WE ARE
Female lens. Untamed stories.
We develop bold, character-driven stories from all over the world, and we build the international infrastructure they need to get made. This is our home for refined, compelling, moving entertainment about people on the outside and on the move.
Our slate includes projects with Rope Ladder Fiction UK, Amazon MGM Studios (UAE), Dubai Film and Games Commission, Sky TV and the BBC, with co-production partnerships across UK and Gulf Territories. Development includes feature co-productions across the UK and Vietnam with BFI Vision Awardee Jude Goldrei at Lunar Lander Films, and Anderson Le at East Films and FaF Films UK and Ireland.
Productions
FROG
Post-Production
Short film.
IVF-weary Cory struggles to accept that her infertility journey is going nowhere, whilst her zoologist researcher sister is about to lose her job. It’s only in the depths of their desperation that these sisters are forced to unite, create the positive result they both desire, and possibly save the amphibian apocalypse at the same time.
A proof of concept short film starring Laura Whitmore and Evanna Lynch- a love letter to family and science, a taste of the roller-coaster and lived infertility experience through a new lens.
Writer: Rebecca Crookshank
Director: Sophie King
Producers: Rebecca Crookshank for Mammal Haus, Paula McGann for FaF Films and Hannah Lee for Rope Ladder Fiction
People
Rebecca Crookshank is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, director, actor and producer. Her writing has become a prominent voice with audiences around the globe, such as the BBC and Channel 4 News. Rebecca has a unique story; at 17, she joined the Royal Air Force, this experience as a young airwoman working in radar and in a predominantly male environment informed her writing of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, an award-winning solo play published by Bloomsbury, which premiered in Edinburgh, toured the UK, then received its international premiere on 42nd Street, New York. Shortlisted for a Liberty Human Rights Arts Award, four Broadway World nominations. Her Channel 4 News interview on military harassment received 5 million views and was selected as one of the three playwrights on attachment to the Old Vic on their Old Vic 12 programme. She is a BAFTA Connect inaugural member with multiple British Council artistic residencies in Vietnam and a guest residency at Alserkal Arts Foundation UAE resulting in an invitation for a Golden Talent Visa. Her body of work has been funded by the BBC, Sky TV, Arts Council England and is inspired by universal womanhood, cross-cultural friendship, and her global research which is rooted and sparked by her Scottish traveller showfolk heritage.
Rebecca is the founder of Off The Grid, an artist salon for Gulf-based artists hosting curated creative salons in a secret location. This year Rebecca was selected as a member of the inaugural Amazon MGM UAE / NFTS / Dubai Film and Games Commission cohort with Mammal Haus original series ’SPIDERZ’. Currently she's in post-production on a short film she's written and Mammal Haus has produced called Frog, and working on the move across Vietnam in development on a feature film with Lunar Lander films directed by Ham Tran and building a slate of collaborative projects with Paula McGann at Faf Films. Perpetually stretched between systems and across time-zones, Rebecca writes and makes between what was planned but can’t be controlled, by adapting to what actually needs to shift and makes it happen.
She is represented by Adam Maskell at Curtis Brown.
More to come.
Mammal Haus can open up a space where storytelling across geographies is not about making everything universally legible, but about allowing different cultural contexts to meet each other without being simplified.
Gaith Abdhulla
Writer and Creative Producer of BAM
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Rebecca Crookshank rebecca@mammal.haus