Magma Pictures Ltd. is a film production company based in the United Kingdom, founded in 2004 by directors James Walker

James Walker (writer/filmmaker)

James Walker is a British writer and filmmaker. He lives in London and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University where he read English and received a 1st Class Honors Degree. He is a director of Magma Pictures and the Young Film Academy His first feature film Blooded, had a UK cinema...

 and Ed Boase who have been working together in the film industry for ten years. Magma Pictures is based in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. Magma Pictures' educational sister company is Young Film Academy

Young Film Academy

The Young Film Academy was established in 2004 and is based in London. Young Film Academy is the educational sister company to Magma Pictures. Young Film Academy is the UK’s leading provider of practical filmmaking programmes to young people aged 8-18. YFA works with over eighty of the UK's...

.Magma Pictures specialises in Feature films and Corporate films.

History

Founded in 2004 Magma Pictures' films have been shown in over fifty festivals worldwide and broadcast on BBC Four

BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable....

, HTV

HTV

HTV, now legally known as ITV Wales & West, is the ITV contractor for Wales and the West of England, which operated from studios in Cardiff and Bristol. The company provided commercial television for the dual-region 'Wales and West' franchise, which it won from TWW in 1968...

, Canal+

Canal+

Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is 80% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted...

 and Rai 1, among others. Their awards include Best UK Short (Raindance Film Festival

Raindance Film Festival

Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates from various cities including: London, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin and Brussels...

), Cocotte-Minute Grand Prix (Brest International Film Festival) and Best Director (Capalbio International Film Festival). James Walker (director) graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

 in 2001. He was nominated for the London Writer's Award in 2002 and won the King's Cross New Writing Award, 2004. He has since been commissioned by the National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

 and is presently writing for television. Ed Boase (director) graduated from the London College of Printing in 2001. His latest short film Home Video was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the prestigious Rushes Short Film Festival and won the Silver Melies award at the Leeds International Film Festival

Leeds International Film Festival

The Leeds International Film Festival is the largest film festival in England outside London. Held in November at various venues throughout Leeds, West Yorkshire it shows over 200 films from around the world, commercial and independent....

 2006. Magma Pictures first feature film is Blooded

Blooded (film)

Blooded is a 2011 British independent horror/thriller film. Written by James Walker, and produced by Magma Pictures and Ptarmigan ACP, it is the directorial debut of Edward Boase...

 which received UK theatrical and DVD realise in April 2011.

Films

Magma's films include:

• Blooded
  Blooded (film)
  Blooded is a 2011 British independent horror/thriller film. Written by James Walker, and produced by Magma Pictures and Ptarmigan ACP, it is the directorial debut of Edward Boase...
  
  
• Taboo
• One Small Leap
• Trigger
  Trigger (film)
  Trigger is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2010. Directed by Bruce McDonald, the film stars Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement....
  
  
• Into Swans
• ctrl+z
• Home Video

Awards

• Best Newcomer Rushes Short Film Festival 2006
• Silver Melies Leeds International Film Festival 2006
• Winner, Best UK Short, Raindance 2003
• Winner, Cocotte-Minute Prix, Brest Film Festival 2003
• HTV Award, Brief Encounters 2002
• Best Director, Capalbio International Film Festival 2003
• F.I.C.E Award, Capalbio International Film Festival 2003
• Runner-up, Aprille Award, Milan Film Festival 2002

Blooded

In June 2008, directors Ed Boase and James Walker

James Walker (writer/filmmaker)

James Walker is a British writer and filmmaker. He lives in London and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University where he read English and received a 1st Class Honors Degree. He is a director of Magma Pictures and the Young Film Academy His first feature film Blooded, had a UK cinema...

 completed principal photography on their first feature film, Blooded

Blooded (film)

Blooded is a 2011 British independent horror/thriller film. Written by James Walker, and produced by Magma Pictures and Ptarmigan ACP, it is the directorial debut of Edward Boase...

, set on the Isle of Mull

Isle of Mull

The Isle of Mull or simply Mull is the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute....

 in Scotland

Scotland

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. The film, made alongside collaborator Nick Ashdon (Ptarmigan ACP), had a UK release on 1st April 2011 by Revolver Entertainment.