MISSION STATEMENT
Based in London, Gold Rush Pictures is an independent financier & producer of bold and singular concepts in Film, TV & Animation (Fiction & Non-Fiction). Gold Rush has several compelling projects in various stages of production. Its first film, ‘Club Zero’, was selected to screen in Competition in Cannes (2023).
With cooperation at the core of his ethos - with the best artists, talents and professionals of the industry - Gold Rush aim to support and inscribe itself in the great auteur tradition of storytelling via film.
PROJECTS
Club Zero
(Selected to screen in Competition in Cannes, 2023)
A film by Jessica Hausner, with with Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein, Mathieu Demy, Amir El-Masry.
Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class. She instructs that eating less is healthy. The other teachers are slow to notice what is happening and by the time the distracted parents begin to realise, Club Zero has become a reality.
The Island
(In Production)
Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War, Ida), the Island is inspired by true events and follows an attractive American 1930s couple who turn their back on civilisation to build their own private paradise on a deserted island and live off the land. But after a millionaire passing by on his yacht inadvertently turns them into a tabloid newspaper sensation, a self-styled countess arrives out of the blue with her two strange lovers with plans to take over the island and build a luxury hotel.
This larger-than-life European ‘countess’ and her entourage soon begin to threaten the Eden that the couple has built and battle lines are quickly drawn. Psychological warfare ensues as seduction and jealousy descend into sexual infidelity, betrayal, and eventually murder—at exactly the same time, nature itself turns against these island interlopers.
(In Production - Documentary)
Bipolar Disorder
Everyone knew that Russia was ruled by a paranoiac. A man ready to detonate a nuclear bomb to secure power. The Third World War was expected. How did the world end up on the verge of destruction?
This is a story that happened in the late 1940s and 1950s. In this documentary, Stalin, Truman, Churchill, Orwell, Oppenheimer and others come to life on your screens to tell the true story of how the world came close to an end and what it took to prevent it.
The Last Palace
(In Development)
A story of friendship & betrayal between British King George V and his cousin and ‘heavenly twin’ Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia.
What if the early 20th Century’s wave of revolutions had spread to the UK and the monarchy was overthrown?
The Night in Lisbon
(In Development - Rights Acquired)
A present-day refugee road movie based on the classic novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
The Fatal Eggs
(In Development)
An animated futuristic drama based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel.
1923, Chaplin and Grey sign the contract for The Gold Rush - charliechaplinarchive.org
Chaplin vs Chaplin
(In Development)
Based on a true story, a tale of light and many shadows about Cinema’s greatest genius.