You can get in touch with Jonny on jonny@metfilm.co.uk or on 020 8280 9127.

Jonny Persey is an independent film producer and Managing Director of Met Film, a unique organisation based in Ealing Studios, which comprises the UK's fastest growing film school, an award-winning feature film production company, a cutting-edge post-production facility. His producing credits include Deep Water (award winning feature documentary for Pathe, FilmFour, and the UK Film Council, released theatrically in the UK in December 2006); Wondrous Oblivion (distributed in the UK in 2004 by Momentum Pictures and by Palm Pictures in the US, with Pathé handling international sales); The Pied Piper of Hutzovina (Slingshot in the UK, Arts Alliance in the US and worldwide by The Film Company); Heavy Load (Kaleidoscope, IFC, BBC Storyville); French Film (Revolver, BBC, The Works); Little Ashes (Kaleidoscope, Regent), and Men Who Swim (BBC, Arte, SVT, etc). Meanwhile, under his leadership, Met Film also produced The Infidel by David Baddiel and starring Omid Djalili and Richard Schiff (Revolver, Salt, Tribeca). We are currently in production or post production on three more films, detailed below, including Donor Unknown, Town of Runners, Sweet Swan of Avon. Having studied psychology at Cambridge University and worked for several years as a youth worker and training and organisational development consultant, Jonny Persey produced his first feature film, Everyone’s Child, in Zimbabwe in 1996. He then went on to study at the National Film & Television School where he produced a series of acclaimed short films both through the school and independently. He serves on PACT’s Film Policy Group and is a member of ACE.

Met Film Production is dedicated to the development and production of innovative and commercially driven feature films, and was formed in early 2008 incorporating the team from Jonny’s previous company, APT Films. APT’s first feature film Solomon and Gaenor was nominated for an Oscar in 2000. We are currently in production on five films and we also have ten films in development, with finance attached from various financiers as well as our own development funds.

The Met Film School provides practical filmmaking courses, based at Ealing Studios. We deliver a range of full and part-time programmes from new entrant level upwards, from 3 days to two years, including an intensive BA programme and a Post Graduate Diploma. We believe that the best way to learn filmmaking is to make films, with the support and guidance of experienced industry practitioners. Please refer to www.metfilmschool.co.uk for information.

You can get in touch with Paul on paul@metfilm.co.uk or on 020 8280 9127.

Paul Morrison has a distinguished track record as a drama and documentary maker both as a writer and a director. He was Oscar nominated for his first feature Solomon & Gaenor in the year 2000.  His second film Wondrous Oblivion has also won many awards and was released widely across the UK to much critical acclaim in 2004, and in the US in 2006.

His documentary work includes From Bitter Earth and John and Yoko for the BBC, and the Channel 4 series A Change of Mind and A Sense of Belonging. His film Like Other People won the Grierson award for Best UK Documentary.

Paul has just completed filming on his third feature film Little Ashes, starring Robert Pattison, Javier Beltran and Matthew McNulty.

Projects in development include Charlotte, the story of artist Charlotte Salomon which Paul is attached to direct, starring Samantha Morton and Marcia Gay Harden.  He has recently completed the Chicago-set screenplay Me & Big Joe, about the friendship between an older black blues musician and a young white guitarist, for production in 2009.

Paul also acts as executive producer on a number of Met Film productions.

You can get in touch with Stewart on stewart@metfilm.co.uk or on 020 8280 9127.

You can get in touch with Al on Al@metfilm.co.uk or on 020 8280 9127.

Al Morrow is an independent producer and head of Documentary at Met Film Production. Al produced Deep Water (IFC,FilmFour,Pathé) winner of the Grierson Award for the Best Cinema Documentary in 2007 and Jerry Rothwell's Heavy Load (BBC,IFC,ITVS) winner of the Audience Award at the Britdoc Festival 2008.

She is currently in production on Dylan William's Men Who Swim Together (BBC,SVT,ZDF/ARTE) a co-production with AMP Film  in Sweden and Jerry Rothwell's Town of Runners (Britdoc Channel 4 foundation).

Other films in active development include Jeanie Finlays, The Great Hip Hop Hoax (BBC Scotland); Jerry's How To Change The World which is being developed with support from the UK Film Council, and Donor 150 (More 4), a co-production with Redbird Films.  She is an Executive Producer on Sweet Swan of Avon (Arts Alliance) currently in production.

You can get in touch with Jerry on jerry@metfilm.co.uk or on 020 8280 9127.

Jerry Rothwell is a documentary filmmaker with a track record in broadcast films about arts, mental health and education. He recently moved to directing documentary features, including Deep Water (Pathe/FilmFour/UK Film Council, co-directed with Louise Osmond), about Donald Crowhursts ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race. He has just completed Heavy Load (IFC/ITVS) about a punk band made up of people with and without learning disabilities.

Directing credits prior to this included The Late George Shaw, a half hour film for Channel 4’s Art Show series, two shorts in the Modern Painters series for Channel 4 and programmes for BBC, Carlton, Channel 4, Teachers TV and the Arts Council.

Another strand of Jerry's work has been participatory production, working with people to tell their own stories on film. He played in lead role in developing Hi8us Projects improvised dramas with young people for Channel 4 and in establishing First Light, the Film Council's scheme for young filmmakers, and recently setting up a digital storytelling collaboration between marginalised communities across Europe.

Anna is Development and Production Executive at Met Film Production. She works across fiction and documentary, developing an exciting slate of creatively-driven feature films for the international marketplace. Anna comes with a wealth of experience, having worked across a diverse range of projects from low to high budget which have been shot and financed in the UK, USA, Europe and further afield.

Anna first worked with Jonny and Stewart in 2004 as their assistant at APT Films, where her roles ranged from script notes to production managing short films, including MEETING HELEN, directed by Emily Woof and shot by multi-award winning cinematographer, Chris Doyle. She moved to Working Title Films in early 2006 to assist Debra Hayward and the development department, where she worked on ATONEMENT, ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE, FROST/NIXON and many more.

Eighteen months later she moved to the London office of The Weinstein Company as junior to the VP Production and Development, Rhodri Thomas. Soon after, her job expanded to include being Harvey Weinstein’s European assistant. She fulfilled both roles simultaneously, tracking and developing projects in the UK, while at the same time travelling around Europe with Harvey to festivals and on set. She was involved in several productions including NINE, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and THE READER.

 
By summer 2009 Anna was leading development and production in the UK office, working alongside the VP Acquisitions to find new European projects for the slate. She left TWC in late 2009 and spent some time as a freelance script consultant, reading for Momentum, Cloud Eight and BBC Films, before joining Met Film in 2010.