EXCLUSIVE: New projects from UK production companies Rocliffe, Last Conker and Hillbilly Films are among over 60 selected for the 2026 Film London Production Finance Market (PFM)
They will be pitched to international financiers, producers and screen agencies on October 6-7.
Projects include Balloman, produced by Farah Abushwesha’s Rocliffe, which had Lemonade starring Barry Keoghan at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.
Last Conker producer Chi Thai will participate with Domestic, while Polly Leys and Kate Norrish, producers of Reggie Yates’s Pirates, will take part with Tin Man through their Hillbilly Films.
Producers from outside the UK participating in the market include Stephen Vandingenen of Belgium’s A Private View with Mesopotamia Cafe, and Jeff O’Toole and Andrew Keogh of Ireland’s Bread & Circus with Billy In The Bowl.
The PFM also includes a new talent strand for emerging voices, which this year includes Charlene Wango’s Fields, produced by 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow Danielle Goff for her Lunar Pictures.
Dylan Southern, who recently directed Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger, will make his first feature production for UK firm Rank And File with Miles Blacket’s Desire Paths.
The PFM will also include full access to Film London’s IP platform Upstream, an in-person event and monthly Substack/
Stephen Kelliher, managing director of Bankside Films, will give the keynote address at the PFM, in conversation with Film London CEO Adrian Wootton.
“Bankside Films has been a mainstay of the Production Finance Market since its earliest days, and their success as a company speaks to many of the same things we’re passionate about at Film London: believing in bold voices and new talent while never losing sight of a great story and how to get audiences engaged with fantastic, thought-provoking cinema,” said Wootton.
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