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STAGE & SCREEN

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PRETTY PUNCHY is a fleet-footed development suite combining original storytelling with the spirit of adventure. Founded by Adam Jackson-Smith and Matt Pitts-Tucker to make funny things with serious craft, PRETTY PUNCHY specialises in new writing and comedic adaptations for stage and screen.

THE WORK

Mr Theatre Comes Home Different

Award-winning Short Film. Lyric Hammersmith.

IN DEVELOPMENT

ZOMBSKI

Feature Film. Comedy Horror. Coming soon.

Pretty Punchy Stage & Screen
Adam Jackson-Smith

ADAM JACKSON-SMITH

Adam is an actor, writer & director. He trained at RADA and has been working on Stage & Screen for over fifteen years.

Adam originated the role of Basil Fawlty in the West End production of John Cleese's Fawlty Towers: The Play and is currently working on the follow up. Other credits include Outlander, FBI: International, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, and Master Of None.

Adam directed Mr Theatre Comes Home Different, raising money for the Theatre Artists Fund in the UK. The film won a number of awards and was screened at festivals around the world.

Adam loves the mountains, good coffee, and occasionally throwing himself off things.

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Matt Pitts-Tucker

MATT PITTS-TUCKER

Matt has over 20 years experience working in television and film, as a producer/director for national broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5.

Matt has produced a diverse range of content including primetime documentary, factual entertainment & current affairs programmes, as well as producing highly successful charity campaigns for Comic Relief and Children in Need.

Matt has made several shorts and an independent feature film. He also produced the award-winning Mr Theatre Comes Home Different.

Matt often dabbles in high octane past-times such as gardening and running short distances.

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Mr Theatre Comes Home Different
Mr Theatre Comes Home Different

In 2021, during the Covid lockdown, we worked with Pulitzer-nominated playwright, Will Eno, to adapt his stage monologue for the screen and created MR THEATRE COMES HOME DIFFERENT; raising funds for theatre freelancers in the UK.

Filmed over two days at the Lyric Hammersmith London, with twelve actors and a skeleton crew, under strict Covid protocols, the film celebrates everyone who works in theatre — both onstage and off — during the pandemic and beyond.

Lyric Hammersmith — filming Mr Theatre Comes Home Different

BEHIND THE SCENES

Mr Theatre Comes Home Different — Film Poster

AWARDS & SELECTIONS

  • Winner of 'Best Lockdown Film' — Screen Culture Film Festival 2021
  • Winner of 'Best Short Film' — Screen Power Film Festival 2021/22
  • Winner of 'Best Acting Ensemble' — Indie Shorts Awards Cannes
  • Nominated for Best Acting Ensemble — The British Short Film Awards 2021
  • Official Selection — Venezia Shorts Italy, Liverpool Film Festival, London Lift-Off Festival, Berlin Lift-Off Festival, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wonderous Stories Film Festival & Hollywood Shorts Fest

CREDITS

Written by
Will Eno
Directed by
Adam Jackson-Smith & David Symmons
Produced by
Michael Cusick, Adam Jackson-Smith & Matt Pitts-Tucker
Cast
Charlotte Arrowsmith, Jenna Boyd, Saffron Coomber, Bethan Cullinane, Michael Cusick, Naeem Hayat, Eliza Hunt, Adam Jackson-Smith, Shelley King, Jonathan Livingstone, Milo Twomey & Samantha Womack
Mr Theatre Comes Home Different — on set at the Lyric Hammersmith

Let's set the stage again. Together.

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ZOMBSKI

IN DEVELOPMENT — FEATURE FILM — COMEDY HORROR

It's beginning to look a lot like... Zombies?

A zombie outbreak on a school ski trip to the Highlands at Christmas?

Frostbite is the least of their worries.

School bus
Ominous mountain
Ski gondola
Zombie
Christmas resort
Zombski skis

ZOMBSKI is set around the reopening of an abandoned ski resort in the Scottish Highlands. Originally built in the 1980s against a backdrop of dayglo synthetic fabrics and disco synth beats, Glen Beira mysteriously closed as quickly as it opened. And as the fabrics faded and disco died, this hidden powder playground was forgotten for a generation.

Now, just in time for Christmas, Glen Beira is opening up again and one lucky group of students from 'Second Chances' Pupil Referral Unit have been gifted an all-expenses paid trip to get out of the city and into the wilderness.

Unfortunately, there's a reason the mountain has been dormant for so long; this is the throne of Old Mother Winter — 'Beira' in the ancient tongue.

She's awake again.
And she'll protect her kingdom at all costs.

Zombies. On skis.

All they want for Christmas is you.

Zombski skis
Ski Beira — Piste Map

POW. POW.

Retro ski jump
Retro ski jump with husky
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