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Wysiwyg aggregates audio-visual content for distribution via all internet means. Wysiwyg licenses internet rights to feature films, documentaries, short films, television series, and complete libraries, from all over the world.

The Internet will soon become the primary method of delivery of video to consumers the world over. Traditional methods of distribution are on the way out. Film and TV will follow the music industry, and consumers will access content primarily via the net.

Wysiwyg assesses all new content delivery services and signs revenue-share agreements with the best of them. Wysiwyg thus releases content through all new digital media outlets including internet streaming/download, TV set top box, mobile devices, cell phone networks and IPTV.

HISTORY

Wysiwyg Films was set up in 2001 with the mandate to produce a feature film, The Ultimate Truth. The film went on to win BEST FOREIGN FILM at the Long Island International Film Expo, New York, 2004. The experience of producing the film and finding distribution led Wysiwyg Films’ founder Tom Swanston to create its subsidiary Wysiwyg Distribution. Through this new company The Ultimate Truth is now on DVD release in the US and UK, and will be playing in 200 cinemas across Spain from June 16 to 23, 2006.

Wysiwyg licenses, authors, and markets broadcast quality titles. It is an established company with a strong brand identity in independent film. Wysiwyg trades in DVD sales (online and high street stores), cinematic exhibition, TV sales, and download.

DVD

A retail distribution agreement has been signed with Blackhorse Entertainment, a subsidiary of S Gold & Sons, long-established and well-known wholesalers and distributors of DVD. Through Blackhorse, the three launch titles were released 5th September 2005, and Blackhorse will

distribute all future titles.

DOWNLOAD

British Internet Broadcasting Company (BiBC) are providing Wysiwyg titles for video-on-demand download. Wysiwyg titles are the first feature films available for online download on the BiBC website.

DIGITAL CINEMA

Working with Arts Alliance, two new Wysiwyg titles will be released in UK digital cinemas this year in association with Blackhorse Entertainment.

An agreement has also been signed with CineDigital, who will release selected Wysiwyg titles across 200 digital cinemas in Spain, even as they expand into other European countries later in the year.

OVERSEAS SALES

TV rights to one of Wysiwyg’s titles have been sold to HBO for 12 territories in Europe, with others to follow.

PRODUCTION

Wysiwyg continues to develop and produce feature films, documentaries, animation and TV series.

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Tom Swanston

Managing Director

Founder of Wysiwyg. Trained as an anthropologist, but soon after university transferred to film to produce a comedy feature. Has worked in accounts, marketing, insurance, and publishing. As a philanthropist and cinephile Tom has a desire to see independent film shown to the widest possible audience, while filling a huge gap in the market for independent film.

Interests: people, exercise, art, evolutionary theory

Skills: bagpipes, juggling, spoonerisms

Films: Good Will Hunting, Shawshank Redemption, The Believer, Leon, LA Confidential

cauri jaye

Operations Director

A total all-rounder, from web-design to cinematography to education to management. An established producer, and accomplished writer and actor. Learned his trade in the Caribbean islands producing for tv, multimedia presentations, web sites, print and radio. Then went to Hollywood for a brief stint before moving to Paris for several years to run dot coms, doing project management and working in design. He then returned to LA and eventually London to produce films. To date he has produced four feature films and helped set up a multi-film deal to produce 19 films over 6 years.

Interests: technology, quantum physics, memetics

Skills: martial arts, ability to do any role on a film set

Films: The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future (trilogy), Guys and Dolls, 8mile, Run Lola Run

Andrew Swanston

Finance Director

A general manager with over thirty years experience in the retail, publishing, and consumer goods sectors. Has also been responsible for businesses in Scandinavia and Ireland. Has worked in large corporate environments and in SME’s, in the public and private sectors, and has experience of start-ups, retail roll-outs, corporate sales and acquisitions, closures, and flotation. Has broad operational, strategic and financial management experience.

Interests: books, golf, gardening

Skills: number-crunching, general knowledge

Films: The Magnificent Seven, Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The English Patient

Get in touch

email: info@wysiwygfilms.com

snailmail: PO Box 1100, Woking GU21 4WX, UK

fax: too old a technology, sorry