13/09/2013 - Film London Microwave’s latest feature is first UK film to use crowdsourcing platform

Debutant Jules Bishop’s Borrowed Time [+see also:
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Starring Philip Davis (Having You [+see also:
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The film is also the first in the UK to raise most of its P&A budget via a Kickstarter campaign. Oliver Kaempfer (A Road Apart) produced for Parkville Pictures under the Film London Microwave, the micro-budget filmmaking scheme set up by Film London with BBC Films, with support from Creative Skillset. High Point is handling international sales.

Adrian Wootton, Chief Executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said, “Borrowed Time is a wonderful film of which we are very proud, and the innovative and brave approach to distribution is a credit to the filmmakers Jules Bishop and Olivier Kaempfer as well as the flexible and supportive structure of the scheme.”

Borrowed Time releases on September 13, with a selected London and regional cinema roll out before DVD, iTunes, Blinkbox, Sky Store and Sky Box Office releases on September 23 and FilmFlex on October 1. Screenings can be set up through Tugg from September 13.