slingshot had some really great profiles in both The Guardian and Variety.
VARIETY
June 23 2006
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117945721?categoryId=13&cs=1

THE GUARDIAN
June 28 2006
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1807557,00.html

from Screen Daily
www.screendaily.com

Slingshot, a new UK-based digital film production and distribution company, has announced plans to finance, produce and distribute a slate of 10 low-budget feature films over the next three years. Arvind Ethan David, Rachel Connors and Thomas Hoegh have founded the company, which will be based at Ealing Studios. David previously served as managing director at production company Ruby Films and also founded digital animation studio Hahabonk; Connors previously worked at Scorpio Films on films including Dear Frankie and also was an assistant agent at Artists Rights Group; Hoegh, who will serve as non-executive director of Slingshot, is chairman of Arts Alliance Productions and is on the board of LoveFilm and Arts Alliance Media.

Financing has been secured from media investors Arts Alliance Productions and the Creative Capital Fund. Slingshot said it will offer a profit-share production finance model allowing creative and technical professionals to get reduced fees but a percentage of producer’s gross participation.

Slingshot will majority finance the films, be shot and post-produced digitally, distributed through digital cinemas and video-on-demand, and marketed using the internet. “We will explicitly use the freedoms afforded by the digital revolution up and down the value chain to make better films and deliver them more efficiently,” David said in a statement. “We want to be creatively and commercially responsible for the films we make. We want to be held accountable for finding and serving the audience for our films. By producing and self distributing our films we are making that our challenge.”

Slingshot will shoot its first feature in late summer 2006 followed by the second project starting in autumn 2006. Collaborators on the initial slate include Ashclin Ditta, co-creator of The Catherine Tate Show, Vito Rocco, director of Suburban Shootout, and Russian Dolls producer Matthew Justice.

The initial slate includes crime drama and class study Collision, written by Dominic Leyton based on his play, directed by Gary Love based and co-produced by Justice and Oliver Milburn. Also on tap is family drama Faintheart, written by David Lemon and directed by Rocco, broken marriage comedy French Film, written by Ditta and directed by Jackie Oudney; and The Real Gavin Reed, a psychological thriller to mark the directorial debut of writer Adam Forgash.
 

Rachel is speaking for the first time. For those of you confused by this, your previous conversations have been with her automated voice response system.

This monumental occasion is on the 24th of June at the ‘Test Seminar 2006, where she will be talking on ‘The Relevance of Script writers training and script development’.

Yes it’s that time of the year. With the sun finally out, the reanimated humans hang out in parks and the film industry sit indoors with the vampires, werewolves and other bloodsucking monsters of the conference circuit. We are delighted that our very own Arvind David is talking at both the ‘Screening the Future’ conference at the London Business School- www.screendaily.com/screeningthefuture and at the ‘Screenwriters Festival’ at Cheltenham Film Studios-Screenwriters Festival this month.

Like all proud families you will see us at the back heckling him and throwing fruit . Please come and join.

I’ll be right back…………………………….

Hi everyone! So today Arvind was trying to convince us ALL that blogs are just taking over the world and that everyone wants to know about what we do in the office to get these films off the ground. I don’t know if that’s true but I’d like to find out.

So here’s my hello blog and I would love to get responses to it. Even just to find out if anyone is reading this.

This week I have been doing a combination of script reports (we get sent a huge array of scripts every week) and marketing research which we will be using to form our new and shiny marketing strategy. I’ve also been ear wigging on lots of interesting conversations in the office about casting decisions for our first film COLLISION who’s hot and who’s not ..and now we’re off to watch a load of audition tapes from some bright young things..
So I’m going to post this now, come back with some questions or just say hello. Who knows? This blog thing may be for real…Uzi