Indefinite Films is a production company that DOES THINGS DIFFERENTLY - both in the way we work with new and established talent but also through the ideas we generate and the way we make them.
Set up by the multi-award-winning team Bruce Goodison and Kate Cook we develop fact-based global facing IP to produce Feature films and Drama series plus we have the skill and experience to make documentaries based on the same subjects.
ADEEL AKHTAR
BAFTA - Best Male Lead Murdered by my Father
“I worked with Bruce on Murdered by my Father. I find that he is a director with incredibly good instincts and an astute understanding of what actors need. The subject matter of the drama could have been dealt with in a heavy-handed manner but with Bruce’s guidance through the project, I was able to approach it with confidence. I am keen to work with Bruce again. We’ve both gained more experience since 2017. It would be exciting to develop this tried and tested relationship further on a scaled up level. “
DANNY MAYS
“As an actor you hopefully get the opportunity to work with the most creative, hard working and ingenious talents this industry has to offer. I can safely say in Kate and Bruce the work we’ve embarked upon together was some of the most artistically fulfilling, rich, fun and challenging experiences I’ve had to date. The ethos of their work is to always take risks in the choices they make. They never shy away from asking the difficult questions society and history has to offer. Whether it be compelling drama or fascinating documentaries, they never fail to seek out the truth, keep us wildly entertained and always totally gripped to our seats.”
The company are recipients of the BBC Small Indie Fund, a Channel 4 Emerging Indie and are one of PACT’s Future 30. As a regional mini-indie, we see value in the strength of partnerships and are currently developing projects with World Productions, Expectation TV, Big Talk Studios, Fields Park and Abacus Media Rights and have projects in development with BFI, Channel 4, BBC, Sky and Film Cymru.
TOBY JONES OBE
“Bruce and his producer Kate are inspirational film makers. The urgent and immediate relevance of their subjects is matched by the dynamic, compelling narratives they have dramatised. The work I’ve done with them has been full of warmth, generosity, fun and determination: no matter what the circumstances"
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MY MURDER Starring John Boyega, directed by Bruce Goodison for BBC Productions
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MURDERED BY MY FATHER starring Adeel Akhtar who was the first non white man to win the best male lead BAFTA. Directed by Bruce Goodison for BBC Productions
MAXINE PEAKE star of critically acclaimed series ANNE directed by Bruce Goodison
“Bruce has great vision. Thorough and insightful. Fabulous to work with...”
CLAIRE RUSHBROOK
“As an actor, it is always exciting to aim to meet Bruce’s high expectations of honesty, bravery, vulnerability and playfulness in the work. He creates an atmosphere where one feels absolutely safe to do so“
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GLASGOW GIRLS Musical drama based on a real story Produced by Kate Cook for Minnow Films
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THE WATCHMAN starring Stephen Graham. Produced by Kate Cook for Minnow Films
We are committed to supporting local talent and nurturing original voices from under represented sectors of society.
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THE CURE Directed by Bruce Goodison, Produced by Kate Cook for Story Films
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DOCTOR FOSTER Directed by Bruce Goodison
courtesy of Drama Republic
“The story is fiendishly complex, but this slick production did a
great job of bringing it to life.”
THE INDEPENDENT
“A truly seedy tale of informants, police corruption, robbery and a goodold-fashioned axe to the head in the car park of a south London pub.”
THE TELEGRAPH
“But director Bruce Goodison keeps the pace up, navigating the dizzying claims and counterclaims with an adept combination of reconstruction and interviews both current and archive.”
THE TELEGRAPH
IN DEVELOPMENT
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IN DEVELOPMENT
TELEVISION
A true crime serial
set 70s Wales.
SANCTUARY
INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY
Created by Bruce Goodison and written by John Donnelly
TEAM
INDEFINITE PARTNERS
FILM MAKER
Bruce is one of the country's leading drama directors with BAFTA and TV awards attached to most of the films he makes. He tends to tackle subject matter where the characters at the centre of the story are not bad people but tend to do bad things. Morally ambiguous and challenging.
His first movie Leave to Remain was about a boy lying to get his British status in the topical Leave to Remain that won awards globally and premiered at the London Film Festival.
Murdered by my Father won Adeel Akhtar his BAFTA for leading male – the first time a non-white actor had won in this category. Bruce cast a young John Boyega in My Murder which won best single film and soundtrack.
Recently Bruce directed Maxine Peake as a campaigner to get justice for the 96 killed at Hillsborough. His outstanding but unsettling Born to Kill series about a teenage psychopath saw his lead Jack Rowan voted in the Best Male lead at the BAFTA’s – the youngest ever. He also directed one of the most talked about series BBC1’s Doctor Foster season 1 for which Suranne Jones won best female lead. In 2012 he was Voted Broadcast magazine’s top 10 Mover and Shaker as one of the United Kingdom’s most exciting and successful documentary and drama Directors.
His 9/11 film Flight 93 was Emmy nominated and his documentary series about the Afghan conflict won a BAFTA.
OUR WORLD WAR written by a young Joe Barton also received a BAFTA nom and won a Grierson award for best series.
In 2008 Bruce directed Kenneth Branagh and Juliet Stevenson in the acclaimed series TEN DAYS TO WAR about the invasion of Iraq. BRINKS MAT: THE GREATEST HEIST was nominated for a BAFTA and SAS: IRANIAN EMBASSY SEIGE won the Grierson Award for the Best Historical Documentary in 2003.
Most recently Bruce directed Maxine Peake in forthcoming ANNE and has just delivered Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr’s disability film THEN BARBARA MET ALAN for BBC/Netflix.
PRODUCER
Based in Bristol, she is a founding partner of the Bristol Screen Producers. She has produced cutting edge stories from the multi-award winning BBC musical drama “GLASGOW GIRLS” (Scottish BAFTA / RTS / Broadcast / CIVIS Media Prize) featuring Gary Lewis and an ensemble cast of young actors, to the political thriller “Julius Caesar” directed by Gregory Doran of the RSC.
In 2014 she saw the theatrical release of her first feature “Leave to Remain” – a coming of age drama about the lives of teenagers seeking asylum in the UK, featuring Toby Jones and a soundtrack by the multi-award winning band Alt-J.
Her most recent work includes Broadcast and RTS West winning The Interrogation of Tony Martin, played by Steve Pemberton, Unspeakable – starring Indira Varma and Luke Treadaway and Broadcast nominated THE WATCHMAN a Channel 4 thriller starring Stephen Graham. In Dec 2019 her critically acclaimed feature length drama, The Cure was broadcast on Channel 4 – the inspirational true story of Julie Bailey, an ordinary mother who exposed one of the worst scandals in the history of the NHS, only to become a pariah in her own town.
She is currently developing a select slate of feature films and TV drama.
INDEFINITE TEAM
JIM NALLY
WRITER & DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE
Jim is an award-winning documentary maker, best-selling author and, currently, Development Producer with Indefinite Films.
Recently, he co-produced Indefinite Film’s drama documentary ‘Murder in the Car Park’ for Channel 4 and has written the three best-selling crime fiction novels that have been optioned for a TV series with Paramount through Indefinite Films.
Previous credits include directing drama documentaries ‘Madness in the Fast Lane’ for BBC One (included in Louis Theroux’s all-time top ten docs); ‘Breakout’ for National Geographic (CSC Award winner) and ‘Taking Fire’ for Discovery, (Real Screen Award nominee).
His passion is unearthing real stories that are stranger than fiction and turning them into drama or documentary drama. He is always searching for those subjects with powerful social, psychological and human elements, unforgettable characters and – where possible – unique User Generated Content.
Jim's strengths lie in writing, shaping narrative and identifying those stories, characters and events that tell us something new about the human condition and our world today.
JENNY EVANS
DEVELOPMENT EXEC / EXEC PRODUCER
Jenny Evans is a journalist and filmmaker. Specialising in investigative work, she has produced and directed for all major documentary and current affairs strands in the UK, including Channel 4’s Unreported World, Dispatches and Cutting Edge, ITV’s Exposure and Panorama at the BBC.
Jenny has also produced multiple docu-dramas, in the US and UK, and has worked in many locations across the world, often securing contact with people considered difficult to access, such as to bereaved families, prisoners in Super-max prisons and to criminal gangs.
Outside of television, Jenny was for many years a researcher for The Guardian's Nick Davies. As such she was one of the team of people who helped expose the "phone hacking scandal” (as much a police corruption story as a press abuse one). She then produced both Dispatches documentaries on the subject, each time finding sources who had never spoken out before.
Jenny has a strong track record in developing compelling programme ideas that make it to television, the most recent being an undercover investigation in to The Priory hospital group for Channel 4. Prior to training as a journalist, her focus was drama and she has enjoyed moving back in to this area as a Development Executive.
Jenny also likes to write and has a comedy script in development about being a producer in current affairs TV. If it is commissioned she may never work again.
JULIA BERG
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT EXEC
Julia Berg started her career in New York working for independent producer Anthony Bregman of Likely Story working with filmmakers including Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze.
On moving to the UK, Julia worked for producer Jim Wilson on his slate of projects with talent that includes Lynne Ramsay and Jonathan Glazer. Julia´s Untamed Stories banner has partnered with The Writers Lab NY supported by Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Oprah for women screenwriters who are 40+. Julia is joined by Cate Blanchett´s Dirty Films, Mia Bays´ Birds Eye View and the BFI Agencies to launch The Writers Lab in the UK + Ireland in 2021, with plans to launch in Europe for 2022.
At Untamed Stories, Julia develops projects with new and established talent across film and TV working with writers from Cheryl Dunye (´The Watermelon Woman´), to Emily Ballou (´The Slap´), with SVODs that include Stan in Australia and partners including Maven Pictures (Ámerican Honey´).
Julia is a voting member of the British Independent Film Awards and Women in Film and TV.
NICOLA PEARCEY
CORPORATE, COMMERCIAL AND CREATIVE CONSULTANT
Nicola Pearcey serves as CEO of Picnik Entertainment Ltd, a UK based media venture focused on bringing ambitious IP and great people together for commercial success.
Prior to forming Picnik, Nicola ran Lionsgate as President of UK & Europe, where she was responsible for the leadership of the company across its film and TV business. She helped shepherd blockbuster releases including The Hunger Games, The Expendables, La La Land and Knives Out in addition to acquisitions Military Wives, Fighting With My Family, Eddie The Eagle and Mcqueen amongst many other developments, acquisitions and management of film and TV libraries. She was a core member of the global content decision making team.
Nicola was also instrumental in growing the company’s TV business in the UK with shows like The Goes Wrong Show on BBC One, BBC2’s comedy series Motherland, and The Pact whilst also overseeing various TV production companies under the Lionsgate banner.
Nicola grew up in an entrepreneurial family and has an enviable creative and people focused drive for commercial success which fuelled her decision to set up Picnik Entertainment. Her people focused strategy recently led to her contributing to Matt Phelan’s Freedom To Be Happy book, published in 2020.
For new submissions please only send ideas that are based on, or inspired by true stories where you have some form access, a unique angle or underlying rights in the story.
EVA SINCLAIR
ASSOCIATE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER AND COORDINATOR
Eva Sinclair is an Associate Development Producer and Coordinator based in the Southwest with a background in script analysis, pitch-writing as well as an impressive knowledge of writers both new and established in the UK and internationally.
First Class graduate with a Masters from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Eva has written, directed and produced plays that were shortlisted for the Bristol Old Vic Open Session and worked on films for the drama school.
Eva has experience working for Twofour Productions, she was an RTS Awards judge for the RTS Student Awards in the categories of Drama and Animation. She was a script reader for the London Playwrights' Blog and has experience screenwriting. She is currently developing her own pilot script and series pitch.
LEAVE TO REMAIN
INTERROGATION OF TONY MARTIN courtesy of Story Films
MURDERED BY MY FATHER - courtesy of BBC Productions
