WILDCAT FILMS

CHALLENGING STORIES

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CHALLENGING PLACES

Award winning documentary & drama production

BEGINNINGS...

Wildcat Films was founded by cameraman David Baillie and journalist Jacqui Marson. The company began with covering the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and next went undercover in the then Soviet Union to report on political dissidents.

Wildcat went on to pioneer the role of independent companies in supplying exclusive frontline news from the world's most remote and dangerous locations.

Our ground breaking reports from war zones in Nicaragua, South Sudan, Western Sahara and Kashmir led to the establishment of the Channel 4 Film Fund which continues to support independent filmmakers today.

WHAT WE DO NOW...

DOCUMENTARY

Wildcat's exclusive documentaries have investigated heroin smuggling from Afghanistan, exposed the rise in toxic poisoning of polar bears, and highlighted the threat of biological terrorism.

In 2023 we produced a film looking at the implications of Finland joining NATO, and 2025 saw the release of "Arming the Arctic", our documentary on the changing geopolitics of the Arctic.

DRAMA

Drama productions have included "An Angel Passes By" which featured a teenage James McAvoy in his first screen role, and which won Best Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Other work has tackled a bilingual drama set within the UK's Chinese community, and a period piece set in the Highlands of Scotland in the 1950's.

NON-BROADCAST

We have delivered award winning educational and campaigning resources to a number of government and non-governmental bodies over the years.

Our clients have included the United Nations, Save The Children, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Energy UK, Oxfam, the Health & Safety Executive, and the British Antarctic Survey.

FEATURE DEVELOPMENT...

Like many independent production companies we have a couple of fully developed feature scripts for which we we are seeking co-producers.

"THE OTHER LANDSCAPE"

1950‘s. David Urquhart is searching for Douglas Menzies. Menzies is searching for his dead wife. What they find will change their lives for ever. A film of love, death, and the metaphysical, set in the wild Scot- tish Highlands.

"FLIGHT"

1992. In an intense triangle of love and death, a Bosnian refugee, an air-traffic controller suspended following a fatal crash, and the mother of one of the victims, struggle to find truth, reconciliation and redemption in a wild northern landscape.

"OTHER LANDSCAPE" pitch

"FLIGHT" PITCH