous award-winning titles and have a strong track record in delivering commercial, quality features and television shows for a worldwide audience.
In their robust catalog, we can find productions such as Vengeance starring WWE Superstar Wade Barrett, the documentary Written by Mrs. Bach: Broken Silence, and A Life Lived starring Denise Richards.
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal International Studios delivers award-winning content to millions across the globe. Based in London, the company’s portfolio of production labels include Carnival Films (Downton Abbey), Monkey Kingdom (Made In Chelsea) and Matchbox Pictures (Glitch) in Australia. NBCUniversal International Studios also operates an in-house UK and LA based Scripted unit that comprises the television remake Hanna for Amazon Prime Video, which was recently commissioned for a second season. In addition, it operates joint production ventures with Working Title Television and Heyday Television, and owns an equity stake in LARK Productions in Canada.
Amongst the company’s recent scripted successes are Tales of the City (produced by Working Title Television for Netflix),The Long Song (produced by Heyday Television for BBC One) and The Last Kingdom (produced by Carnival Films for Netflix). It also has the forthcoming surveillance thriller The Capture (a co-production with Heyday Television for BBC One) and six-part drama Stateless (a co-production with Matchbox Pictures and Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films for ABC Australia).
SALON is a dynamic, modern-day, multi-disciplinary Originator and Producer of Feature Films, Documentaries, TV and Branded Contents.
Salon has recently produced series pilot Dinner With Friends for Will Smith and Overbrook Entertainment, and its first branded content series The Art of Craft. In addition, it has been commissioned by Facebook, Unilever, Simba, and Majorel to produce content.
This year, Salon has secured its first TV drama series development commission, Glue, with Channel 4.
SKY is a British telecommunications company which provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed-line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom.
Formed in March 1994 four years after the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, Sky became the UK’s largest digital subscription television company.
Among their unique catalog of creations, you’ll find high-end productions such as Britannia, Riviera, and the highly anticipated Catherine the Great starring academy award winner Helen Mirren.
Working Title Television
Working Title Television is a joint venture between Working Title Films (owned by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner) and NBCUniversal International Studios.
Most recent successes include Hanna (a co-production with NBCUniversal International Studios for Amazon Prime Video),Tales of the City (for Netflix) and the forthcoming adaptation of The Luminaries (for BBC Two). The production company also recently acquired the exclusive television rights to Black T-Shirt Collection, the first television project by Inua Ellams, writer and creator of The National Theatre’s critically acclaimed Barbershop Chronicles.
World Productions was Founded in 1990 by legendary UK TV Producer Tony Garnett and agent John Heyman, World Productions has produced over 300 hours of critically-acclaimed, award-winning drama for the BBC, ITV, Channel4, HBO & Sky.
Among their recent successes, we can highlight outstanding TV series such as Line of Duty, The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, and the Golden Globe winner Bodyguard.
Some of the most influential executives and high-end producers working in Britains’s audiovisual industry will be present at 2nd London TV Pitchbox to listen to seven selected projects, thus turning the event into one of the best opportunities to showcase a series project to the influential and prestigious British market.
To be a part of this event, register your project in Filmarket Hub’s online market and remember to make it a candidate!
