Projects
Initialize has helped a number of producers find finance, sales and / or distribution partners for their feature films. Here are some examples:
Malevolent (2018)
A Netflix Original. A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate gets very, very real.
Time Trial (2017)
Award-winning feature doc on David Miller
Lowlife (2017)
Fantasia winner, Ryan Prows' debut crime drama with comic flourishes.
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
Cult zombie high school musical
Teenage Superstars (2017)
Feature doc on the 1990s music scene in Scotland
The Most Assissinated Woman in the World (2018)
A Netflix Original. Paula Maxa, the Parisian Grand Guignol Theatre's leading lady, is famous for being murdered on stage every day. But is she linked to a series of murders?
Moon Dogs (2017)
BAFTA Cymru winning feature about two step bothers who go on a road trip and meet a beguiling young woman.
Ali's Wedding (2017)
Australian Academy Award winner
Gary Numan: Android in La La Land (2016)
Acclaimed feature doc on Gary Numan premiered at SXSW.
The Island and the Whales (2016)
Emmy-nominated feature doc about the whale huntets of the Faroe Islands.
Sunshine On Leith (2013)
Hit musical film.
'71 (2014)
Acclaimed first feature from Yann Demange staring Jack O'Connell.
Starred Up (2013)
BAFT Scotland winning feature about an explosive teenager who runs into his equally violent father after being switched to an adult prison from a facility for juveniles.
Drone (2014)
Award-winning feature doc on drone warfare.
Iona (2014)
BAFTA Scotland nominated feature about a mother and her son on the run.
Sunshine Superman (2014)
The opening film of the documentary section of the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, Sunshine Superman offers an intimate portrait of the founder of base-jumping Carl Boenish.
Not Another Happy Ending (2013)
A romantic comedy set in Glasgow, Scotland and starring Karen Gillan (Doctor Who, Oculus) and Stanley Weber.
How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire (2012)
Dan Edelstyn tracks down his lost Jewish Ukrainian heritage and attempts to relaunch his great grandfather's once-glorious vodka empire.
The Falling (2014)
Critically acclaimed feature that launched the career of Florence Pugh.
God Help The Girl (2014)
Sundance winner (Jury Prize) directed by Stuart Murdoch from Belle and Sebastien.
Let Us Prey (2015)
Award-winning genre film. All hell breaks loose when a mysterious stranger holes up in a small-town police station.
Lore (2012)
Australian entry for Best Foreign language feature at the Oscars. After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, a young woman leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945.
The English Surgeon (2008)
Emmy-winning feature doc about a brain surgeon embarks on an errand of mercy in the Ukraine.
Guilty Pleasures (2010)
Five people from different parts of the world dream of finding true love and through the power of romance fiction.
Outpost II (2012)
Hit genre film.
Shell (2012)
Acclaiemd drama about a young woman who works at a remote gas station in the Scottish Highlands with her father.
Outcast (2010)
Horror / thriller which tells the tale of a Scottish/Romany girl and her mysterious Irish traveller boyfriend.
Sons Of Cuba (2012)
Award-winning documentary set in the Havana Boxing Academy.
Black Power Mixtape (2013)
Award-winning feature doc on the Black Power Movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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