Coffee Films British independent film production company, welcome and news

Welcome to Coffee Films; independent British film production company

...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

Coffee Films news 30.1.2009 Project Updates

Wildlife; Last of the Scottish Wildcats has been enjoying solid support over Christmas and we're pleased to say the DVD is going to be far more widely available across the UK over the next couple of months as our distributors Beckmann Publishing release it into retail outlets; you can already pick up copies through Amazon, a ton of online wildlife and Scottish stores and more will follow, later this year the main film will be available on download and VOD. If you've yet to buy a copy drop in and check out the trailer on the project website, half of our profits go to the Scottish Wildcat Association! News on new projects soon! Below, the back and front cover artwork from the DVD!

Cover artwork for the Last of the Scottish Wildcats DVD

Short films; 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 5 years! Our friends at Crestfallen (who made Plaster, Paper...) also have a couple of new shorts planned and one on the circuit now called 0800FINALGIRL, drop by their site for details... And finally, drop in on little brother Coffee Shorts, our online short film distribution project, screening our work and the work of plenty of other great filmmakers from around the world, currently in beta it goes fully live later this year. News on new projects soon!

Feature films; following an occasional trend of ours for shooting music related stuff we're working on a really cool feature length music documentary project alongside another production company from New Zealand and will be revealing more details soon!

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

Coffee Films news 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, an absolute must have for anyone interested in nature and wildlife, you can pick up a copy from publishers Whittles.

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