DRAMATIC ENCOUNTERS
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DRAMATIC ENCOUNTERS

DRAMATIC ENCOUNTERS

Information

SW9 0NR LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Activity

Production Company

Training

Description

Alby James is an independent producer, director, writer and development executive. He has a slate of projects in development, some of which are for international co-production. He is also a trainer for lead creatives in the industry and runs script labs. Recently he led a new course for the NFTS in London called the Diverse Directors Workshop. This continues now with sponsorhsip from Amazon Prime due its success. The company has received backing from BBC Drama and the BFI Film Fund

Objective

Seeking co-producing partners and financing for: 1: Taking Sides, a melodrama about Summer, a black, puff-piece journalist who's forced to become a real jornalist to save him when an angry black woman accuses her godfather, a succesful black movie actor, of rape. 2. The Dark. This is a thriller set at the end of Idi Ami's reign in Uganda where a loving mother kidnaps her 4-year-old boy from her ex-husband and attempts to cross the border overland by bus before he catches them.