Prescience Film Finance Information

Prescience is a unique, integrated media company focusing on film production, marketing and distribution. Prescience aims to provide the most appropriate financing options to producers. These range from development funding and equity finance through to debt and P&A. With a specialist management team that spans media banking, corporate finance and the production, marketing, sales and distribution of quality commercial filmed entertainment, Prescience has established an expertise in the independent film financing sector that provides it with a unique access to product and a business model that significantly minimises risk whether the investment is debt or equity. Prescience was co-founded in 2005 by Tim Smith and Paul Brett, who each have over 20 years of experience in the film industry. Since then it has financed a number of recent British films, co-productions and international productions which include: Julian Fellowes’ From Time to Time starring Dame Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Hugh Bonneville; Oliver Parker’s Dorian Gray, starring Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Ben Chaplin; Bernard Rose’s Mr. Nice, starring Rhys Ifans and Chloë Sevigny; Daniel Barber’s Harry Brown, starring two-time Academy Award® winner Sir Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer; Tony Goldwyn’s Betty Anne Waters, starring two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell and Minnie Driver; and, Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson’s St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, David Tenant and Gemma Arterton.