Bonafide News

Bonafide's multimedia feature film Nocturne, a subtle, potent tale of unlikely revenge, is in development with Film 4.0 and is scheduled to shoot spring 2013. The film brings together three fantastic talents, screenwriter Malachi Smyth (Ghost Machine), director Konstantinos Frangopolous (Blackwater) and actor and Bonafide co founder Sacha Alexander (The Gigolos). Nocturne aims to delve into our subconscious with its online world, our hopes and dreams played out against the anonymous urban space of the film’s multi storey car park location, using gameplay techniques designed by our project partner Ideonic – click for more info 

Bonafide Films have won a significant investment from North East Creative Content Fund, the latest deal by Northern Film & Media and Northstar Ventures £2.4m Finance for Business, an investment matched by private investors, which will enable business partners Margery Bone and Sacha Alexander to develop a series of high profile film and TV projects.

Bonafide’s current ventures include 'Undercover' – a sit com co-production with Steve Coogan and Henry Normal’s Baby Cow for television. 'Undercover' is co-written by Alexander, Ant & Dec writer Andy Milligan and Miranda writer Simon Dean. The company is also developing contemporary sci-fi television series Korridor by writer Jay Basu and has optioned thriller novel 'Cold Earth' for a feature adaptation by Lyndsay Shapero (writer of Bafta nominated 'Enid') and Olivier Nilsson-Julien. Meanwhile, we have just completed 'Gee Gee' – a Film 4 and UK Film Council funded short written and directed by 'Men Who Stare at Goats' creator Peter Straughan. Peter’s directorial debut is in support of a feature with Film 4 which Bonafide will produce. Bonafide is also shortly to announce a new high profile TV series co production for development with a major broadcaster.

An exciting new partnership for The Northern Writers’ Awards New Writing North and Bonafide Films are delighted to announce a new partnership in conjunction with the Northern Writers’ Awards.

This new partnership will aim to fast-track fiction projects from the awards which we feel might have potential in the fields of film and TV. The writers of any projects that are suitable for adaptation will receive the offer of an option on their work. This exciting new partnership offers a completely new type of opportunity for writers who might have generated ideas for books that might work in other forms.