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Founded in 2010 by Tom Balkwill, Dirty Looks is an independent picture post-production house headquartered in London’s West End, with a branch in central Brussels. They specialise in colour grading and mastering independent feature films and broadcast dramas. Over the last decade they have worked on many critically acclaimed projects including: 

– Danny Boyle’s films for the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony 

– Jonathan Glazer’s UNDER THE SKIN and more recently, THE ZONE OF INTEREST 

– William Oldroyd’s LADY MACBETH 

– Shane Meadows’ television series, THE VIRTUES 

– Sebastián Lelio’s, DISOBEDIENCE and THE WONDER 

They are committed to net zero emissions by 2040 and they strive to inspire positive change within their company and across the post-production industry, demonstrating that artistry and high-end technology can coexist with environmental responsibility.

Primary Activity: Post Production

Other Activities: Colour Grading, DCP mastering, Deliverables, Digital Intermediate, Online Editing

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At KoalaFX, we’re building for what’s next. That mindset keeps us focused on innovation, efficiency, and proving that a tight, high-performance team can outperform outdated traditional pipelines. Every film professional working with KoalaFX is a top priority: from independent auteur cinema to blockbusters.

Our Philosophy.

Every core member at KoalaFX can build pipelines, write scripts, and develop automation that genuinely improves quality or saves time. We’re not trying to scale for scale’s sake. We believe quality is quantity and KoalaFX’s set up enables the company to be agile and diverse, making sure any story makes it to the wide audience in the best possible way. We approach our craft as filmmaking, using the technology as a mastered tool but not the essence.

Our Values.

What makes us different is that at our core, we’re filmmakers. We understand visual storytelling from a creative point of view, this shapes how we solve every creative and technical challenge. Audiences don’t go to cinemas for technically perfect tracking or great compositing—they go for emotional experiences.

Our Foundation.

KoalaFX was founded in 2019 by filmmakers Dasha Sherman (CEO, Managing Director) and Menelaos Pampoukidis (CEO, Creative Director/Head of VFX) as a way to provide creative VFX solutions to filmmakers. Both Menelaos and Dasha, came from film-directing backgrounds, sharing four Master’s degrees in Film-Directing between them.

From day one, we believed VFX could be done differently – focused on storytelling, not just effects, with a tight, exceptionally capable core team that works smarter, faster, and more sustainably. Today that belief looks less like vision and more like foresight.

The Evolution.

Before KoalaFX, Dasha (at 24) worked as a Post Production Producer at Phenomen Films on DAU, where she oversaw post-production for 13 feature films, 4 series, and 700 hours of interactive digital content. Menelaos began at DAU as a VFX artist and soon grew into a VFX Supervisor, developing unique training techniques that enabled small teams to deliver high-end results.

KoalaFX started as a 2D studio, compositing, clean-up, and digital makeup. Within just a few years, we evolved into creating full CG worlds: complex creatures, entire CGI environments. We’ve integrated innovative technologies and AI tools not as novelties but as force multipliers that amplify what skilled artists can achieve.

Starting from tiny projects, we managed to become solo VFX vendors on films like: Brutalist, Fall, One Life, Love at First Sight, Trap House, Gator Geek and many more. Currently KoalaFX’s team is working on multiple projects including a well – known franchise called 47 Meters Down: The Wreck.

That’s what we are here for: to use the incredible advanced and innovative technology to enable Stories to be Experienced.

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Primary Activity: VFX

The Flying Colour Company is a niche high-end VFX and post production provider based in Soho, London. We specialise in providing high-quality VFX services to high-end broadcast drama productions and independently produced or tent-pole studio feature films.

Based in the heart of Soho, at 42 – 44 Carnaby Street, we are independently owned and highly flexible, with years of experience working at the top level. We pride ourselves on providing solutions and the highest quality service within an efficient and flexible model.

WHAT WE ARE

Effective: We provide a very personal and highly skilled on-set and remote supervision service that lays the groundwork for the VFX magic that follows and also helps to manage costs and expectations throughout the post-production process.

Creative: We use industry leading Flame, Nuke, Maya and Houdini workstations with a plethora of associated outboard software licenses, all of which are attached to a high speed network including an enormous amount of data storage and render power and offer the very best platform for our highly skilled and creative artists to create and deliver their, and your, work on.

Proactive: We also provide data editorial and vfx pulls, colour pipeline and workflow as well as data hosting. Our high-speed data network has been designed to store and manage your rushes from shoot through post. This enables us to do our own data pulls and conforms for our VFX which saves Production time and money.

Primary Activity: VFX

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Established in 1992, The Independent Post Company was conceived as a conduit to the top talent in broadcast television post-production.

Founding partners Mykola Pawluk and Simon Frodsham correctly anticipated the boom in demand for freelance editing talent and the company’s steady growth bears witness to the consistently high service the company provides. IPC began operation in the summer of 1992, initially representing Mykola only. Once the formula and pattern was proven to be successful, the company began to attract other editing talent and it now represents over 130 top freelance editors. IPC exclusively represents editors and only those fully dedicated to producing broadcast television programmes.

As a consequence, IPC’s membership numbers the brightest editing talent in the UK.  Dedicated students of the credit roll will recognise the cream of the IPC roster, but the company is dedicated to finding and nurturing the editing stars of tomorrow as much as sustaining the legends of today. IPC’s history of providing a top service to both its clients and editors has ensured it is the first address for freelance editors looking for representation and the first port of call for anyone looking for topflight editing talent.

Primary Activity: Freelance Crew Agency

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Established in 2009 by industry veteran Ralph Kamp (former CEO of Icon and Odyssey Entertainment) with his two children Rebecca and Gareth, Timeless Films is a leading independent production company specialising in the development, financing, production and distribution of animated and family films, giving it a unique position in the worldwide marketplace. It’s a family business with an emphasis on family entertainment.

Timeless’ slate includes internationally renowned feature films; Animals United, Justin and the Knights of Valour, Postman Pat: The Movie, Rock Dog, Monster Family (aka Happy Family), Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver and Dragon Rider. In 2018 Timeless released Pets United, which saw Timeless re-unite with writer/director/producer Reinhard Klooss and Koati, a classic style, 2D animated feature made in Mexico with Upstairs FX and actress and executive producer Sofia Vergara (Modern Family).

Timeless recently moved into their next stage of growth by optioning and developing their own IP content and films, the first of which is Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. Produced by Timeless Films in association with Axis Studios, the CG animated feature directed by Stephen Donnelly stars Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Sir Jonathan Pryce, and was released on Netflix in December 2022, spending 3 consecutive weeks in their Global Top Ten Movies Chart.

Primary Activity: Animation Production