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Based in the UK and Canada, we make stories with a global outlook. Wherever they begin and however they're told, we want them to connect with audiences anywhere.
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Our History
Hentucky Productions was founded in the UK in 2009 by filmmaker and technology project delivery specialist Ivan Madeira, with a focus on creating original stories and finding interesting ways to make them.
Since then, we've produced short films that have screened at festivals internationally, with our work appearing on Amazon Prime, Tubi, BBC iPlayer, Apple TV and Highball TV. In 2020, Hentucky expanded to Toronto, giving us a base on both sides of the Atlantic.
Our debut feature, Pattern, won Outstanding Feature Film Producer at the Reelworld Film Festival and Best Feature at the Roxbury International Film Festival in Boston. In 2022, the Toronto Star named Ivan one of Reelworld's "next big names of tomorrow" in independent filmmaking.
Along the way, we've collaborated with filmmakers and production companies on projects including the award-winning shorts Lifelike and Diggers, the latter co-produced with New Sparta Productions and True Perspective on feature documentary 'Our Planet, The People, My Blood.'
What We're Trying to Do
At the heart of our stories are characters that are... interesting. You'll root for them, hate them at times, forgive them or refuse to, and celebrate their victories as they search for meaning, connection and purpose.
We want to make things that spark empathy, provoke thought and start conversations. From a high-stakes thriller to a meditative drama, we're interested in going wherever the story takes us.
We work across and experiment with different formats. We like to think of an idea as more than a single film, series or piece of "content".
A story might start in one place and grow somewhere else, through shorts, digital, audio, live experiences or something we haven't thought of yet. Not everything needs to become everything. It just needs to feel like it belongs.
We have a growing international slate of projects across different formats in development.
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London, UK | Toronto, CAD