Will clarke

Source: Darren Brade

Will Clarke

Altitude’s Will Clarke will give the keynote speech of the 19th Film London Production Finance Market (PFM), which takes place from October 7-8 during the BFI London FIlm Festival. 

Clarke, who is co-CEO, chairman and co-founder of UK production, sales and distribution outfit Altitude, will be in conversation with Film London CEO Adrian Wootton.

“Will is arguably one of our industry’s most successful entrepreneurs, with a view across the whole value chain,” said Wootton.

“I’m a passionate believer in British cinema and entertaining and engaging audiences in cinemas and at home,” said Clarke. “Having spent a lifetime working in distribution, sales and production, I’m incredibly optimistic at the opportunity British independent filmmakers have right now to make more commercially successful films.

“The Production Finance Market is a vital opportunity for our fantastic filmmaking talent to have their projects and voices heard, championed and potentially financed.”

The 2025 PFM will bring together 110 producers and filmmakers, and 74 financiers, for one-to-one meetings to navigate potential business partners and investment.

The 39 titles in the PFM’s main strand include UK projects Afterwards, produced by Farah Abushwesha and Rachel Lysaght for Rocliffe; Rob The Joint, produced by Loran Dunn for Delaval Film; and Should Mami Jane Die, produced by Gail Egan, Otto Bathurst and Matt Barber for Potboiler, Otto Bathurst Films and New Empire Pictures.

International projects  include Here After, directed by Mees Peijnenburg and produced by Erik Glijnis for the Netherlands’ Lemming Film; Modern Lovers, produced by Lizzette Atkins for Australia’s Unicorn Films; and Amy, produced by Yann Sochaczewski for Germany’s Altay Film.

There are 20 further projects in the new talent strand, including Roxy Rezvany’s Being North Korean, produced by Aya Kaido for the UK’s Besheh Meesheh Films.

The PFM has introduced 708 projects to financiers, studios and sales agents across the last decade, with a total value of deals at over £254m, it said. Previous projects include The Ceremony, winner of the Sean Connery prize at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival; Berlinale 2024 Generation title Last Swim; and SXSW Grand Jury award winner Grand Theft Hamlet.

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