When Frank, a man with a big frame and a bigger heart, hosts his 65th birthday lunch his son, Charlie, arrives home early to broach a subject that will threaten the success and tranquillity of the day - Charlie's found out that his father has terminal lung cancer and, critically, he’s decided not to have any treatment.
As a loving son, Charlie wants his father to admit to the illness and seek medical help. Frank just wants to make the most of every second he has left, starting with his birthday.
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Written & Directed by Cian Llewellyn
Produced Jack Pollington
Starring Matthew Marsh & Jordan Scowen
SHORT FILM COMING 2025
A co-production with Soverign Films and Scala Productions.
When Florence, a starving single mum, meets Bizimana, a charismatic street performer, she gains a new sense of hope. By joining his performing troupe, Florence is able to sing for international tourists, enabling her to feed her young son. As she rehearses and performs with Bizimana, the two fall in love. But when Bizimana decides to angle for a fair cut of the revenue, the troupe’s fixer quickly fires him and Florence. Soon they are thrust back into the painful cycle of poverty. Can their love survive it?
The feature is inspired by the lives of its two protagonists and lead actors, Florenz Mariserena and Bizimana Hussain. The Batwa have been evicted from their ancestral forests in the name of conservation so, to eke out a living, many perform their cultureʼs songs, stories, and dances for tourists – the same tourists whose presence has led to their evictions.
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Directed by Asher Rosen
Produced by Ian Prior, Dan Wechsler, Andreas Roald and Jack Pollington.
Filmed on location in Kisoro, Uganda.
More information coming soon.
Georgie is a withdrawn 8-year-old schoolboy with a nasty habit of picking his nose. Bullied by his classmates, unhelped by his frustrated parents and ineffectual authority figures, Georgie retreats into himself and his habit, with shocking, otherworldly results.
Nosepicker is a tale of the unexpected drawing influence from the likes of Roald Dahl’s short stories, Stephen King’s Carrie, Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive and The Stuff, the body-horror flicks of David Cronenberg and both the 1958 and 1988 versions of The Blob, among many other works of fiction and indeed the human experiences of outsider isolation and pre-pubescent growing pains.
Co-Production with Sligo Pictures.
Written & Directed by Ian Mantgani
Produced by Jack Pollington
Starring: Leo Adoteye, Chloe Hinxman, Mark Garfield, Abi Corbett, Bridgette Amofah, Simon Bubb, Myles Perry, Joe Barker & aMax Bace.
FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS
Worldwide premiere on the 19th August 2023 at H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2023, in Providence, Rode Island, USA.
UK premiere at Fright Fest on Monday the 28th of August 2023 at The Cineworld in Leicester Square, during ‘Short Film Showcase 3’.
Other screenings:
GENREBLAST, Winchester, VA, USA
GRINDFEST, Christchurch, Dorset, UK
Beyond Fest, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Toronto Indie Horror Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bolton International Film Festival, Bolton, Manchester, UK
Bushwick Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA
TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest, Torino, Italy
HorrorFest International, St George, UT, USA
Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, TN, USA
Splat! International Fantastic Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Film Quest, Provo, UT, USA
Austin Film Festival, Austin, TX, USA
Lund Fantastic Film Festival, Lund, Sweden
Belfast Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
St Louis International Film Festival, St Louis, MO, USA
BOGOSHORTS - Bogotá Short Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
Weyauwyga Film Festival, PSYCHOFEST Shorts Programme, WI, USA
Results Day follows the lives of teenage best friends Curtis (17, Book-smart) and Jordan (17, Street-smart) on the biggest days of the academic year… A-Level results day.
Curtis and Jordan arrive at Handsworth Park on their bikes. As they banter about their future we learn that Curtis dreams of escaping the concrete jungle of Handsworth for sofmewhere far away where he can have a better life.
But Jordan dreams of staying in Handsworth and amassing money, power and status so he can rule it. Both of them are caught between the dreams of childhood and the hard reality of adulthood. On the count of three they open their A-Level results. And in that moment the bitter-sweet reality of their fates set in…
Supported by BFI Network and Film Hub Midlands.
Written & Directed by Omari McCarthy
Produced by Jack Pollington.
Starring: Orion Martin & Tobias Martin-Clarke
Festivals and Screenings
World Premiere at Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2023
Flatpack Film Festival, 2023 / 2024
Birmingham Film Festival, 2024
St Andrews Film Festival, 2024 (winner of the Jan Němec Award for Best Debut )
Wolverhampton Film Festival, 2024
Windrush Caribbean Film Festival 2024)
“A couple’s relationship is at a cross roads - as Fred attempts to break up with Holly, she thinks he’s about to propose. But will an impromptu chess game finally force the truth to come out?”
In 2021 Fancy a Jam Pictures teamed up with writer / director Cian Llewellyn to produce The Fool’s Mate - a short comedy about love, heartbreak and chess. Shot on location in ‘the most eccentric pub in London’: The Nags Head.
Written & Directed by Cian Llewellyn.
Produced by Jack Pollington.
Starring: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Nell Barlow and Syrus Lowe.
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
St Andrews Film Festival 2022
Bolton FIlm Festival 2022
Birmingham Film Festival 2022
Oxford Film Festival 2022
Cambria Film Festival 2023
Dorking Film Festival 2022 (Audience Award Winner)
SHORT To The Point 2022
New York Comedy Film Festival 2022
The Gogs Film Festival 2022
Indie -Clips Film Festival 2022
New York City Short Comedy Film Festival 2022
“1980. Bright young photographer George arrives at art school, eager to learn and become a great artist. It is here he meets unorthodox teacher Lindsay. Among Lindsay's radical ideas, wrapped up in charm, he tells his students that to be a truly great artist one must experience life trauma. As well as making George face up to his traumatic past, Lindsay gives him a special ‘gift’ - he seduces him and then betrays him. Will George’s trauma make him the great Artist (with a capital A), or destroy him completely?”
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Produced for the National Film And Television School Masters course 2021.
Written & Directed by Lisa Clarkson.
Produced by Jack Pollington.
Starring: Laurie Kynaston, Gerald Kyd , Hannah Khalique-Brown, Jake Dunn, Kat Ronney, Kimani Arthur, George Greenland & Jo Ball.
© NFTS 2021
After Ronin neglects to clear up her dropped groceries, they start to mix and bubble, transforming into a small pudding. Whilst this initially seems odd, for Ronin, it is easily ignorable. Over the next few days, the pudding grows bigger and bigger. As it threatens to engulf the entire city how far will she, and the other inhabitants of her city, go to continue ignoring it?
Animation Graduation Film Produced for the National Film And Television School Masters course 2021.
Directed and Animated by: Roel Van Beek
Story by: Roel Van Beek, Julie Nørgaard Bonde Jensen and Jack Pollington
Produced by: Jack Pollington
Premiered on Short of the Week 2022
Longlisted for a BAFTA Short Animation Award 2022
Official Selection at Annecy International Film Festival 2021
Nominatied for an Anney Award 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Guanajuato IFF 2021
BFI London film festival 2021
Leeds International Film Festival 2021
POFF Shorts 2021
Anim'est International Animation Film Festival 2022
Taichung International Animation Festival 2021
Rotterdamn Film Fest 2022
LIAF 2022
Piccolo Festival Animazione 2022
3D Wire Fest 2021
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2022
Animateka 2021
London Short Film Festival 2022
Poiters Film Festival 2022
Anima 2022
Kaboom (KLIK x HAFF) 2022
Manchester Film Festival 2022
Go Short 2022 (Award Winner)
Cinemagic ‘On the Pulse’ Short Film Festival 2022
51st Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival 2022
Hallucinations Collectives Festival 2022
Animator UNSCREENED 2022
Anibar 2022
Cardiff Aniation Night 2022
Court Métrange 2022
Linoleum Festival 2022
KIKI film festival 2022
Wigan & Leigh Film Festival 2022
8th edition of REX Animation Festiva 2022
Kortfilmfestival 2022
Meet Phil Smith, the face of Amazo tape. Beloved by millions, the commercials have made the actor a household name, his face plastered around supermarkets and on billboards all over the country. After years of soul-draining work for the brand that helps provide for his family, Phil dreams of moving on to better things, to a career as a dramatic actor. As he completes his 100th commercial, a new contract from Amazo lands on the doorstep - with Phil facing a critical choice on this fateful day.
Produced for the National Film And Television School Masters course 2020.
Official Selection at London Lift Off Film Festival 2020.
Directed by Luis Zeferino, Produced by Jack Pollington. Starring Michael Matus and Jasmine Hyde.
A lap dancer is forced to reconsider her role after her besotted client discovers she is a mother.
Produced for the National Film And Television School Masters course 2021.
Written & Directed by Lisa Clarkson,
Produced by Jack Pollington.
Starring: Holly Murten & Tom Padley
Official Selection Little Wings Film Festival 2022
© NFTS 2021
What’s lurking under your bed when you turns the lights out…
Watch the film below! With thanks to Omeleto for the feature.
in 2018 Fancy a Jam Pictures worked with Writer/Director Lewis Taylor to bring the comedy horror short “Sleep Tight'“ into production. After a successful crowdfunded campaign the film shot in December. The finished short premiered at the prestigious Frightfest in August 2019. It has since received official selections at: ‘Horrorhaus’ (where it received the audience award), Leeds International, ‘Nightmares’ Film Festivals, Atlanta Comedy Fest, Hollywood Blood Horror, One-Reeler Short Fest, Anaheim Film Fest and Los Angeles Cinefest. Among many others…
Full festival list and awards below
Frightfest 2019
Nightmares Film Festival 2019
Leeds International Film Festival 2019
Horror Haus Film Festival 2019
Hollywood Blood Horror Festival 2019
Atlanta Comedy Film Festival 2019
Anaheim International Film Festival 2019
Los Angeles Cinefest 2019
One Reeler Short Film Festival 2019
London Independent Film Festival 2020
Cleveland International Film Festival 2020
Portland Horror Film Festival 2020
Cordillera International Film Festival 2020
Global Indie Film Festival 2020
Toronto International Spring of Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 2020
A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2020
Crimson Screen Horror Film Fest 2020
ME Film Festival 2020
WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival 2020
Atlanta Horror Film Festival 2020
HorrOrigins Film Festival 2020
Sacramento Horror Film Festivals 2020
Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival 2020
Bonebat “Comedy of Horrors” Film Festival 2020
Nashville Film Festival 2020
TOHorror Fantastic Film Festival 2020
Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival 2020
Hellifax Horror Film Festival 2020
FANtastic Horror Film Festival 2020
New York City Horror Film Festival 2020
Monster Fest 2020
Soho Horror Film Festival 2020
Fractured Visions Film Festival 2020
Love Horror Short Film Festival 2020
Dead and SudBuried Film Festival 2020
Pittsburgh Film Festival 2020
Anchorage International Film Festival 2020
Monsterflix Awards Festival 2020
Nosferatu Film Festival 2020
Toronto Film Channel 2020
Hollywood Blvd Film Festival 2020
Toronto Independent Film Festival (CIFT) 2021
JellyFest Film Festival 2021
River Run Film Festival 2021
NOT Film Festival 2021
Awards:
'Audience Choice Award' - Horror Haus Film Festival 2019
'Honorable Mention Award' - One Reeler Short Film Festival 2019
'Best Fantasy Award' - Hollywood Blood Horror Festival 2019
‘Remi Award for Best Fantasy / Horror Award' - WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival 2020
“Honorable Mention Award’ -Toronto Independent Film Festival 2021
A four-part EP love story for Island Records/UMG
In 2018 Fancy a Jam Pictures teamed up with ‘The Trash Factory’ to produce a 4 part EP film for up and coming Sweedish pop-producer MIO. Commissioned by Island Records the full 15 minute film (comprising 4 music videos) tells the story of teenage love and heart break.
Press links
A young man prepares for the inevitable un-dead invasion. One morning, he wakes up to find his dreams have come true, with a hoard of the walking dead outside his house. Unable to contain his glee, he suits up and comes outside with an assortment of weapons to meet the zombies only to realise not everything was as he expected.
This short film stars Game of Thrones Actor Joseph Altin and was funded by Screen South Ignition Network for Channel 4's Random Acts platform. It premiered on Thursday 10th of November as part of the second series of Random Acts TV Programme, hosted by Jordan Stephens. It was subsequently featured in comedy reaction show Gogglebox. The short has been released online by Channel 4 through the Random Acts site.
The short also had a successful festival run featuring in Encounters, London Comedy Festival, Austin Comedy Festival, Bonebat Comedy Horror Festival and Indie Flicks. The short was the subsequently theatrically screened at Electric Cinemas before the film Free Fire in April of 2017.
Set in a topsy-turvy world where football is only for girls and ballet is the manliest pursuit there is, Ballerino follows one working class boy as he defies society and his father’s wishes for him to be a ballerina in favour of his repressed fascination with his sister's sport; football.
The short had its premiere at the Manchester International Film Festival in March 2019. It has since been screened at Dorking Film Festival, Oxford International Film Festival, Lanzarote Film Festival and was awarded a ‘Best Local Short’ award at the Newbury Film Festival. Ballerino was also awarded a ‘Short of the Year' prize by Promofest.
Ballerino Premiered online in August of 2019 via the Youtube channel ‘Omeleto’. You can watch the film below.
Screen South, Arts Council England and Genera Films Funded
See the film and BTS photos below.
Belle and Bamber are inseparable friends. She, a 10 year old girl with a thirst for adventure; he, an imaginary blue monster. When Belle’s Mother tires of Bamber’s influence, she pressures her daughter to grow up. Unfortunately, Bamber isn’t planning on going anywhere. As Belle is trapped between her Mother’s pressure and her increasingly homicidal imaginary friend, she has to make an impossible decision.
Belle and Bamber was made with the support of Creative England and the BFI.NETWORK through the iShorts scheme. The project was also part supported through a successful campaign on Crowdfunder. The film stars up and coming young actress Amelia Crouch as Belle and Emily Joyce as her strict but caring Mother. The cast also includes Alex Babic as the voice of the vindictive and manipulative Bamber.
Belle and Bamber had it's UK festival premiere and it's first public screening in January of 2017 as part of the London Short Film Festival. It had a USA festival premiere in 2017 as part of the Atlanta Film Festival. It has been subsequently screened at Encounters in Bristol, Aesthetica in York, Dragon Con, Crystal Palace Film Festival, Birmingham Film Festival, Beeston Film Festival and Norwich Film Festival.
Meet the Morgans: A snapshot of the perfect family. Ian, An authoritative patriarch, His doting wife, Cassandra the quintessential housewife. Their children, Jenna, musically gifted and well mannered and Timmy, Smarter than the average 10 year old, often seen but never heard. You are invited to Sunday Dinner with the Morgans, Join us in delicious food and delectable depravity. It is going to be one hell of a meal.
Completed in 2014 the short played at over 20 festivals in 6 countries winning various awards including a Southern Royal Television Society 2015 award and a Best Undergrad award at the Learning on Screen 2015.
A young man plays a game of wits with his robotic nanny program after she gets between him and the thing he wants most....
Shortlisted for the Sci-Fi LDN 48hr Film Challenge 2015.
"Life is absurd as you've probably discovered and it's the absurdities which make people laugh."
A short portrait documentary about Frank Dunster, a man who lives on his lifeboat, rescuing stranded sailers for free.
Fancy a Jam Pictures partnered with music production studio Tailored Rhymes to create this awareness campaign for Storm CIC that was launched online during world suicide prevention day.
STORM® Skills Training CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise providing training for staff in self-harm and suicide prevention.
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Featuring - Christian Foley Mica Bernard
CEO & Co-founder Storm CIC - Dr Gill Green
Produced by Georg Seiler, Jack Pollington
Music Composition - Thomas Lydon, Dustless Digital Audio
Music Production - Danny Cross
Lyrics - Georg Seiler, Christian Foley
Film Director - Jack Pollington
Director of Photography - Matt Gillan
Editor - Chloe Alexandra Hardwick
Production Designer - Yasmin Williams
Assistant Camera - George Phull
Gaffer - Adam Grasso
Make Up Artist - Anna Kelly
Production Assistants - Brett Wilcock, Luisa Gaviano,
Location - Jack Seaman, Michael Macias, Shipwright London
With Special Thanks to National Film and Television School
Music Production: http://www.tailoredrhymes.com
Storm CIC: https://www.stormskillstraining.com
The Clash
Never mind the bollocks when it comes to dating - A young man attempts to woo a girl, using her taste in music and his last 20 quid.
Starring Michael Ayiotis and Tasha Marks.
Second Impressions
A short spin off to Sunday Dinner with the Morgans. Waking up to an empty flat after a one night stand, Jenna Morgan lets her curiosity take over.
Starring Ellysha Eglon-Smith as Jenna Morgan and Zitky Adams as James.
COAP - "We're all in the same Boat"
Entry into KODAK's annual advert competition. Shot on super 16mm Film.
Lanes Closed
A swimmer takes a relaxing break. Entry into Chanel 4's 10 second film contest.
A selection of 30 - 60 sec clips of shorts produced by Fancy a Jam over the last 5 years.
Want to get in touch? jack@fancyajampictures.com
