About
David P. Kelly Films is a london-based production company that was founded by David P. Kelly and Elen P. Lewis (2022 Bafta Cymru winner Editing ‘Landscapers’ created by Ed Sinclair directed by Will Sharpe) whilst under a producers development and co-production agreement with Working Title films. The company’s focus is producing and co-financing films, television and international feature documentaries.
Our Work
Selected productions – Universal’s, Mad about Mambo, Aki Kaurismaki’s I Hired a Contract Killer, Sherry Hormann’s Desert Flower and recently Vera Glagoleva’s Two Women, which starred Ralph Fiennes. The latest production is The Storms of Jeremy Thomas by Mark Cousins. The company is co-developing projects with streaming platforms, Screen Ireland and with Tim Macready’s UK Pygmalion Pictures.
The company has extensive experience of producing and story development on UK and international projects. It has developed scripts from newcomers to Oscar-winning writers, and partnered under a producers development deal with Working Title films and at Elton John’s Rocket Pictures.
The company has been co-creative director for Barbican on various music-cinema events, initiating and overseeing projects with the Pet Shop Boys performing their own soundtrack to the film Battleship Potemkin.
The company expanded into cinema exhibition with Ed fletcher (now C.E.O at Curzon) and Eve Gabereau (now CEO at Modern films distributors) at former Soda pictures to purchase Shortwave Cinema, at Bermondsey sq. www.timeout.com/london/cinemas/shortwave-cinema which we successfully transformed the single screen cafe-bar into a popular local independent first-run cinema-cafe. This then lead on to a long-term strategic alliance being made with the Time-out award winning Arthouse Cinema www.arthousecrouchend.co.uk in North London.
News
World premiere and release: ‘I will revenge this world with Love – S. Paradjanov’
David P. Kelly Films – London are thrilled to announce that our next film by Zara Jian ‘I will revenge this world with Love – S. Paradjanov’ has been chosen for official selection at the Venice film festival 2024. We are looking forward to celebrating the world premiere in Venice this week and then a world-wide release with our partners on this film Boomerang Media. AM AVA Films – Armenia and La Huit – Paris.
For further press information and interview enquiries with the film’s director and cast during the Venice film festival and its USA release contact:
Paul Ockelford, Senior Account Director (International Film), Filmed Entertainment Division,
Premier Public Relations Ltd
2‑4 Bucknall Street, London, WC2H 8LA
T +44 207 292 5073
M +44 7904 855 604
paul.ockelford@premiercomms.com
www.premiercomms.com
In the press
Venice Classics: “I will revenge this world with Love” S. Paradjanov by Zara Jian (Business Doc Europe, 5 September 2024)
Soviet Cinema Legend Inspires Artist in Exile in ‘I Will Revenge This World With Love – S. Parajanov’ with Exclusive Trailer (The Hollywood Reporter, 2 September 2024)
UK producer David P Kelly joins Sergei Paradjanov doc (ScreenDaily, 19 February 2024)
‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’: New film produced by Central Saint Martins graduate David Kelly. Read more
In distribution: ‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’
Catch Mark Cousins’ portrait of acclaimed UK producer Jeremy Thomas across the USA and the UK (Curzon Cinema).
With thanks to Cohen Media Group and Visit Films.
Details of film, cinemas and tickets
For decades, legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas has driven from England to the Cannes Film Festival. This time, he’s joined by acclaimed filmmaker Mark Cousins.
On their intimate, visual five-day road movie through rural France, they remember some of the most acclaimed and controversial films ever made: The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars for Thomas when he was still in his 30s, including Best Picture; David Cronenberg’s Crash and its Cannes scandal; the masterpiece of sexual obsession, Bad Timing. Thomas introduces us to his remarkable world of movie stars–Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, David Bowie–and daring international cinema, influenced by punk and counter-culture. The journey is intercut with acclaimed actors Tilda Swinton and Debra Winger, who give exclusive insights into the man and his work.
Illustrated with a dazzling range of film clips and rich insights about creativity and survival, The Storms of Jeremy Thomas is a road movie portrait of France, a film school, and–in the era of streaming and corporatization–a passionate call to arms for movies that get to the heart of life.
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas: Cohen Media Group
cohenmedia.net • 1 min read
The film was chosen in official selection for Cannes 2021
It was shown at the London film festival and now it is to have a UK-wide release with Curzon
The film has been sold to both Curzon UK and Cohen media group-USA, as announced in DEADLINE
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/stormsofjtfilm
Official website: www.thestormsofjeremythomas.com
Company Members of BAFTA, EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY & PACT
