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First Frame by Grimm Pictures — accessible cinema-quality production, scaled to your budget.→
A Motion Picture Company
Grimm Pictures develops character-driven films across drama, horror, fantasy, and period — rooted in myth, place, and the full range of human experience. Belfast-based, serving Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the UK — with branches in Ireland and a development partner in the US.
What We Do
We produce feature films and provide bespoke production services across the UK, Ireland and the United States. What we bring to a production is craft, crew and structure — the people and the kit to shoot it, the pipeline to finish it, and the pathway to official co-production and government-backed incentives.
We take the producer role
Over 25 years across feature film, television and commercial production — a working knowledge of every stage, from development and financing through principal photography to post.
Our own crew and kit
We are on set with our own people and our own cinema camera and lens packages. Not a broker assembling a crew from scratch for every job.
A finished image, not just footage
ARRI acquisition on Super 35 and large format, carried through ARRI colour science to a final grade in Resolve Studio — the same pipeline whatever the budget.
A pathway to co-production
A Northern Ireland company for UK production and credits, an Irish operation for Section 481 and official European co-production, and a US arm for state credits. Structural, not aspirational.
A pathway to the incentives
Four government-backed programmes across three territories, up to 53% gross on qualifying spend. We structure the pathway and make the introductions. Eligibility stays project-dependent.
Scaled to your budget
The same crew and standards at every size — from a feature to a music video or brand film through First Frame.
Engagement One
Feature films.
Grimm develops and produces selectively, taking the producer role and the pathway through UK and Irish incentive structures. We're deliberately choosy about what we take on as producer.
Engagement Two
Production services.
For commercial, corporate, music video, and independent work, we provide bespoke services — cinematography, editing, and cinema camera and lens packages — without taking the producer role. You own the project. We bring the craft.
Disciplines
Northern Ireland · United Kingdom · Republic of Ireland · European Union · United States
Cinematographer with full cinema camera package — from £700 a day.
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On Set
Crews, cameras, lighting and location builds, photographed on location in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Production stills and behind the scenes.
View the full galleryCraft & Technology
The same camera and post pipeline on every project, whatever the budget — ARRI colour science from acquisition through to the final grade.
Acquisition
ARRI
Super 35 and large-format sensors.
Shot in Log C into a wide-gamut, colour-managed pipeline, so the image holds up all the way to delivery — and to the grade your distributor expects.
Post & Finishing
ARRI Film Lab
Look development and film emulation — grain, halation and gate weave, at 4K in real time.
ARRI Look Library
The full library — 87 looks, each in three strengths, for on-set look management and reference.
Genesis Pro
Photochemical look development — modelled negative and print stocks, printer points, grain and halation.
DaVinci Resolve Studio
Grade, conform and finish.
We help you execute each frame — so that you can win the story.
Selected Work
Film Finance
53%
Max Gross Rate
3
Territories
4
Programmes
Grimm Pictures is structured to access a full suite of government-backed incentives across the UK & Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the United States. These programmes are potentially financeable as production assets, subject to project-specific eligibility, certification, and lender due diligence.
Full Incentive BreakdownCo-Production
With Atlantic Way, Grimm Pictures provides a transatlantic pathway to co-production — connecting US and UK/Irish production through development, packaging, and structured access to government incentive programmes. Enquiries welcomed from co-production partners, production companies, and development collaborators.
Atlantic Way
US Development & Packaging Partner
Co-Production
UK, Ireland & Europe · Partner Productions
Incentive Summary
Technical Incentive Breakdown
We make films — we don't finance them.
Grimm Pictures is a production company and a pathway to film finance — not a financier. We help qualifying productions access official co-production status and government-backed incentives, unlocking soft money and structured capital through partners including Atlantic Way, which selectively develops and may fund projects meeting its own criteria. Grimm Pictures does not finance, guarantee, or underwrite production budgets. Our role is to produce your film and to structure the incentive pathway, supporting introductions to financiers and sales agents, covered by a production management fee. Read more.
About
Grimm Pictures Ltd. is an award-winning film and video production company headquartered in Belfast, with an office opening in Ireland and a US production arm. Founded by writer-director-producer Stephen Presley, Grimm produces feature films and provides bespoke production services — cinematography, editing, and cinema camera and lens packages — for corporate films, commercials, music videos, and independent projects across the UK, Ireland, and the United States. With 30+ festival nominations and 17 wins to its name, Grimm brings cinema-grade craft to projects of every size and budget.
With over 25 years of experience across feature film, television, and commercial production, Grimm brings a working knowledge of every stage — development, financing, principal photography, and post.
That transatlantic reach is structural, not aspirational. Grimm is built as a genuine local operator in each territory rather than working through intermediaries: a Northern Ireland company for UK production and credits, an Irish operation for Section 481 and official European co-production, and a US production arm for American incentives and state credits. Our US development partner, Atlantic Way, exists for the same reason: it develops with Grimm and is the pathway through which films are properly set up and packaged for co-production. Eligibility for any specific incentive remains project-dependent.
Grimm Pictures Ltd. was incorporated in 2022 — its founder has been producing since 2004. Stephen Presley — full credits & awards →
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Leadership
Founder — Writer, Director, Producer
Three-time Accolade Award of Merit winner and two-time winner at the Impact DOCS Awards (Documentary Feature and Viewer Impact). LA Film Festival IFS award for Best Trailer (Kaia). Winner at the I AM Film Awards, London. Official selections across London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, and Venice — 30+ nominations and 17 wins to date. IMDB →
Cindy Harris
VP Grimm Pictures — COO, Atlantic Way
Business operations executive with over 20 years of experience in management, portfolio building, and navigating major business transitions. She plays a key role in the company's operational strength, strategic growth, and long-term vision.
As featured in Variety Magazine
Development partner Atlantic Way (US)
30+ festival nominations · 17 wins
Registered company NI687511 — Northern Ireland
Contact
Whether you're a producer, collaborator, distributor, or festival programmer — we'd love to hear from you.
Before you write about funding: we're a production company, so we can't review requests for production investment. What we can do is produce your film and help structure the co-production and incentive pathway — here's how that works.
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