The Production Team
- The Company
- The Team Working Together
Profiles
- Producer: Rebecca Long
- Legal & Business Affairs: Steve Spence
- Director: Alexander Holt
- Director: Lance Roehrig
- Writer: Mark Underwood
The Company
The Quicksilver Team are currently producing their first feature film. Our objective is to raise finance for Film 2 during 09 to produce in 2010. Located in the heart of Soho, the centre of the UK film industry, Quicksilver Films is comprised of emerging and established talent whose credits include a vast array of international feature films as well as a number of Nominated and Award winning short films.
We are dedicated to producing exciting British feature films with commercial potential and creative merit. Testament to this is the cast, sales, distribution and finance arrangements we have attached to date.
Over the last few years the company has developed relationships with, been supported by and is currently working alongside a number of major figures in the film industry including producers, film financiers, sales agents and distributors.
The Team Working Together
Rebecca, Alex, Lance and Mark have together written, directed and produced a series of short films including:
- Kitchen Sync (nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2006 Rushes Soho Shorts Festival and Best Film at the 2007 Court Metrange Film Festival; it was also shown in VUE cinemas throughout the UK during 2006)
- Mouse Party starring Toby Kebbell and Paul Nicholas; and Worth, sponsored by ARRI and Pinewood Studios and shot on the ARRI D20 camera (the same format we are looking to use for Matchstalk Man).
All of our shorts are being distributed internationally.
Producer: Rebecca Long
Rebecca Long has produced a number of award winning short films and music videos all of which have been distributed worldwide. She set up Quicksilver Films to produce high quality, commercial and cost effective feature films.
She completed her masters at RADA and King's College, London and began producing theatre before making the transition to film by working for the prolific American Producer David Winters where she gained experience in script development, funding, casting, production, sales and distribution.
Rebecca's producing credits include Worth (short film); Kitchen Sync (short film); Measure for Measure (short film); Parasite (feature film); Present (short film) and One Night At (a music pilot for music satellite channels) as well as numerous music promos for worldwide TV distribution.
In the last two years, Rebecca has been gaining valuable experience & contacts in all aspects of the UK film business particularly film financing and is committed to producing films which combine commercial potential and creative merit.
Legal & Business Affairs: Steve Spence
Steve Spence read law at Oxford University between 1998 and 2001. The following year he completed the Legal Practice Course and in March 2003 joined Slaughter and May, the City's leading corporate law firm. Having gained experience in corporate, corporate tax, insurance and employment departments he qualified into a corporate finance group in 2005. Much of Steve's work involved raising finance for large multinational companies through methods such as share issues, note programmes, securitisations and swap agreements. Steve has also helped advise numerous
FTSE 100 companies including Standard Life, Abbey National and Diageo. Having always had a huge interest in film, Steve joined Quicksilver in 2007 to help the Company raise finance for its slate of features. He was also recently awarded a place on the 2008 Guiding Lights mentoring scheme in respect of Business Affairs.
Director: Alexander Holt
Alexander Holt has worked in the UK, USA, Gulf, Far East and South Africa in Theatre, Television and Film. He has directed over 35 productions for the London stage as well as touring internationally. Alex's directing credits include the UK premiere of Neil Simon's London Suite starring Christopher Cazenove, the world premiere of Matchstalk Man (Bedlam Theatre Edinburgh) and most recently Little Shop Of Horrors (in Geneva) and The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (in Singapore and Bangkok).
He is the recipient of the Stage One/Society Of London Theatre New Producer's Bursary.
He has recently been working with some of the UK's biggest names on a series of masterclasses entitled Brief Encounters including Jeremy Irons, Julie Walters, Juliet Stevenson, Robert Lindsay and Penelope Keith. In respect of films, Alex worked as Production Designer on the location feature film Welcome to Ibiza and on the sci-fi thriller Parasite. He has worked as assistant to Royal Shakespeare Company director John Barton in New York on a new film version of Playing Shakespeare for PBS.
He worked as associate producer on a documentary The Show Must Go On with Sensation Pictures for PACT which was aired in the Houses of Parliament and Cannes. Alex has directed a number of advertisments and short films, including Kitchen Sync, Cluck, The Dark Room and Mouse Party (all with Lance Roehrig), Worth and Cassandra's Clock starring Judi Bowker. Dame Judi Dench has been Alex's patron for a number of years: "Alexander Holt is a first class director and I am proud to be his Patron."
Director: Lance Roehrig
Lance Roehrig has been working as an Assistant Director in the Film industry for the last 12 years in countries such as Spain, South Africa, Turkey, India, Ireland and the U.K. He has worked on over 35 Feature Films including: Roland Emmrich's 10,000 BC; In Bruges with Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes; Mr Bean's Holiday with Rowan Atkinson and Willem Dafoe; How To Lose Friends And Alienate People with Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst; Celtic Leprechauns with Whoopi Goldberg & Randy Quaid; The Stone Merchant with Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham and Jane March and; Hotel Rwanda,
with Nick Nolte and Don Cheadle. Lance has also worked as a Production Manager and Assistant Director on over 100 commercials as well as producing the documentary The Show Must Go On for John McVay, Chief Executive of P.A.C.T (Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television). This last project highlighted the achievements of the British Film Industry and was shown in the House of Commons to Members of Parliament and by the Film Council at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lance was also Associate Producer on the documentary The Angry Skies, which investigated the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge Government. More recently Lance has produced and directed his first 35mm short film Karma Coma, which was nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Won Best Edit at The Right Eye Film Festival South Africa. With Alex, Lance directed the short films Kitchen Sync, The Dark Room, Cluck and Mouse Party.
Writer: Mark Underwood
Mark Underwood has had numerous plays produced on the stage in London, Edinburgh, the UK and the United States including Matchstalk Man, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Bad Omens, The Secret Arch and The Wordsmith's Lament (a trilogy,) all for Tenth Planet Productions as well as The Franklin's Tale and The House on Chorley Street. Mark was commissioned by Time Flies to write six short plays for Gatwick Airport and several radio adverts by Sh! Production Co. for Euphoria Bahrain. His Screenplays include Matchstalk Man, Notes On Love and The Last Olympian (for Quicksilver Films), Hit and Run
(Talkback Thames), Everything But the Kitchen In Sync (short), The Dark Room (short), Mouse Party (short), Getting To Glastonbury (for Acceber Films), BigFoot SmallBudget (for DogFace Films), The Conqueror (for Alpha Beta International Films), Rapunzel , No Reason (for Tenth Planet Productions) and Curium Killed the Cat (for Handmade Films).
Mark is a prolific songwriter and has written two musicals. He has also written numerous songs which have been recorded by indie band YETI and which have appeared on various singles and the albums Yume and The Legend Of Yeti Gonzales. Another two of Mark's songs have been recorded by Tony nominee Euan Morton and released in the USA.
