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Studio POW
[edit] Studio POW Logo | |
| Industry | Film & Television Production Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 |
| Founder | Kevin Proctor & Perry Trevers |
| Headquarters | Soho, London , England |
| Website | https://studio-pow.com |
Founded in 2016, StudioPOW produces television, documentary and feature film and content. The company is based in Soho, London and was founded by producer Kevin Proctor and executive producer Perry Trevers. [1]
It's first film, Funny Cow, starring Maxine Peake and Stephen Graham was released on April 20, 2018 and garnered great critical acclaim with four star reviews from The Guardian, Empire, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times, The Independent and with The Times and The Daily Star awarding a full five stars. BFI magazine Sight and Sound listed Funny Cow as their Film Of The Week. Mark Kermode also made it his Film Of The Week for the April 2018 theatrical release and reviewed it again for the August 2018 DVD release Noting the division in critics' perception of the film and central character, Kermode emphasised that "its heart is absolutely in the right place but I think that is because it is not ashamed to depict the world it is actually representing".[2] The film garnered two BIFA nominations in 2018: Best Actress for Maxine Peake and Best Music for Richard Hawley.[3]
In 2019, they made Adrian Shergold's second feature with the studio, Cordelia. Cordelia stars Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Cordelia, a once promising actress who's emotional state and outlook on life is changed after a traumatic event. The film also stars Johnny Flynn, Sir Michael Gambon and Joel Fry. [4] Prior to its release Cordelia went viral on social media for its poster design which "film fans have gone wild over" with 14,000 retweets and more than 93,000 likes in just 24 hours.[5]
That same year, Studio POW made The Bookshop, a short film about a tender and introverted bookshop owner. Directed by Susan Lynch, the film had its premier on the 9th of December 2019 at The Curzon in Soho[6] and has since earned many awards including Best Original Story, Best Cinematography and Best Director at the Florence Film Festival.[7]
In 2022, the studio announced it is in production on three films including A Brush With Comedy, The Glove and Midas Man.[8]
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Release Date | Director | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Funny Cow | April 20, 2018 (United Kingdom) | Adrian Shergold | A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs. |
| 2019 | Cordelia | October 23, 2020 (United Kingdom) | Adrian Shergold | Cordelia is a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline's boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practicing his cello in the upstairs flat - a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing. |
| 2019 | The Bookshop | December 9, 2019 (United Kingdom) | Susan Lynch | Leonard, a tender and introverted owner of a specialist bookshop, retreats into his world of music to shield him from the normality of life, a life he lives through the various customers who he observes in his shop on a daily basis. Until one day, the observer becomes the observed and his world opens up to the soulful and captivating Eliza, the only person to see Leonard beyond the confines of his restricted existence. |
| 2022 | A Brush With Comedy | TBC | Louis Moir | Based on the RTS Award Nominated Short, the feature-length documentary delves into the connection between comedy and art and the creative processes of comedians. |
| 2022 | Midas Man | TBC | Sara Sugarman | From an original story, Midas Man charts the life of a man who often struggled to find his place in the world. Yet who is today universally recognised as the creator of the blueprint for music artist management. The figure with a finger on the very pulse of the Swinging Sixties - Brian Epstein. |
| 2022 | The Glove | TBC | TBC | Vic and Bob are childhood friends who own a junk shop together where they both work and live. Profits are down and with their futures in jeopardy, they approach their obnoxious landlord to explain their ‘rent’ problems. Rather than helping them, the unsavoury character gives them a choice: eviction, or locate for him a rare and unusual item.… What follows is a madcap road movie across Britain as they enter the world of strange collectables and celebrity memorabilia in search of the elusive glove. |
Awards & Nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | British Independent Film Awards | Best Actress[9] | Funny Cow | Nominated |
| 2018 | British Independent Film Awards | Best Music[9] | Funny Cow | Nominated |
| 2019 | National Film Awards, UK | Best Actress[10] | Funny Cow | Nominated |
| 2020 | Bucharest Film Awards | Best Feature Film[11] | Cordelia | Won |
| 2020 | Bucharest Film Awards | Best Actress[11] | Cordelia | Won |
| 2020 | Bucharest Film Awards | Best Director[11] | Cordelia | Won |
| 2020 | Bucharest Film Awards | Best Screenplay[11] | Cordelia | Won |
| 2021 | Florence Film Festival | Best Cinematography[7] | The Bookshop | Won |
| 2021 | Florence Film Festival | Best Director Short Film[7] | The Bookshop | Won |
| 2021 | Florence Film Festival | Best Original Story[7] | The Bookshop | Won |
| 2021 | Independent Shorts Awards | Best Cinematography[12] | The Bookshop | Won |
| 2021 | New York Cinematography Awards | Best Cinematography[13] | The Bookshop | Won |
| 2021 | Los Angeles Cinematography Awards (LACA) | Best Cinematography[14] | The Bookshop | Won |
References
[edit]- ^ "Studio POW". studio-pow.com. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Funny Cow review – grit and wit". the Guardian. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Funny Cow", Wikipedia, 2022-03-12, retrieved 2022-05-23
- ^ Cordelia, retrieved 2022-05-23
- ^ Linning, Stephanie (2020-09-17). "Cordelia film poster goes viral". Mail Online. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ Limited, Alamy. "Cara Lynch, Lorna Nickson Brown, Kevin Proctor, Susan Lynch, Tim Burgess and Ali Farahani attending the premiere of The Bookshop, at the Curzon Soho Cinema in London. The short film is available to download via iTunes from 9 January 2020 Stock Photo - Alamy". www.alamy.com. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b c d AWARDS, FLORENCE FILM. "February 2021". FLORENCE FILM AWARDS (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "News - StudioPOW". www.studio-pow.com. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ a b "Winners & Nominations · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ Team, N. F. A. "Nominations for the 2019 National Film Awards UK are announced". National Film Awards. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ a b c d "Bucharest Film Awards | Best of 2020". bucharest-films. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Award Winners: February 2021". independentshortsawards.com. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "New York Cinematography Awards (2021)". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ admin. "March 2021 Winners | Los Angeles Cinematography AWARDS". Retrieved 2022-05-23.