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Only available to CO:LAB Pass holders, an exclusive conversation between Adrian Wootton OBE and leading producer Pippa Harris DBE to discuss two of her upcoming films, Hamnet and The Magic Faraway Tree.
The session will look at the independent sector and working with international investment on dramas with an ‘indie’ heart and soul.
Hamnet (releasing 9 January 2026) is a great expression of independent vision and storytelling. Seen as an ‘indie-style drama’ production, it combined international financing and investment with distinctive ‘auteur’ direction and vision. The Magic Faraway Tree (set for release 27 March 2026), is drawn from a much-loved children’s classic and was independently funded, with all the challenges that entails.
The session will tease out the elements from both that speak to film-makers at all stages, including acquiring rights, financing, working with auteur directors as well as the wide range of financiers, inward investment and independent finance and funding. Pippa and Adrian will look at how the UK’s, and other territories’, tax credits were used to knit together the finance packages, and they’ll talk about the experience of working across countries, from the US to Malta to back home in the UK.
In association with British Film Commission.
This session is part of the CO:LAB Pass. More information HERE.
Only available to CO:LAB Pass holders, an exclusive conversation between Adrian Wootton OBE and leading producer Pippa Harris DBE to discuss two of her upcoming films, Hamnet and The Magic Faraway Tree.
The session will look at the independent sector and working with international investment on dramas with an ‘indie’ heart and soul.
Hamnet (releasing 9 January 2026) is a great expression of independent vision and storytelling. Seen as an ‘indie-style drama’ production, it combined international financing and investment with distinctive ‘auteur’ direction and vision. The Magic Faraway Tree (set for release 27 March 2026), is drawn from a much-loved children’s classic and was independently funded, with all the challenges that entails.
The session will tease out the elements from both that speak to film-makers at all stages, including acquiring rights, financing, working with auteur directors as well as the wide range of financiers, inward investment and independent finance and funding. Pippa and Adrian will look at how the UK’s, and other territories’, tax credits were used to knit together the finance packages, and they’ll talk about the experience of working across countries, from the US to Malta to back home in the UK.
In association with British Film Commission.
This session is part of the CO:LAB Pass. More information HERE.
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