Trade veterans and producers Frida Torresblanco (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Frank Murray (First Reformed), have launched Hangtime, a transatlantic manufacturing firm headquartered in each London and New York.
Introduced as we speak because the duo work from the Cannes Movie Competition and market, Hangtime will develop and produce U.S. and regional content material with international attraction.
The partnership will deal with specialist and mainstream content material throughout movie, tv, and documentaries in each English and Spanish language. The staff is backed by an eight-figure funding out of New York and are within the late phases of securing a further growth fund.
Their line-up throughout movie and tv will span all genres together with drama, crime, thrillers, motion/journey, horror, and sci-fi.
While remaining true to “unwavering artistic integrity, the corporate is constructed as an agile development-to-delivery operation with a deal with the basics of manufacturing effectivity.” Hangtime will even work with companions to be market leaders in tech-forward manufacturing options.
Along with incubating its personal initiatives, Hangtime will even be an IP aggregator to service established studios and corporations, in addition to producer pals and strategic companions on each side of the Atlantic.
The corporate will prioritize producing content material in key markets alongside the U.S. and Spain, together with U.Ok., Eire, Australia, Canada, and LATAM.
Murray mentioned: “We’re so very grateful to our backers for believing in our imaginative and prescient for Hangtime. As a collective, we had been fast to acknowledge the worth of marrying Frida’s dedication to status auteur initiatives to my very own devotion to laborious and elevated style.
“The worldwide urge for food for tales that excite, problem, and even play to the darker corners of our nature is what I’m personally dedicated to satiating.”
Torresblanco added: “Blurring the traces between the seen and the unseen, our intention is to craft tales that resonate deeply, cross each border, and have fun the unity of the human spirit. We intention to unveil not simply in movies and sequence, however home windows into new realities—the place each voice is heard, and the place each story has an opportunity at making a common impression.”
Murray was most just lately scripted head of manufacturing within the U.Ok. at Amazon MGM Studios from 2020-2023. He oversaw manufacturing on a number of authentic sequence together with thriller The Satan’s Hour with Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine which is at the moment filming its third season, and science fiction thriller The Energy starring Toni Colette and John Leguizamo.
Beforehand, Murray was an unbiased producer, producing Paul Schrader’s critically acclaimed First Reformed starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried, which world premiered in competitors on the Venice Movie Competition and garnered an Oscar nomination for greatest authentic screenplay.
Torresblanco was most just lately CEO of Braven Movies, which she based in 2010. Her credit while there included Disobedience, written and directed by Sebastian Lelio and starring Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola. The movie, produced at the side of Film4 and Ed Guiney (Poor Issues) was nominated for 5 British Unbiased Movie Awards, together with Greatest British Unbiased Movie.
Previous to Braven Movies, Torresblanco co-founded Esperanto with producing associate and four-time Oscar-winning filmmaker, Alfonso Cuarón. Throughout her tenure, she produced the critically acclaimed and three-time Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.