PRETTY
PUNCHY
STAGE & SCREEN
The gloves are off...
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
Award-winning Short Film. Lyric Hammersmith.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Feature Film. Comedy Horror. Coming soon.
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.
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.
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.
Let's set the stage again. Together.
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IN DEVELOPMENT — FEATURE FILM — COMEDY HORROR
A zombie outbreak on a school ski trip to the Highlands at Christmas?
Frostbite is the least of their worries.
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.