Factory Films, the production company that has been the long-term home to Sophie Muller, WIZ, Jamie Thraves, Dom & Nic, Alex and Liane, Scott Lyon, John Hillcoat, Pedro Romhanyi and others, has announced that its closing for business. Joint MDs Toby Hyde and Paul Fennelly told Promo News that having looked at ways of continuing [...]
British music videos was rocked last week by the news that Flynn Productions – one of the longest established companies working in music video production in the UK – has closed its doors due to financial difficulties. But rumours that Flynn’s fate had been shared by Factory Films, another mainstay of British music video production, [...]
Recent Factory Films signing Andrea Colomb masks the intense fire stomp of We Are Ocean’s Waiting Room with this dark, claustrophobic piece for their forthcoming album Go Now And Live (April 25th). We Are The Ocean Waiting Room (Full Time Hobby) Director: Andrea Colomb Producer: Marie-Claire Denyer Production Company: Factory Films DOP: Louise Murphy 1st [...]
After their first collaboration last year for the debut single Better Than Love, Hurts are back together with WIZ once again for the video for Sunday – and come up with a melodrama like no other. Switching from classic European arthouse to a fetishistic fantasy world, its audacious, gorgeous, kinky – quite simply a video [...]
A trip to the seaside – unmistakably glamourous Southend – brings the memories flooding back for this particular lady in Jamie Thraves’s evocative promo for Japanese Popstars’ synth-popping Song For Lisa. From Campbell Beaton and Tiernan Hanby: “We would like to thank the Nicolas family for all their hard work and putting up with such [...]
Alex and Liane get to grips with the big widescreen pop of new Polydor signing Clare Maguire for her single The Last Dance with this similarly epic promo – complete with dramatic fireworks and sinister gathering clouds. Very Close Encounters… Clare Maguire The Last Dance (Polydor) Director: AlexandLiane Production Company: Factory Films Producer: Caroline Greig [...]
Shot in West Sussex, Sophie Muller nails the mid-tempo balladry of Cheryl Cole’s The Flood with this classy, quite understated (for Cole) promo with excellent cinematic shots of the raging sea. Cheryl Cole The Flood (Polydor) Director: Sophie Muller Producer: Rob Small Production Company: Factory Films 1st AD: Chris Kelly DP: Richard Stewart Art Director: [...]
The Cocknbullkid is the frustrated person in the one-eyed monster suit… or is she? The big fella takes on a life of his own in Jamie Thraves’ lighthearted and highly enjoyable vid-cum-short film. With a great ending! Cocknbullkid One Eye Open (Moshi Moshi/Island Records) Director: Jamie Thraves Prod co: Factory Films Producer: Rob Small DOP: [...]
Andrea Colomb, co-director of the excellent video for Killa Kela’s Everyday (right), has joined the directors roster at Factory Films. Having worked as a researcher for directors at RSA Films, Factory and other production companies since she graduated from the University of Westminster in 2007, Andrea has gone on to direct music videos for the [...]
Heat and lust, rebellion and romance, as WIZ bestows some intense film magic on a very catchy song, with the help of a typically crack team. Its hot and wet, and was shot in steamy Bucharest. Magnetic Man feat. Katy B Perfect Stranger (Sony) Director: WIZ Producer: Phil Tidy Prod co: Factory Films Service Company: [...]
