Colenso Films is a London based production company founded in 2022 by writer/director Richard Carroll and advertising and broadcast creative directors Paul Hodgson and Amanda Kirke. We are committed to making high quality scripted and unscripted entertainment and telling compelling stories. We source original IP, develop concepts and work with production partners to bring these projects to market.
Current projects in development:
Rough Diamond … true crime
Rough Diamond is based on the life of David Knight, a young window cleaner who was framed by corrupt Met Police officers for stealing the massive 133 carrat 'Colenso Diamond' from the Natural History Museum in 1965. He spent the next decade avenging his false conviction by humiliating the Police in a series of outrageous stunts, including a sting on Penthouse Magazine, a heist at Harvey Nichols and the "kidnap" of a Dutch masterpiece from Kenwood House.
Warwick Collins … the literary works
Warwick Collins was widely considered to be a major literary novelist. Although of the same generation as British writers such as Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Ian McEwan, Collins deliberately avoided the cosmopolitan literary world, preferring to live quietly in the country and dedicate his life to writing. Several of his novels were accepted for Booker Prize consideration and he sold his screenplay for his novel “The Rationalist” to Miramax. He happily acknowledged that his own relative obscurity in his own language was the result of his own reserve, (he was better known in French, German, Spanish and Italian translations of his work). One of the consequences of this relative obscurity, however, is that he created a remarkable body of fictional work which is virtually unknown to American readers, and which we believe is capable of making a powerful impact – the screenplays having already been written.
Supermodel Me … documentary
"Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?"
Exploring the worlds of the first male super models. Among the interviews the models share their unique experiences about masculinity, the world’s obsession with youth and the casualties of living the high life. John Pearson, still one of the world’s most in-demand models at 57, leads us through the decades of his and his friends’ extraordinary lives. As the face of countless brands including Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Valentino, Burberry, Levi’s and Gap, he has starred in more than 100 commercials. John had a starring role alongside his female counterparts including Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista in the era-defining music video for George Michael’s hit ‘Freedom 90!’, directed by David Fincher. Prestigious UK newspaper The Sunday Times named him the ‘The World’s First Male Supermodel,’ Interview magazine saluted him as an ‘Industry Legend’ and AnOther Magazine called him the most ‘Iconic Male Model of All Time.’
(Derek Zoolander)