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“We’re setting our sights on high-end television,” said EMU Films co-founder Mike Elliott.
Non-profit organisation Creative England is investing £500,000 in UK film and TV production company EMU Films via its Creative Growth Finance fund.
The fund was established in 2019, with one third coming from Creative England and the rest made up by Triodos Bank UK. So far it has invested £2.2m in film and TV companies, with EMU Films the first film production company to receive funding.
“This is going to allow us to help set our sights on more high-end television and recruiting a television executive to help us on that side of the company,” said Mike Elliot, who co-founded EMU with Jim Mooney and Walli Ullah, of the investment.
“TV is expanding into very interesting areas, as the Small Axe anthology series of films we worked on showed. We feel like it fits with some of the authored voices that we’ve been working with. We want the right TV exec to come in and shape that side of the business.”
London and Manchester-based EMU Films first commanded attention in 2014 with the festival success of low-budget films The Goob – which premiered in Venice – and Catch Me Daddy, which debuted in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. The company has gone on to work on Steve McQueen’s...