Muse of fire

Worldwide multiple festival release | World Premiere at RAINDANCE
Best Film award winners

An epic road-trip buddy movie, that aims to dispel the fear and myths surrounding the most famous playwright in history. 7 knights, 1 Dame and two friends will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever.

Broadcast on the BBC to over 1,000,000 viewers.

  • ‘STAR CHOICE’, “This impressive documentary makes good on its promise”. OBSERVER
  • ‘CRITICS CHOICE’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
  • ‘CRITCS CHOICE’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
  • “Its goal is admirable and the results often illuminating” TIMEOUT
  • ‘Pick Of The Day’, “Heartfelt and Uplifting” THE GUARDIAN
  • ‘Best Factual’ TOTAL TV
  • “An Engaging Film” BBC RADIO TIMES
  • “Riveting” THE INDEPENDENT

Global broadcast distribution via All3Media
Distributed on iTunes and other streaming services by The Movie Partnership and Illuminations Media
Film of the week on iTunes. 9/10

Featuring: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, James Earl Jones, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Fiona Shaw, Tom Hiddleston, Rita Dove, Harold Bloom, Ben Kingsley, Brain Cox, Mark Rylance, Ralph Fiennes, Baz Luhrmann, and Sandy Foster.

Directed and Produced by Dan Poole & Giles Terera (MBE)
Produced by Timebomb Pictures and Lion Television.

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Theatre of survival

Worldwide multiple festival release  | World Premiere at ENCOUNTERS

When everything about you falls, one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of The Space theatre (a.k.a. ‘The Space’, ‘Die Ruimte’ in Afrikaans, and ‘Indawo’ in Xhosa)

Real-life dramas: 10 great documentaries about theatre
‘Chris Wiegand’ THE GUARDIAN

Mixed in DOLBY Atmos, 7.1, 5.1 and Stereo by Academy award winning Paul Massey at Twickenham Film Studios (TW1). Posted at Technicolor in 2k and HD playout for DCP and Broadcast.
Global broadcast distribution via 7&7
Currently broadcast on SKY Arts and MNET.
Supported by BERTHA Dochouse.

Featuring: John Kani, Winston Ntshona, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Fatima Dike, Richard E. Grant and Brian Astbury,
with narration by Academy Award winner James Earl Jones.

Directed and Produced by Dan Poole & Mark Street
Produced by Timebomb Pictures.

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Section 1591

Feature Documentary | In Production

Filmed over four years, Section 1591, is a journey into the ugly and upsetting world of sex-trafficking in mainland America.

Filmed on R3D Cinema for a 4K streaming delivery with a DOLBY Atmos sound mix.

Featuring: Jeff Tiegs

Directed and Produced by Dan Poole & Cort Kristensen
Produced by Timebomb Pictures & New Debate

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Black Matter

Worldwide LIMITED streaming release filmed in COVID Lockdown

Streaming complete

A Musical Documentary, written by Olivier Award winning Giles Terera MBE.

“The cool art deco splendour of Crazy Coqs is here swathed in darkness by director Dan Poole, who expertly lights it and shoots it with multiple cameras all in glorious 4K. We also get some shots of those deserted Soho streets. Poole rightly judges that the barefoot modern-day troubadour he’s filming here needs no visual distractions. You just can’t take your eyes off him.”
Jarlath O’Connell | THE AMERICAN

Available in 4K and HD presentation with Stereo sound mix. Filmed at Crazy Coqs in 2021.
Made with the additional support of FANE.

Featuring: Giles Terera

Directed and Produced by Dan Poole
Produced by Timebomb Pictures & Fane

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Insoma

Short Festival Film

A darkly upsetting tale of one man’s chaos.

Filmed on Sony F55 for festival release. Posted at Prime Focus.

Featuring: Amy Beth Hayes, Giles Terera, Dan Poole, James Stuart, Lyndal Marwick,
Iris Lezcano and Steve Brownlie.

Written and Produced by Dan Poole
Directed by Mark Street
Produced by Timebomb Pictures

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Limbo

Mockumentary Series | In development Trailer available A new comedy series about life after love… and stuff. Cast: James Stuart and Dan Poole | Director: TBC Written by Dan Poole Produced by Timebomb Pictures IMDb Trailer

Mindwalker

Feature Film | In development

Robin is having bad dreams. Her daughter Alice is in trouble. Robin will go as far as she has to save her daughter.

Cast: TBC | Director: TBC

Written by Mark Underwood and Directed by Dan Poole
Produced by Timebomb Pictures

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Shakespeare in practice

DVD Distribution | Released

Partner workshop film that accompanied the award-winning Muse Of Fire on DVD release.

Featuring: Ian McKellen, Henry Goodman, Peter Gill, John Barton, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jeffery Kissoon, Giles Terera, Dan Poole & Sandy Foster.

Distributed on DVD by Illuminations Media

Directed and Produced by Dan Poole & Giles Terera (MBE)
Produced by Timebomb Pictures with the National Theatre

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Sleeping with the fish

Short Film | In pre-production

An elderly retired assassin, is confronted by her own killer in a quiet beachside town.

Cast : TBC

Written and Directed by Dan Poole
Produced by Timebomb Pictures

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The Loneliest Time

Short Film | Festival release | Streaming

A soldier, his family and PTSD.

Filmed on Alexa for DCP global festival release, available on Amazon Prime
Mixed in DOLBY Atmos by Paul Massey at Twickenham Film Studios (TW1)

Featuring: Dan Poole, Alice Henley, Louise Dylan and Nala Kibbey.

Written and Produced by Dan Poole
Directed by Cort Kristensen
Produced by Timebomb Pictures

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Where you are

Feature Film | In Development

A story of great loss, self-discovery and the inevitable kindness of others.

Cast: TBC

Written and Directed by Dan Poole
Developed by Dan Poole and Louise Dylan

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One day some years ago

Short Film | Festival release

While one is lost in their past, one can never live in the present.

Filmed on Alexa, posted at Prime Focus.
Original music by Ben Parker

Cast : Aimee-Ffion Edwards & Dan Poole

Written by Dan Poole and Directed by Mark street
Produced by Timebomb Pictures

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