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A bit of background - Manmade Films was set up in 2005 with two goals: firstly, to access and develop new voices from the UK film scene; secondly, to develop and finance strong genre pieces with a wide audience appeal. In the next three years we aim to bring these two goals together so that new voices will be heard across the UK and internationally.

In 2010 Manmade produced Jump with new writer-director Bindu de Stoppani. This romantic drama starring Claire Price has been picked up by Telepool for International Sales.

This year we made Bloody Muddle written by Joel Horwood and Directed by Destiny Ekaragha. This short film was made in conjunction with The Hospital Club and will be heading out to festivals in the coming months. Destiny and I also made a music video for Marli Harwood that (kind of) celebrated the Royal Wedding. Check it out on youtube (we did have loads of hits but the record label took the original version down, which was rather annoying of them).

In development we have The Nile, a period epic love story to be directed by Susanna White and The Arbitrator, a political thriller, which has support from Prescience Film Finance.

Background

Emily Man has been developing film and theatre writers, directors and heads of department for fourteen years. As Head of Development at Catherine Bailey Limited she developed writers for radio, television and film and spent two years working on David Cronenberg's Spider, starring Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson. She has recently joined forces with Peter Dunne in Beak Street Productions. Peter is an International Film Distribution guru, whose past campaigns include American Beauty, Shrek, Shark Tale and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Emily has been working with One Fine Day Films and Ginger Ink in Nairobi, Kenya to deliver two week workshops for emerging film talent from East Africa, 2011 will see the third film to come out of this partnership Something Necessary, written by Mungai Rhesa, an alumni from Emily's first workshop in 2009.