Fancy a Jam Pictures is a boutique scripted production company based in Reading, Berkshire. Devoted to nurturing exciting new talent, we have over a decade of experience producing award-winning short films from a diverse range of filmmakers. By fostering an environment in which ambition is empowered, we ensure new voices deliver their best work. Now developing and producing long-form scripted content, we are uniquely poised to harness the next generation of cinematic talent. 

Fancy a Jam Pictures was founded in 2014 by creative partners Jack Pollington and Alex Forbes. In the decade since, Fancy a Jam have produced over a dozen shorts with a variety of talented filmmakers in association with several funding bodies including the Channel 4 Random Acts, Creative England’s iShorts, Screen South, Sky Arts the BFI Network, the National Film and Television School, and UK Arts Council.

Fancy a Jam’s short films have been selected for numerous film festivals around the globe including Camerimage, the BFI London Film Festival, Frightfest, Annecy, Flickers RI, New Filmmakers Festival in LA, Film Quest, Fantastic Fest, Encounters, Atlanta, Austin, Aesthetica and the London Short Film Festival - to name but a few.

Our films have been awarded a 2015 Royal Television Society award, a 2022 Annie award nomination and in the same year we were long-listed for a BAFTA short animation award.

Since 2020, Fancy a Jam Pictures have been focused on developing and producing longform scripted content from our network of emerging filmmakers.

It is our mission to bring new and exciting, genre redefining stories to a large diverse audience, whilst subverting expectations, surprising viewers, and honing a uniquely original voice.