Balkon Films

09/02/2024

A huge thank you to the brilliantly talented poet and author, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai who graciously helped promote CHARLOT to her readers. I had the pleasure of working with Que Mai on a recent film script set in Vietnam and can't wait to get stuck in to her novels, Dust Child and her international best-seller The Mountains Sing.

You can check out her huge body of work here:
https://nguyenphanquemai.com/

10/12/2022

MONKEY WRENCH nabbed the Grand Prize for the 30-min TV Pilot category Screenwriting Competiton 2022

27/11/2022

Punk’s Not Dead!

Monkey Wrench by Ian Masters and Jon Smith, through to the final round of the Shore Script Competition.

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16/03/2022

Whoop!

First draft of our first TV project of the year complete!

MONKEY WRENCH is a 6 x 60 eco-drama that puts a very unapologetic two fingers up to the world. It's a bittersweet drama, with a unique protagonist, that might just be the tonic we all need to make sense of the world right now.

MONKEY WRENCH: Members of a notorious anti-nuclear eco-terrorist group are reunited 40 years later in a Cheshire rest home by potty-mouthed punk, Elsie Cunningham. Determined to pull off one final “monkeywrench” before they drop off the perch, the septuagenarian activists use the invisibility of their age to outsmart the security forces, overturn the construction of a next generation nuclear power plant, and find personal justice for a shocking but unpunished crime committed in 1985.

Ian Masters Jon Smith

15/03/2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/romania-first-oscar-nomination-collective-tunisia-man-who-sold-his-skin

Amazing. Kaouther Ben Hania's Tunisian entry, "The Man Who Sold His Skin" is nominated for the international feature film Oscar. The country's first-ever shortlisted film.

Romania Earns First Oscar Nomination for 'Collective,' Tunisia for 'The Man Who Sold His Skin' 5:48 AM PDT 3/15/2021 by Georg Szalai FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures and Participant 'Collective' Overall, 93 movies were eligible for this year's Academy Awards in the best intern...

08/11/2019

Another festival outing for The Quarry

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21/10/2019

Just back from pitching Radix at MIA in Rome last week and today it was announced that They Walked Alone has been shortlisted for the C21 Drama Series Competition.

Whoop!!

12/09/2019

Yippee! Otranto (Radix: Otranto) has been selected for the MIA | TV pitching forum.

We’ll be pitching with our producers, Cristaldi Pics, at this prestigious event in Rome in October.

The Drama Series Pitching Forum is one of the key events of MIA. Regarded as one the most interesting and must-attend co-production forum in Europe.

28/08/2019

We’ll be taking They Walked Alone to the 2nd London Pitchbox in September. One of seven projects being pitched to UK TV execs.

The 2nd London TV Pitchbox launched its call for projects last July for what will be Filmarket Hub’s second event in the British capital…

23/08/2019

The Quarry - screening: