Hot Property Films announces Two New Sci-Fi Productions – DOGFIGHT and PIPER following US Release of their Sci-Fi Thriller IDENTICALS

HOT PROPERTY FILMS ANNOUNCES TWO NEW SCI-FI PRODUCTIONS – DOGFIGHT AND PIPER FOLLOWING THE US RELEASE OF THEIR SCI-FI IDENTICALS THROUGH SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS AND NEW UK DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH ARROW FILMS

Hot Property Films is thrilled to announce their upcoming slate of two Science Fiction productions DOGFIGHT and PIPER following the recent US theatrical release of their Sci-Fi IDENTICALS in US theatres, distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Arrow Films have picked up IDENTICALS for the UK and will be releasing later this year after featuring in SciFi London International Film Festival on 3rd and 6th May. International sales are handled by The Match Factory.

Producer Janine Marmot is currently developing two science fiction films with BAFTA winning writer/ director Simon Pummell through their company Hot Property Films. DOGFIGHT is an adaption of the William Gibson and Michael Swanwick story of the same name. It follows Deke, a 'proleboy' fighter, as he struggles to make good in a future world of illegal 'simulated sensorium' boxing and holographic gaming. And PIPER, a story set in an abandoned space station, which explores what happens when Artificial Intelligence creates new links between human and animal.

Janine Marmot is also developing Ned Beauman’s THE PRICE ON YOUR HEAD, feature documentary FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN with Michael Whyte (LOOKING FOR LIGHT, NO GREATER LOVE), in addition to fiction and documentary projects with Grant Gee (INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES, JOY DIVISION).

IDENTICALS is a psychological thriller, a film stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. Imagine discovering you're not unique, other versions of yourself - IDENTICALS - are hunting you down and only the strongest will survive. IDENTICALS is a film about a man - Slater - who must kill his old selves to create himself anew and his search for Nadia, the woman he loves.

IDENTICALS is a UK-Irish–Netherlands co-production, written and directed by Simon Pummell (SHOCK HEAD SOUL, BODYSONG) and produced by Janine Marmot (INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES, BODYSONG). It stars** Lachlan Nieboer** (SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF, CROSS OF HONOUR) and Nora-Jane Noone (BROOKLYN, THE DESCENT) Nick Blood (AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Peter Greenaway’s regular collaborator Reinier van Brummelen is the Director of Photography.

IDENTICALS is produced by Janine Marmot (Hot Property Films) in co-production with Conor Barry and John Keville (SP Film) and Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film) in association with Keith Griffiths’ Illuminations Films (BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, UNCLE BOONMEE) and Amy Gardner’s Finite Films. The film is financed by the BFI Film Fund, the Irish Film Board, the Netherlands Film Fund and Finite Films.

IDENTICALS is Simon Pummell’s first narrative feature film. He is best known for directing the BAFTA-winning documentary feature film BODYSONG (2003) that Time magazine described as “an utterly mesmerising and humbling portrait of humanity.” It was the first film to be scored by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and in 2010 was re-released as a British Film Institute Collectors Edition DVD and book.

Simon’s second feature documentary SHOCK HEAD SOUL premiered in the Orizzonti Competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2011. The partner suite of animation films The Sputnik Effect showed as installations in galleries in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Melbourne and Antwerp. The project forms a portrait of Daniel Paul Schreber the 19th Century outsider artist who elaborated a steam-punk vision of a machine universe penetrated by networks of ‘nerve-rays’, with himself at the very centre as God’s chosen bride.

Earlier in his career he made numerous award-winning animated films for UK television exploring various interpenetrations of technology and bodies. More recently an on-going series of animation films Atlas For Animate Bodies showed as an installation at the Victoria & Albert Museum London in Sept 2013, and KASK Ghent in 2015

In 2007/9 he was a Harvard University Film Study Center Fellow. Since 2010 he is Research Professor and Director of the Media Design Program at the Piet Zwart Institute for Graduate Research and Study.

He is currently developing two new science-fiction feature-film screenplays with Hot Property Films: an adaptation of William Gibson’s DOGFIGHT and PIPER.

Janine Marmot said “I love science fiction, it allows us to explore today through the lens of tomorrow, in a genre that really connects with audiences and gives us the opportunity to create visually stunning worlds. I’m very excited about working with Simon on these new films."

Simon Pummell said “I have been a William Gibson fan for as long as I have been a filmmaker. I’m really thrilled to have the chance to make a screen adaption of the Gibson and Swanwick story DOGFIGHT. The story is a beautiful glimpse into Gibson’s entire fictional world.”

“Probably the most important novelist of the past two decades” The Guardian on William Gibson

About Hot Property
Hot Property was set up in 1995 by the critically acclaimed BAFTA winning team producer Janine Marmot and writer/director Simon Pummell. . Two films produced by Janine have won a BAFTA, BODYSONG directed by Simon Pummell and most recently KELLY + VICTOR, directed by Kieran Evans.

The company specialises in films where the narrative content is strengthened by a strong visual realisation. Hot Property has a slate of films in development with the BFI and Media. Recent films include Simon Pummell’s IDENTICALS and SHOCK HEAD SOUL; Grant Gee and Orhan Pamuk’s INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES , Michael Whyte’s LOOKING FOR LIGHT and Kieran Evans’ KELLY + VICTOR.

Savage Productions is an award winning Dublin-based film production company of producers Conor Barry & John Keville.

Its debut feature film SAVAGE received a total of 8 Irish Film & Television Award (2010) nominations. Mark Noonan’s debut feature YOU’RE UGLY TOO premiered at the Berlin Film Festival where it was nominated for best debut feature film & picked up best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2015.
Savage Productions co-produced the feature film BRAND NEW-U, written and directed by Simon Pummell and the documentary LIFE IS SACRED directed by Andreas Dalsgaard. Postproduction of PILGRIMAGE by director Brendan Muldowney, has just been completed and stars Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal and Richard Armitage.

Rinkel Film was founded in 1996 by producer Reinier Selen, is an independent and Amsterdam-based film production company. Their philosophy is to produce high quality, character-driven feature films and television drama, often inspired by true stories, and always in collaboration with international co-producers.

Rinkel has produced many award-winning feature films, such as BACKSLIDE, NOTHING PERSONAL, SÜSKIND and COOL KIDS DON'T CRY, that have solidified Rinkel’s reputation inside and outside of the Netherlands.

In 2014 Rinkel Film released three new feature films: LOVE ETERNAL, SECRETS OF WAR (premiered at Toronto Film Festival) and Oscar-shortlisted ACCUSED. This year Rinkel Film focuses on two new features films; A REAL VERMEER (release Fall 2016) and RAFAËL, both based on true stories.

Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) **is the national development agency for the Irish film industry investing in talent, creativity and enterprise. The agency supports and promotes the Irish film industry and the use of Ireland as a location for international production. This role sees the agency directly involved in the creative process of Irish films from script to screen. The agency provides investment funding for the development, production and release of Irish feature films, television, animation, documentaries and short films.

Finite Films and TV is a fast-growing production company that makes quality content for multi platforms. With feature films and TV series ranging from £1m to £15m in budget, its aim is to consistently expand in the industry sector with a focus in providing commercial entertainment with creative content for large audiences.

Since its inception, Finite has completed production on the feature film Island (2011) starring Natalie Press, Colin Morgan and the Oscar nominated Janet McTeer as well as the TV comedy / drama pilot “Walk Like A Panther” (2011). This year Finite add Having You (2012) with Anna Friel and Romola Garai to its slate of finished films.

BFI Film Fund
With over £50 million of Lottery funding to invest each year, the BFI is the UK's largest public investor in film, and the BFI Film Fund supports first-class British filmmaking from talent and project development, through production, to audience development across exhibition, distribution and international sales.

Films supported by the BFI include Sarah Gavron’s critical and box office hit, Suffragette; John Crowley’s BAFTA-winning and Oscar® nominated Brooklyn; Sean McAllister's A Syrian Love Story, BAFTA-nominated and Grand Jury prize winner at Sheffield Doc/Fest; Yorgos Lanthimos’ BAFTA-nominated The Lobster which premiered In Competition at Cannes 2015; Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years which won Silver Bear awards for Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay at the Berlin Film Festival and went on to be BAFTA and Oscar® nominated.

Highly anticipated films backed by the BFI include Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise which is released in the UK on 18 March; Andrea Arnold’s American Honey; John Michael McDonagh's War On Everyone which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival; James Spinney and Peter Middleton’s Notes on Blindness, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House; Colm McCarthy’s The Girl With All The Gifts; and Pete Travis’ City of Tiny Lights.

The BFI is the lead organisation for film in the UK with the ambition to create a flourishing film environment in which innovation, opportunity and creativity can thrive by:

• Connecting audiences to the widest choice of British and World cinema

• Preserving and restoring the most significant film collection in the world for today and future generations

• Championing emerging and world class film makers in the UK - investing in creative, distinctive and entertaining work

• Promoting British film and talent to the world

• Growing the next generation of film makers and audiences

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About Samuel Goldwyn Films
Samuel Goldwyn Films is a major, independently owned and operated motion-picture company that develops, produces and distributes innovative feature films and documentaries. The company is dedicated to working with both world-renowned and emerging writers/filmmakers and committed to filmed entertainment that offers original voices in uniquely told stories. This is best exemplified by the Academy Award® nominated THE SQUID AND THE WHALE and SUPER SIZE ME, AMAZING GRACE and Julie Delpy's hit comedy 2 DAYS IN PARIS. Past Goldwyn titles include: HARRY BROWN starring Michael Caine, the box office smash FIREPROOF and the 2010 independent hit MAO'S LAST DANCER. Samuel Goldwyn Films also released THE WHISTLEBLOWER, a powerful, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller starring Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz, and the 2012 critics' darling ROBOT & FRANK, starring Academy Award® nominee Frank Langella and Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon. Additional Samuel Goldwyn Films releases include: DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL; Gilles Bourdos' RENOIR, the lush film about the famous painter's later years and France's official submission for the 2014 Academy Awards®; Jason Wise’s cult-hit film SOMM; 2015

Academy Foreign Language Film Award® nominee TANGERINES; the Israeli dark comedy THE FAREWELL PARTY; Sacha Jenkins’ FRESH DRESSED; the Sundance cult-hit LILA AND EVE starring Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez; Damon Gameau’s eye-opening THAT SUGAR FILM which takes on the sugar industry; and Morgan Matthews compelling drama A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND. Current Samuel Goldwyn Films releases include: Chris Bell’s expose PRESCRIPTION THUGS; Andrew Renzi’s Tribeca Film Festival favorite THE BENEFACTOR starring Richard Gere and the widely anticipated Jason Wise follow-up SOMM: INTO THE BOTTLE. Upcoming films including Toronto Film Festival’s Gala Presentation HYENA ROAD directed by Paul Gross; Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt’s octave-fueled documentary HAVANA MOTOR CLUB; Los Angeles Film Festival 2015 Audience Award recipient HOSTILE BORDER by co-Directors Michael Dyer & Kaitlin McLaughlin and Mark Sawer’s sci-fi comedy NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT.

About Arrow Films
Arrow Films is a multi-tiered, all-rights entertainments company that is committed to deliver exceptional content via innovative and pioneering marketing solutions, best of breed technical achievements and world class customer engagement. Combining State-of-the-Art restoration with bespoke, striking and unique packaging including world first personalized releases, Arrow is the global market leader in the Premium Home Entertainment market. Separately, Arrow is focused in developing its own internationally iconic brands across multiple platforms, including physical media, theatrical, digital, publishing and at dedicated fan events. From TV Series to Feature Films, Arrow delivers content to customers at the forefront of new technology in the ever-changing media landscape.