Opiate Films
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Opiate Films (or 'Opiate of the People Films') was created in 2000 in reaction to the British film industry's output of nothing but period and gangster films.
Running as more of a collective of filmmakers, rather than a formal company, it took 3 years for the company to raise the capital to buy its own equipment, members are now free to create films, music promos and TV shows of their own devising, whether live-action, animated, CGI-heavy or musical. With 15 members who work on films regularly, and around 25 members who pitch in occasionally, it is one of the fastest growing film companies in the UK, and the only one to work in its unique way.
Members are not picked because of impressive CVs or previous experience, but of excitement and enthusiasm for film. Some come burdened with ideas, looking for an outlet, whilst others have a particular field they want to work in. Either way, nobody is turned down if they are willing to pitch in, whether helping on other people's films, or providing their own ideas.
Early Retirement, one of Opiate Film's latest shorts was featured at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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