Fifth Column Films is a UK film production company best known for feature documentaries

Way of the Morris ''Way of the Morris'' is a 2011 64-minute documentary about Morris dancing by Tim Plester and Rob Curry. The film received preview screenings at the Purcell Room in London's Southbank Centre as part of an Arts Council funded festival, "5,000 ...

and TEMPEST.

Early films

Established in 2006, their first project was fiction drama ''The Boat People'', starring Raquel Cassidy and

Nabil Elouahabi Nabil Elouahabi (born 6 February 1975), often credited as Nabil Elouhabi, is a British- Moroccan actor, known for his role as Tariq Larousi in ''EastEnders'' from 2003 to 2005, as Rashid "Gary" Mahmoon in " Strangers on the Shore" (the 2002 Chri ...

. They proceeded to make the UK Film Council funded short film ''Domestics'' in 2008, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The same year, their microfilm ''Slaphappy'', directed by Tim Plester won best film at the

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in the 15 second category.

Feature documentaries

In 2011, they had their first major breakthrough with

, a feature documentary by Tim Plester and

Rob Curry Rob Curry is a British film director, best known for his work on theatrical documentaries. His films include TEMPEST (released in UK cinemas in 2012), and Way of the Morris (co-directed with Tim Plester), which premiered at SXSW and was released ...

, about Tim's Morris Dancing village in

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. The film premiered at

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in 2011, before being released in UK

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that summer. The following year, they followed it up with ''TEMPEST'', a feature documentary directed by

and Anthony Fletcher. The company self-distributed both films in UK

, an unusual achievement for a small independent production company.

Future work

The company is currently in production on a feature documentary about folk singer Shirley Collins, and a fiction short, ''Truck'', which has been commissioned by Creative England and the

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Productions

References

External links

Fifth Column Films website

Boat People official website

Way of the Morris official website

TEMPEST official website

Ballad of Shirley Collins official website
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