Vertigo Films is a UK Film and Distribution company founded in 2002 by Allan Nibble and James Richardson. The following year Rupert Preston and Nick Love joined and became partners. The company’s mission is to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema and since inception it has produced 28 films and distributed a further 35. The Films span a range of genres and audience taste and include the box office smash hit
Street dance 3D, the biggest independent UK DVD of all time
The Football Factory, the multi award winning
Monsters, Vertigo co-production
Ajani (nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film), smash hit family film
Horrid Henry The Movie, audience favourite
The Sweeney, and the hottest director of the moment, Nicolas Winding Rein's first English-language film,
Bronson.In 2013 Vertigo has eight films in production including
Pudsey The Movie – a co-production with Simon Cowell’s company Sysco,
Walking on Sunshine – a feel good musical in partnership with IM Global and
Monsters: The Dark Continent from hot new director Tom Green.
Championing new talent has been key to Vertigo Film’s production strategy and it continues to pride itself on being at the forefront of breaking new talent, including Tom Hardy (Bronson), Scoot McNairy (Monsters), Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist), Gareth Edwards (Monsters), Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton), Ben Gregory (All Stars) and Nicolas Winding Rein (Bronson).
Vertigo also owns a successful post production company in Berlin,
The Post Republic and is a partner in sales company
Protagonist Pictures along with Film 4 and Ingenious.