biggerpictures is an award winning independent feature film and television production company developing a slate of ground-breaking feature films, television and internet projects for the international market.
The company was founded by BAFTA nominated producer Darren Bender.
Its first feature film, Exhibit-A, was nominated for 3 BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards) and won Best UK feature at the Raindance Film Festival.
IN PRE-PRODUCTION
CARRIONS WAKE
3D HORROR Writer / director - Matthew Sanger
the vengeful power of the subconscious.
The violent death of her supervisor forces a dogmatic student psychologist to take responsibility for a group of highly disturbed teenagers who are cut off in a remote flooded valley as their camping weekend turns into a mysterious pattern of gruesome deaths.
IN development
THE SLIGHT - a holiday kidnapping is part of a deadly lesson in manners.
THRILLER Writer / director Joe Maggio
A self obsessed manipulator who hides his true character by raising millions for charity, takes his wife on a second honeymoon to Morocco to try and make up for a recent affair. His wife goes missing from the yacht of a grandiose old English aristocrat he earlier snubbed.
When he is sent a video clip of his wife taking part in an orgy, he suspects that she has been abducted as part of an elaborate game of cat and mouse and a war of one-upmanship escalates out of control. Can he ever become humble enough to apologise for the original slight and will that be enough to save his wife’s life.
GLENDRAGON – a kung fu country girl takes on London’s deadliest Triads.
ACTION Writers – Andrew Vickers & Darren Bender
An orphaned young woman longs to escape the most remote Chinese takeaway in the Scottish Highlands, where every day for the last 15 years she has undergone gruelling martial arts training with her dominating grandfather. When hired killers burn her home and kill her grandfather she is forced to run for her life to the only place she won’t stand out in the crowd, London’s Chinatown.
She falls in love with the heir to a two thousand year old secret Triad empire before she discovers her grandfather was hiding her from a cross generational blood feud headed by her lover’s father. Can love unite the two families or will all of one family have to die before the feud can finally end.
Part funded by Screen East and MEDIA.
A WALK ON THE BEACH - gaining the maturity to become a child again.
RITES OF PASSAGE Writer - Chris Mander
A skinny and precociously cynical 12-year-old boy, goes on the run with his mother from her abusive boyfriend. But now that they are alone together on a beautiful beach, the years of accumulated resentment and mistrust leave each of them isolated.
After nearly drowning in the sea, the boy finds himself on an extraordinary journey into parallel worlds and alternate realities where he encounters a mysterious and mischievous old man, who is alternately charming, infuriating, childlike and wise. Only through the delightful revelation of the old man’s true identity does the boy discover what home really means and learn to reclaim his childhood.
Part funded by Screen East and MEDIA.