Ben Pickering

Over a three decade career Ben has produced over a dozen features from micro-budget to multi-million pound projects, with clients including US television network Hallmark. His most recent features - political thriller Election Night and Give Them Wings, the 1980s-set true story of a disabled football fan growing up in northern England - have both scooped numerous film festival awards ahead of release in 2022. Ben is also a director, making his debut with London- and Paris-set thriller Two Days in the Smoke in 2014. It has recently been on Netflix. He returned to the director's chair in 2018 for psychological thriller Welcome to Curiosity, the world's first investor crowd-funded feature (which he also produced). After a limited North American theatrical run, it is currently available on Amazon Prime. His first novel Freiheit, a dystopian alternative history exploring what Britain would have looked like today if the Nazis had won the Battle of Britain, was published in 2019. His television projects Local Boys and The Copper Kings were finalists and semi-finalists respectively in the 2020 Filmarkethub UK Online Pitchbox, while in 2021 he was a double-finalist with Hostage and Let It Go and a semi-finalist with The Tank.