Frank Whittle: A Genius in the Family

COMING SPRING 2026

The David-versus-Goliath story of the man who built the war winning jet fighter in the face of huge opposition from the scientific community, the government and big business.

In 1937 Whittle ran the world’s first turbojet engine leading to a revolution in the way we travel – all of today’s jet engines can trace their origin to Whittle’s work.

Whittle’s invention of the TurboJet marked the dawn of the dawn of the jet age.

With all the science behind Whittle’s turbojet, an engineering marvel, the fundamentals can be summed up quite simply however as “SUCK, SQUASH, BANG, BLOW”– Kerissa Khan – Former President of The Royal Aeronautical Society

“The production of FRANK WHITTLE: A GENIUS IN THE FAMILY originally set out to explore a simple question:

What is it like to have a genius in your family?

Ian Whittle’s deeply personal testimony about his memoires of his father formed the foundations of the story which we then broadened with the support of a variety of aviation experts and contributors that permitted not only a biographical presentation but also a deep look at the trajectory of Whittle’s invention.

The film took more than four years to produce, taking in locations from the across the UK. The result is that it reveals Frank Whittle as a fascinating and complex man who not only changed the world but allowed us to see what it looks like.” – Nick Horrell, Producer, Director and Writer.

The participants represent the who’s who of British Aviation History including:

  • •Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle – digitally remastered from original 16mm, filmed in 1986
  • •Ian Whittle – Younger son of Sir Frank Whittle
  • •Max Asseily – Great grandson of Sir Frank Whittle
  • •Kerissa Khan – President of The Royal Aeronautical Society (2023-2024)
  • •Professor Robert Miller – Director of Cambridge University’s Whittle Laboratory
  • •Dr Victoria Taylor – Military Historian, Writer and Broadcaster
  • •Richard Noble – Former Land Speed World Record Holder (1983-1997)
  • •Captain Eric Brown – WWII fighter ace and test pilot filmed 2007
  • •Dr Hans Von Ohain – German jet pioneer filmed in 1987

A 2025 68-minute film in 4K by Producer, Co-Director and Co-Writer Nick Horrell.

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Joan of Arc

Winner Un Certain Regard Special Distinction Prize – Cannes Film Festival.

Winner Best Film Prix Louis Delluc (Top French Critics Prize).

“Striking…contemporary without breaking the particular period spell the movie creates.” – Glenn Kenny, New York Times.

In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan leads the army of the King of France. When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the accusations, the graceful Joan of Arc will stay true to her mission.

Bruno Dumont’s decision to work with a ten-year-old actress re-injects this heroine’s timeless cause and ideology with a modernity that highlights both the tragic female condition and the incredible fervor, strength and freedom women show when shackled by societies and archaic virile orders that belittle and alienate them.

“Dumont transforms the tale into a dialectical spectacle.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker.

Stars Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Annick Lavieville, Justine Herbez, Benoît Robail.

2019 / 138 Minutes / French with English Subtitles. A film by Bruno Dumont.

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Genesis 2.0.

“[A] fascinating and somewhat frightening documentary set in the fast-forward arena of synthetic biology.” – Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times

Genesis 2.0 is a documentary film made by Oscar-Nominated Swiss director and producer Christian Frei and Russian filmmaker Maxim Abugaev

On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. One day, they discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Resurrecting the woolly mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution – genetics. It may well turn our world upside down.

Werner Herzog meets Jurassic Park in this real-life thriller that explores humanity’s reckless courage and the dawning of a new and unprecedented age of scientific change. Chronicles the discovery and cloning of Woolly Mammoths, extinct for 11,000 years.

“The woolly mammoth tusk is just the tip of the iceberg in this haunting excavation.” – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter.

Winner: Special Jury at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for four international awards including Best Documentary (Swiss Film Prize), and Best Documentary Feature (Sarasota Film Festival).

Documentary / 2018 / English Plus Others w/English subtitles / 112 minutes / Color / A film by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev.

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Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story Of American Gangster

Premiered at The Roxy, NYC on May 19, 2025, Pusherman is the true story of Harlem dope dealer Frank Lucas and how crime and ghetto culture entered popular culture.

As told by the man himself, Pusherman is the real-life story of Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope-dealer who migrated north from a rural southern town to become a Harlem based gangster of the highest order. He could not read but he built an empire that changed the culture in Harlem and across NYC. He is, among many other things, known as the guy who smuggled pure heroin from Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle” into the U.S. inside the coffins of dead GI’s flown back from Vietnam.

‘If there really is a true cultural story of Frank Lucas, this is it. The inclusion of how the story became myth and a brand is profound. Congratulations! Really something to be proud of and I am personally touched to be in it.” – Mark Jacobson, the journalist who broke the story in New York Magazine.

Narrated by Mark Jacobson, who wrote the original story for New York magazine, that the hit movie, “American Gangster,” was based on, and produced by Legs McNeil, award-winning best-selling author and film documentarian, with extra commentary by Daily News and New York Magazine crime writer, Michael Daly. Pusherman will reveal the spectacular story of heroin and Vietnam and the cultural phenomena known as Blaxploitation films in the 1970’s.

It’s those who knew Frank, the man himself, who pull back the curtain on life in Harlem in the 1970s [and] it brilliantly presents the richness of the tapestry it weaves as a snapshot of New York City culture in the 1970s.” – T. Kakadelis, The Sound View.

Pusherman explores Lucas’ life through the lens of the lore surrounding Black gangsters”. – Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter.

The ending further explores and reveals the epidemic of police corruption in New York City during the 1970’s– all the subjects and stories the $255 million grossing film that “American Gangster” left out.

2024 / Documentary / MVD Visual / 80 Minutes / English / A film by Legs McNeil.

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THE RIVER: A SONGWRITER’S STORIES OF THE SOUTH

“Set your controls for the heart of the South – a splendid effort. Highly Recommended.” – Mark Hudson, The Sound View.

The visionary new film The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South is unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Starring Nashville-based cosmic roots band Coyote Motel, it’s a music and performance movie, but it’s also a cultural history, a memoir, and a psychedelic experience. In 10 songs and stories, The River explores the lives, lore, and locales along three great rivers of the American South—the Mississippi, the Cumberland, and the Tallahatchie.

The film has already been selected for multiple festivals, and has won awards for Best Experimental Film and Best Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack recording was released on March 19, 2024 when the movie has its hometown premiere at Nashville, Tennessee’s historic Belcourt Theatre.

The crowdfunded, 68-minute feature was conceived and written by Coyote Motel bandleader Ted Drozdowski and directed by Richie Owens of Parlor Films, and is also a collaboration of more than 15 Nashville independent artists, including light art creators Darling Lucifer Productions and the aerialists of Suspended Gravity Circus.

Starting at Nashville’s Cumberland and weaving south along the Mississippi and Tallahatchie, The River introduces viewers and listeners to muleskinners, coal miners, riverboat gamblers, freedom fighters, and the late musical giants of North Mississippi blues. It also essays the omnipotent, timeless magic of the rivers themselves, and the cities and rural outposts along their endlessly flowing waters, with grace, beauty, and surprise.

THE SONGS INCLUDED IN THE PERFORMANCE ARE:

  • Tupelo – 6:01
  • Black Lung Fever – 4:46
  • Keep Me In Your Mind – 3:17
  • The River Runs Forever – 3:27
  • Long Distance Runner – 7:11
  • Trouble – 3:02
  • Homegoing – 4:09
  • Still Among the Living – 4:30
  • Down in Chulahoma – 3:55
  • The River – 6:16

2024 / 68 Minutes / Documentary / A film by Richie Owens

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