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Sep 24, 2003, 16:33

Greg Cruttwell - Writer/Director

Greg is co-managing director of Head Gear Films. He comes from a creative background as an actor, writer and director. Greg trained as an actor at the London Academy Of Music And Dramatic Art - L.A.M.D.A. He spent twelve years working in the theatre and on television with many different companies before taking a leading role in his first feature film, Mike Leigh's NAKED. He subsequently had leading roles in, TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY and GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE. He wrote and starred in, WAITING FOR SIR LARRY, a play about a terrorist desperate for an Equity card, which was presented at the Edinburgh Festival where it won a Fringe First Award. Greg wrote and directed his first feature film, CHUNKY MONKEY, starring David Threlfall and Alison Steadman. ("Deadpan, deranged, and, like the ice cream after which it is named, an instant cult classic" movie-gazette) After overcoming the threat of many law suits the film had a sell out world premiere at the Leeds International Film Festival in November 2004, where it returned as a festival favourite and packed houses on its release at the Everyman Cinema in London. It was released throughout the UK by Revolver Entertainment and on DVD in August 2005. It was released on DVD in the USA in April 2007. Greg also wrote and directed award winning short film, FINGERS X'D, about two football supporters contemplating a sex change as a thank you to the club they follow and produced RABBIT ON THE MOON(CONEJO EN LA LUNA), which played in competition at amongst others, the Berlin, AFI and Toulouse festivals, where it won the Prix Rail D'oc as best picture. It has also won a Mexican Academy Award and received eleven award nominations in all. Greg currently has a number of film and television projects in development with Head Gear including, a mockumentary and a football comedy which has David Threlfall attached to play the lead. Greg is also attached to direct Canadian/UK film, WHAT YOU NEED, in 2007 .


Loris Vigiani - Producer

Brought in by Head Gear Films to produce Fingers X'd Loris Vigiani is a young Italian producer with an international background. He started working as a production coordinator while still at the University of Miami from where he graduated with a BA in motion pictures and English literature. After a year working in New York he moved to London, where he began working as a production coordinator on short films, television programmes and pop promos, before moving to production managing and then to producing. To date, Loris has produced the music video �It ain�t in vain� for the artist Kronite, a 30 minute pilot music magazine programme �X Music�, intended for the Middle Eastern television market, and �Fingers X�d�.

Over the last year, Loris and his partner, Gerard O�Brien, have set up a production company, BODEN PRODUCTIONS and have begun developing various genre led projects with a number of different writers.


Phil Hunt - Executive Producer

From a background of working as an advertising and music photographer, Phil is co-managing director of Head Gear Films, a production and gap financing feature film organization. 2007 saw the launch of Bankside Films, an international film sales agency, which Phil is also Co-Managing Director of and co-founded by Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher, formerly of Beyond Films. Davis takes the title of co-Managing Director and Kelliher that of Director of Sales & Marketing.

Phil began producing feature films in the mid 1990’s with FAST FOOD (Douglas Henshall and Emily Woof), sold internationally by Vine International Pictures and released in the UK early 2000 by Optimum Releasing. This was followed by CHUNKY MONKEY directed by Greg Cruttwell, (Alison Steadman and David Threlfall), It has been termed a punk ‘Abigail’s Party’ and ‘An Edward Hopper painting commissioned by Monty Python’. Head Gear’s first investment that Phil also produced was a Mexican UK political thriller RABBIT ON THE MOON directed by Jorge Ramirez Saurez, which played in competition at amongst others, the Berlin, AFI and Toulouse festivals. It has had 11 award nominations. International sales by Capitol Films.

Head Gear Films and Bankside Films now provides finance for other producers as well as producing and executive producing and international sales. Five films have been financed via Head Gear Films: THE ALL TOGETHER starring Martin Freeman, GHOSTS directed by Nick Broomfield (opening film in competition at San Sebastian), SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL directed by Roger Spottiswoode, HOW ABOUT YOU starring Vanessa Redgrave and Imelda Staunton and NORMAL directed by Carl Besai, starring Carrie-Anne Moss and Kevin Zegers.





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