Fifth Column Films is a UK film production company best known for feature documentaries Way of the Morris and TEMPEST.[1]
Established in 2006, their first project was fiction drama The Boat People, starring Raquel Cassidy and Nabil Elouahabi. They proceeded to make the UK Film Council funded short film Domestics in 2008, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.[2] The same year, their microfilm Slaphappy, directed by Tim Plester won best film at the Belfast Film Festival[3] in the 15 second category.
In 2011, they had their first major breakthrough with Way of the Morris, a feature documentary by Tim Plester and Rob Curry, about Tim's Morris Dancing village in Oxfordshire. The film premiered at SXSW in 2011,[4] before being released in UK cinemas that summer. The following year, they followed it up with TEMPEST, a feature documentary directed by Rob Curry and Anthony Fletcher.[5] The company self-distributed both films in UK cinemas,[6] an unusual achievement for a small independent production company.[7]
The company is currently in production on a feature documentary about folk singer Shirley Collins, and a fiction short, Truck, which has been commissioned by Creative England and the BFI..
| Film | Year | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Boat People | 2007 | Rob Curry | Fiction feature | |
| Domestics | 2008 | Rob Curry | Short film | |
| Slaphappy | 2008 | Short film | ||
| End of the Line | 2009 | Rob Curry | Short film | |
| Forbidden | 2009 | Rob Curry | Short film | |
| The Living End | 2009 | Rob Curry | Short film | |
| Way of the Morris | 2011 | Tim Plester, Rob Curry | Feature documentary | |
| TEMPEST | 2012 | Anthony Fletcher, Rob Curry | Feature documentary | |
| Here We'm Be Together | 2014 | Tim Plester, Rob Curry | Short film | |
| The Ballad of Shirley Collins | 2016 | Tim Plester, Rob Curry | Feature documentary |