Meet the team

Director of

Photography

With 25 years industry experience, Kevin has worked as a cameraman and DOP, on numerous TV series and corporate films across the world. He has worked for the BBC, CNN, FT, CNBC, Channel 5, recently DOP for their "Jewel of the South" series. He's worked with names such as Hugh Grant, Angelina Jolie, Will.i.am, Matt Damen and Roger Federer.

Kevin Early

Writer & Producer

A playwright turned screenwriter and producer, Rowena has won multiple awards for her short films. With a corporate project management background at Virgin Media working with Sky, she has run and sold several successful businesses. Credits include Unexplained Island, The Real Miss Havisham, Expedition Sumatra and Secret of the Lost Grail.

Rowena Amos www.rowenaamos.co.uk

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Director & Editor

With an extensive background in both directing and editing in unscripted for over twenty years, he's worked on live TV, documentaries, online and commercials. He's worked with talent such as David Attenborough, Steve Backshall, Simon Sharmar, Michel Roux, Paul McGann and Davina McCall. Clients include BBC, CH4, Nat Geo, FT and Google.

Richard Topping

Wardrobe &

Continuity

Angelina Grimshaw

With a first class degree in fashion, Angelina has a natural sense of style and keen eye for detail. When she isn't on set she also works as a professional musician.

Production

& Social Media

Manager

Hanna Nixon

Hanna is one of those rare people that can turn her hand to multiple jobs. She works as our Production Assistant and Social Media Manager, she's works as a professional actress.

Sound Operator

Adam Gutch

With 25 years industry experience, Adam is an award winning Sound Operator and we often work with his partner Chu-Li Shewring for our sound design.

Editor

David Veltman

David is a brilliant editor and grader with over 20 years extensive experience working in commercial, broadcast and digital. He is also a copywriter, filmmaker and voice artist.

Stills Photographer

Gianpaolo Giancovich

G brings his photographic artistry to provide our set stills, and bring out PR and marketing to life. He works full time as a professional photographer on the Isle of Wight.

Legal

Tony Morris

Tony has incredible experience in the film and TV industry and author of 'The Filmmakers Guide'. He also lectures at Portsmouth University and Raindance Film Festival.

About us

We just love telling great stories, and if it's anything strange, historical or paranormal then we're really interested! We're experienced, spirited, creatives from London and the Isle of Wight, who have joined forces to make a new "super team". Our passion is in producing bold, unscripted and thought-provoking content.

We also offer services from script-writing, treatments and pitches to supplying a full crew. Be it directing, producing, cinematography...and we have post production covered too. Editing, VFX, sound design or colouring. We can also cover PR and marketing for launch and distribution. You name it, we can do it.

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Our story

Our team first met online over lockdown in 2020 through Director's Cut at Southwark Playhouse. With lots of spare time, it proved to be the perfect opportunity to make lots of short films. Once restrictions were lifted, they immediately embarked on a short supernatural thriller called 'Strange Waters'.

The assembled crew all instantly hit it off, and so further projects grew organically from there. We are very fortunate to have such a talented, reliable and good humoured team, which make all our projects great fun to work on. So '9 of Cups' made sense as a name for the production company. After all, it's a tarot card with a lot of significance!

Rowena works as Producer, and with a background in both corporate and small business she knows how to deliver projects, on time and within budget. She's also a great communicator, making sure all are kept informed and motivated in the process! Kevin Early is a highly talented DOP/Director and combined with the talents of Director/Editor, Richard Topping, bring a wealth of industry experience to the table.

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