Lunar Lander Films

The Severed Sun had its World Premiere at Fantastic Fest, one of the most prestigious genre film festivals in the world! Producers Jude Goldrei and Rebecca Wolff attended with Writer/Director Dean Puckett, Cinematographer Ian Forbes, cast members Lewis Gribben and Barney Harris, along with support from our North American Distibutor Dark Sky Films, and the BFI's Global Screen Fund Festival Launch scheme. Our screenings were sold out, we had amazing reviews, and we had an absolute blast at this most wonderful festival!

We are so excited to have been selected as one of Channel 4's discretionary Emerging Indie Fund awardees! We are looking forward to working with Channel 4, and huge congratulations to all of the other companies who have been selected.

We have wrapped filming on folk horror feature The Severed Sun, written and directed by Dean Puckett, which we produced alongside Rebecca Wolff at Grasp the Nettle Films.

https://deadline.com/2023/06/emma-appleton-cornish-folk-horror-first-look-1235421623/

The film stars Emma Appleton, Toby Stephens, Jodhi May, Lewis Gribben, Barney Harris, Oliver Maltman, and James Swanton, and was supported by Cultivator Cornwall’s Screen Growth Production Fund, Falmouth University, OnSight, HH5, Heatseeker Media ELD, James Brant, and Primary Visual Effects. Co-Producers are Daria Nitsche and James Brant, with Ella Turner as Associate Producer. We shot the film on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall with the most wonderful cast and crew!

After a 2 year wait, because our shoot was suspended by the pandemic, we have finally shot STOP DEAD! We're very excited about this horror short, which is written by David Scullion, directed by Emily Greenwood, and we produced with Douglas Cox, Shadowhouse Films. Made with the support of Directors UK Challenge ALEXA, ARRI, Other Brother Studios, Linda Seifert Management, Sensoria and the Sheffield Film Fund.

Photo by John Crooks

We are working with Screen International 'Star of Tomorrow' Paven Virk to develop MELA, a Romantic Comedy set in Birmingham against the back drop of the MELA festival. We are delighted to be developing this with the BFI.

Image by Hannah Metcalfe in National Geographic

Very excited that BLOODLINE (Writer: Lucy Moore, Director: Laura Smith, in development with BFI) has been selected for the prestigious European Genre Forum along with 6 other exciting genre projects from across Europe! We will attend 3 labs in Amsterdam at Imagine Film Festival, Zagreb at Fantastic Zagreb, and Tallinn at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).

We are working with hugely talented writer Nina Berry to adapt her gorgeous 5* Guardian reviewed play THE TERMINAL VELOCITY OF SNOWFLAKES with the BFI. The story explores love and quantum entanglement.

Image from Live Theatre

We are co-producing amazing horror short film THE THING THAT ATE THE BIRDS for writer/directors Dan Gitsham and Sophie Mair, with Sketchbook Pictures and Rebecca Wolff at Grasp the Nettle Films. The film is funded by ALTER & BFI and we are currently shooting in Yorkshire.

Hugely excited that our short film MA'AM has been selected as one of the 5 Bumble Female Film Force short films! This will be writer Joy Wilkinson's (DOCTOR WHO) directorial debut. We are co-producing with the amazing Rebecca Wolff at Grasp the Nettle Films, and shooting in October.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bumbles-female-film-force-competition-selects-winning-projects-1217689

We are delighted to have been selected as one of the final 11 short film projects in Bumble's Female Film Force, with writer/director Joy Wilkinson ! Joy is an experienced writer working across film, TV, radio, and this will be her first film as a director.

https://bumble.com/the-buzz/FFFFinalists

Our smart female-led horror film BLOODLINE is now in development with the BFI. Excited to be working on this with talented horror buffs Lucy Moore (Writer) and Laura Smith (Director).

Happy to announced that Lunar Lander Films has been named as one of Creative England's 2017 CE50 cohort! CE celebrates the achievements of 50 of the best up and coming, innovative and disruptive individuals and companies across film, games and digital tech.

You can read about the 50 companies here:

http://www.creativeengland.co.uk/celive-2017-synthesise/ce50

Jude is lucky enough to have been selected for the amazing Guiding Lights, and excited to have the fantastic Robert Jones as her producer mentor.

www.lighthouse.org.uk/guiding-lights/mentors-and-mentees/2016-2017-mentees-mentors

www.screendaily.com/news/andrew-haigh-tessa-ross-alex-garland-sign-up-for-talent-scheme/5115113.article

Our feature SMALLTOWN BOY has made it through to the final 6 of Film London's Microwave. SMALLTOWN BOY is written and directed by Alex Winckler, produced by Jude Goldrei and Maria Forsstrom, with executive producers Archers Mark.

http://filmlondon.org.uk/2016-17-microwave-slate

Excited to announce that our comedy feature films BLOW UP DOLLS (Writer: Joy Wilkinson, Director: Carolina Giammetta) is through to the final round of iFeatures! iFeatures is run by Creative England with support from the BFI and BBC Films. We've been enjoying the development programme and our script is shaping up nicely.

www.ifeatures.co.uk/blow-up-dolls.html

www.screendaily.com/news/production/lady-macbeth-backer-creative-england-reveals-ifeatures-shortlist/5111249.article

We are over the moon that Lunar Lander Films is one of 22 film companies in the UK to have been selected for a BFI Vision Award! Looking forward to working with the BFI as we expand our exciting slate, and big congrats to all the companies too!