Welcome to Mandrake Films!

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Mandrake Films is the home of cutting edge drama, factual and multi media content, using a wide network of collaborators and co-production partners.

Mandrake Films is dedicated to the development and production of high quality UK film for television, theatrical and online release. We specialize in new talent and co-production, encouraging collaboration with film makers from the UK and all over the world. We also produce corporate films and events for clients such as the Wellcome Trust.

Mandrake Films currently have several projects in development and production, for television and online broadcast and theatrical release. Click on titles below or go to our menu on the left to find out more.

Latest News

Mandrake Films Norge

Mandrake Films Ltd has opened up its sister company in Norway, trading from 01.10.2008.
Postal address: Rudivn. 12, 9011 Tromsoe, Norway
e-mail:

Nathilde Overrein Rapp is presenting the company and our projects at The Tromsoe International Film Festival 13-19th of Jan 2009.

more info coming soon…

Memories of a Gold Smuggler

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In 1968, three dashing young Londoners were arrested and imprisoned for an audacious crime; setting up a large scale international gold smuggling ring, and defrauding the Bank of America.  In the days before metal detectors, the gold was hidden in ladies corsets beneath razor sharp suits and charming smiles. But everything was not as it seemed for those taking part in the operation…

Based on the book “How to Rob Banks Without Violence” by Roderic Knowles.

Click on the title above to watch the pilot:

Films

I’ll be Your Mirror

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Do lesbians see beyond the physical, or are they just as partial to a pretty face and a heaving bosom as your average lairy lad? Directed by Louise Smith.

Interactive Live Heart Surgery

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For Wellcome Trust, broadcast on BBC and Guardian online. Live satellite broadcast of real time open heart surgery, with a live studio audience interacting with the surgeon and his team. Wellcome’s most popular live event ever!

Backroads

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HD (High Definition) fiction short film about the shocking trend towards sex trafficking in a sleepy Cambridgeshre village. Starring Ian Puleston Davies, star of Whistleblower, Life on Mars, Funland and Silent Witness.

Backroads was screened at the Curzon Soho on Thursday 20th March 2008 and will be showing at festivals throughout the year.

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