Fear of Thirteen, In Production
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After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murdered petitions the court asking to be executed. But as he tells his story, it gradually becomes clear that nothing is quite what it seems. The Fear of Thirteen is a stylistically daring experiment in storytelling, in effect a one-man play constructed from a four-day interview. In a monologue that is part confessional and part performance, Nick, the sole protagonist, tells a tale with all the twists and turns of classic crime drama. But as the story unfolds it reveals itself as something much deeper, an emotionally powerful meditation on the redemptive power of love and literature. A final shocking twist casts everything in a new light. Special screening at Sheffield Doc Fest 2013 |
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With almost 5 million channel views on YouTube and screened publically at over 1600 venues in more than 130 countries, First Orbit has now been translated by the fans into more than 30 languages. And due to popular demand we've now released a First Orbit mulit-language DVD The Film was made through a unique collaboration with astronauts on board the International Space Station to create a new view of what Yuri Gagarin first witnessed fifty years ago on his pioneering first orbit of the Earth. Weaving these new views together with historic recordings of Gagarin from the time, and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard, we have created a spellbinding film to share this unique moment in our collective human history. |
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In a collaboration with Stylus Films and, Dust is the fictional story of the Apollo 18 mission, written by Jon Spira and directed by Ben Lavington Martin. This short film, premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, intercuts archive film with a powerful script delivered by actor Bill Hope, and a stirring original musical score by Mark Rutherford to explore philosophical themes about life and love through the predicament of an astronaut marooned on the Moon as he looks back at Earth. |
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NASA commissioned director Theo Kamecke to make a feature documentary film only six weeks before Apollo 11’s flight to the Moon in July 1969. Instead of a simple documentary film, what Theo created was a philosophical and poetic record of Man’s first attempt to walk on another world. Working closely with Theo, The Attic Room has re-mastered his documentary classic for future generations to enjoy. Combining the only existing full-length 35mm print with recently restored NASA flight film shot by the astronauts themselves, we have created a vibrant new High Definition digital master of the movie Moonwalk One. Together with a director’s commentary, a host of extra features and a new 5.1 sound track, this is indeed the ultimate “time capsule”, recording the last year of the 1960s and the historic flight of Apollo 11. |
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A serialised five part drama for Bebo, telling the story of Jeffery J - a school football
captain who needs some help from medical imaging to keep him at the top of his game. The five episodes follow his journey
through diagnosis of a heart condition to his treatment using X-ray cameras and real time MRI equipment. 'Jump-off'
interviews with the medical professionals he meets along the way - hosted here allow viewers to explore career opportunities in the field of
medical imaging. The drama was commissioned by University College London and funded by a grant from the EPSRC. (A co-production with GovEd Communications) |
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Combining intimate interviews with rare NASA archive footage re-mastered from film to HD tape by
our sister company Footagevault, this REMI award winning six part documentary series for the Discovery Science Channel tells the remarkable stories
of the 400,000 engineers who devoted their lives to the Apollo programme. Each episode recalls the stories of
engineering failure and ultimate triumph which played out during the creation of everything from the mighty Saturn V
rocket to the individual Apollo space craft, the guidance computer the space suits and the lunar rover. These six films
tell the definitive engineering story of mankind's greatest adventure. Watch it here on line and buy it here. (Collaboration with DOX Productions) |
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The attic room acted as a series consultant for this landmark six part series for
the Discovery Channel, made by
Dangerous Films and broadcast to celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary in mid 2008. Telling the
comprehensive history of America's first fifty years of human spaceflight, the series reflects on the
highs and lows of the missions which carried the first US Citizens beyond the atmosphere, into Earth orbit and
all the way to the Moon. The final episodes cover the history of the Space Shuttle programme and the establishment
of a permanent outpost in space onboard the remarkable International Space Station. |
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Multi-award winning feature documentary about the men who flew to the Moon between 1968 and
1972. In the Shadow of the Moon
has been hailed as the finest documentary ever made about the Apollo story. The film combines
revealing astronaut interviews with rare NASA archive film sourced and re-mastered by our sister company
Footagevault.
It won the world cinema audience award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and went on general release in the US
and UK during the autumn of that year. It was released on DVD the following spring and received its UK TV network
premier on Channel 4 in June of 2008. (Collaboration with DOX Productions) |
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The attic room acted as story consultants for the original production phase of Darlow Smithson's landmark series for
the Discovery Channel. This three part
series sets out to explore the physics of the Universe, from the perspective of world renown physicist Stephen Hawking's mind. (Darlow Smithson Productions) |
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A short film about this Irish born scientist and public intellectual,
best known for pioneering X-ray crystallography and his World Peace Council activities.
Commissioned by the British Association for The Advancement of Science. (A co-production with GovEd Communications) |
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The attic room acted as science advisor to this BBC FOUR remake
of the classic 1960s science fiction classic by the noted cosmologist Fred Hoyle. When a group of
scientists receive a message from outer space telling them to build a computer, they follow the orders
with disastrous results. |
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An ongoing project to digitally archive a family's past - going back as
far as possible in all media available from still photographs to moving images and sound. This project is ongoing, as new material surfaces. |
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