...to the home for the British independent film production company Coffee Films.

Established as an experimental short film collective playing with camcorders in 1996, Coffee Films incorporated in 2003 and within a year was recognised as one of Europe's most exciting young production companies.

Progressing to music documentaries in 2005 we also made an unpredictable move into wildlife and current affairs with the film Last of the Scottish Wildcats; profiling Britain's rarest and least filmed mammal armed with little more than some sponsorship money and a smile.

As we enter our second decade we're continuing to develop unique and exciting short concepts with fresh young talent, whilst developing a slate of documentaries alongside some of the most respected names in the wildlife, music and current affairs industries. We're looking forward to continuing to create outstanding and independent thinking films for another 10 years, still motivated by the words of Francis Ford Coppola that set us on our way;

"One day some little fat girl in Ohio is gonna be the new Mozart, and make a beautiful film with her little father's camera corder and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed, forever, and it will really become an artform."

We've tried to keep it in mind. Enjoy your stay.

Steve Piper
Head of Film
Coffee Arts and Media

6.6.2008 Project Updates

Wildlife; Several projects are deep into co-production talks and we hope to be announcing our next project soon, meanwhile The Last of the Scottish Wildcats is due for release on DVD this summer and pre-orders are available now right here on Coffee Films along with a full preview trailer and ots of info, 50% of all profits from the sale of the DVD will be donated to the Scottish Wildcat Association. This exciting documentary explores the infamous Scottish Wildcat subspecies and investigates the numerous factors contributing to it's imminent extinction. We reveal the views of all the key players as well as some awesome footage of this rarely filmed or photographed cat. Below, the back and front cover artwork from the DVD!

Short films; How to Disappear Completely, A Plaster, a Paper, and a Cheese & Pickle Sandwich, 3 and Televisual Man are all still screening at festivals, on TV and the web, check the individual film pages for details. Dealer, our crossover no budget analogue/digital short project has finally completed offlining and is now onto final mixing. Trailer coming soon for this experimental short which has been in production for almost 5 years! Into The Shadow is a new scary short project written by long time friend of the company James Hancock, and to be directed by another long time friend French director Nicolas Fogliarini. We've got a great cast and crew lined up and ready to create something seriously cool during 2008, budget talks are currently underway with several broadcasters. Our friends at Crestfallen (who made Plaster, Paper...) also have a couple of new shorts planned and one in post we'll be sure to keep you updated with.

For more information, clips, production stills, and details of these and other forthcoming projects please see our Filmography section.

28.5.2008 Coffee Artists Presents...

Our sister company, music agency Coffee Artists, have started hosting their own nights with the Pizza Express restaurant chain, check out their site Coffee Artists Presents... for details of their next event, info on the musicians and so on, it's an awesome night we strongly recommend after attending the opener in April, you can see a little video clip we shot of that night's performance by our friends Sound Sanctuary below;

22.5.2008 Coffee Shorts

Have you checked out our new project www.coffeeshorts.co.uk yet? We find the best short films and distribute them around the web's most popular social networks; at present we're just adding launch programming so drop in and subscribe to get to see some of the world's best short filmmakers work.

22.5.2008 Wildcat books

We're pleased to announce that author Mike Tomkies (who makes a memorable appearance in our film Last of the Scottish Wildcats) is re-releasing his out of print book Wildcat Haven fully updated and with new photos and all that stuff. This awesome book traces 10 years of Mike's life living Grizzly Adams style in the Scottish Highlands with a German Shepherd, tons of wildlife and a family of Scottish wildcats for company; it's like nothing you;ve read before or are ever likely to again, and absolute must have for anyone interested in nature and wildlife, you can pick up a copy from publishers Whittles website.

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