Welcome to GROWP
Growp (Grow productions) is the production company arm of GROW. The beauty of GROW is that it employs a team of Theatre, Film & TV and Arts professionals who want to bring their professional practice and skills into training and also continue to work in the Theatre, Film and TV Industry.
Growp creates & produces exciting, unique and engaging work that celebrates and demonstrates the talents of the team it works with. It offers opportunities and platforms for work to be seen and heard both in Theatre, TV and Film.
Current Projects
- Before After and After That
- Not Coming In
- Ladies in Waiting
- Kurt Van Rimmer
- Oddinary People
- Maid Marians
Before After and After That
A fantasy love story that tasted too good...
(24 mins Short Film)
- Growp & Studio Schoque
- Produced & Directed by Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque
- Written by Carolina Giammetta
- Shot in Cotswolds & London July 2006
A feelgood, very British, sweet romantic comedy that brings fantasy, dreams & desire to life!
It was first screened at The Curzon Cinema, Soho on 15th October 2007. It is now being be entered into both UK and International Film Festivals and will hopefully be used to raise finance for other projects and as well as developing a feature length version.
It's a lovely film - a treat to watch... the Gloucestershire 16th manor house and garden were dreamy. Entertaining, witty and very watchable.
RUTH CALEB (Producer/Executive Producer, Drama Production & BBC Films)
It is a great achievement to get a film made and this one looks really good so well done for that. It is indeed a feel good movie and I am glad it had that effect on your audience.
SIMON RELPH (Skreba Creon Films)
I think you have a good film with some great laughs and you could tell that everyone must have enjoyed making it. I really enjoyed the contrast between the film footage and the film.
QWERTY FILMS
Vika, who works in development here, came back with some very positive comments.
NUMBER 9 FILMS
I felt the film worked well as a warm and sweet romantic comedy and applaud you all for making it on such a tight budget.
UKFC PREMIERE FUND
Not Coming In
(2 mins 30 seconds Short Film)
- Growp & Studio Schoque in association with Spool Films (Nottingham)
- Produced & Directed by Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque
- Written by Carolina Giammetta
- Shot in Nottingham June 08
Trevor and Becca live a very happy and uncomfortable 'oddinary' life.
Trevor enjoys being driven around by his girlfriend Becca, visiting their friends and family. However when they arrive he always decides on 'not coming in'. As she pays her flying visits, Trevor sits and waits in the car. He watches their conversations in the house and he voices what he imagines they are talking about.
NOT COMING IN was made for Virgin Media Shorts and has done extremely well. It was screened on the main screen at the BANG FILM FESTIVAL and has now been offered worldwide distribution by SHORTS INTERNATIONAL www.shortsinternational.com
Not Coming In is a suitably daft comment on modern life. Keep on trucking!
Rebecca O Brien, Producer, Sixteem Films
Congratulations on your latest project Not Coming In!
Emma Greaves, New Cinema Fund, UK Film Council
That's a delightful film... the basic device of him bitterly revoicing their conversation is gorgeous... audiences will love it - it's very funny!
Ben Blaine, Shooting People
Very good... funny. Loved it!
Simon Relph, Producer (Skreba Creon Films)
I have watched it and I thought it was great!
Simon Young Shorts International
Quotes from the Virgin Media Shorts Website:
A perfect two minute snapshot of the 21st Century, dysfunctional family. Awesome!
Wonderful - beautiful observation, sharply cut together, great cast, strangely moving and very very funny - I'm still laughing!
Cracking stuff - we all know people like that. I think I am one! A highly amusing film. I kind of feel that there is a sequel somewhere!
Hilarious! Can see this as a comedy series.
This would not be out of place as a part of a comedy feature. Excellent!
Ladies in Waiting - Brownie Reunion
- Written & produced by Carolina Giammetta & Charlotte Palmer
- Directed by Gareth Corke
Ladies in Waiting is a new character driven comedy show that premiered at the ‘Hen and Chickens’ in May 2007. The show follows the lives of twelve brownies, who in 1983 ere selected for a very special event and catches up with them in 2008 at a Brownie reunion, to see if they really did keep their promise.
Due to its success the show was promoted by Bound and Gagged comedy and played at The Pleasance Courtyard in August 2008.
Reviews:
Top 20 unmissable shows! ****STARS and on the 'HIT LIST' “ This gang sorts of the wheat from the character- comedy Chaff
The List
Excellent comedy moments..... slick, funny, professionally presented and a really good way to spend an hour during the late afternoon! ****STARS
ONEFORREVIEW.COM
If there was a badge for amusingness then the Ladies in waiting team have earned it.
The List (main review)
One of those well-produced, well-acted sketch shows!
Chortle
In Production: Kurt Van Rimmer
- Growp, Studio Schoque & Kurt Van Rimmer Production
- Produced by Carolina Giammetta, Schuman Hoque & David Shelley
- Directed by Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque
- Created & written by David Shelley
- Performed by David Shelley
- Shooting November 08
Comedy Rock Video
‘Holland's Most Famous Ex-Adult Film Star - Now living in UK!’
In Production: Oddinary People
- Growp & Studio Schoque
- Produced & Directed by Carolina Giammetta & Schuman Hoque
- Written by Carolina Giammetta
- Shooting spring 2009
Carolina and Schuman join forces with their crew once again! From the success‘ ‘Not Coming In’, ‘ODDINARY PEOPLE’ looks at characters we see and love and in every day life. Just ‘normal’ people living simple lives but behave on the ‘odd’ side of ordinary.
We capture our characters essence and inner personalities by recording snippets of their lives and how they interact. We celebrate the ‘normality’ and the mundane in the people we all know and love…. or hate. We smile as we recognise and relate to their actions and hear ourselves say ‘ I know people that do that!’
In Production: Maid Marians
‘They took from the dads to give to the mums’
- Written by Carolina Giammetta & Penn Linfield
- A screenplay/series in development with Growp & Spool Films
‘When I left college... if I’d have known by the age of 30, I’d be a single mum, still in Nottingham, in rented accommodation, doin’ crap promo work to letchy men and smelly students... dressed as a tropical fruit... I’d of topped myself!’
When four Nottingham women, facing their thirties as struggling single parents, are placed in a desperate situation, they reveal just how powerful and resourceful they can be. We follow their journey of survival and friendship as they yearn to find the ‘perfect’ future.
Carolina and Penn went to Cannes and came back with a little bit of development money for Maid Marians. It was originally written as a screenplay and has received some great feedback from the Industry. After sitting on the project for while they now intend to bring it back to life and develop it for TV.
