Wednesday 19 March 2008

A new dawn for Therapy Films



Much like Mark Twain, Therapy Films would like to clarify that reports of their demise have been grossly exaggerated…partly by us, for which we are very sorry.

In fact, they are very much alive and kicking, with a Creative Circle Gold and a BTAA win for the Malcolm Venville and Sean de Sparengo directed Reel favourite ‘Kill the Gun’ recently in the bag.

The confusion arose from re-structuring that occurred during the renewal of a 10-year lease on their premises in Market Street – they’ve moved up in the world and are now on the 3rd floor - that saw the departure of partners Guy Manwaring and Mark Denton to pursue their own projects.

The new streamlined Therapy, with founder Malcolm Venville solely at the helm, has retained some unique and award-winning talents in its roster, including Colin Gregg, Christian Bevilacqua, Mick Rudman, The Shammasian Brothers and Sean de Sparengo.

Venville said of the recent re-structuring, ‘[it] has given us an opportunity to prune our director roster and return to the good old days when we were a straight-forward, no-nonsense production company known for creating striking commercials.’

Indeed, the former Reel Ones to Watch and extremely talented Bevilacqua has recently achieved recognition for his Mastercard spot and Venville himself has made waves with his hard hitting Reel Hotspot for BBC 2’s ‘White Season’.


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