Drive By Shooting Films
We're a small Independent Production Company looking to make it Big... but it's not about the money. Seriously, if it was, we'd work a way through a more established company rather than fight against all the obstacles and challenges of the most competitive and challenging industry I have ever known.

So why go through all of that?

DBS Films is the latest incarnation of a singular and rare voice (and that's official). It isIndependent Company allows that voice to come through less scathed and less compromised. DBS Films says what it thinks and will do always do so. At times that means our output and on going projects are seen as less immediately commercial than others. So be it, as a recent 'Best Of' listing clearly shows, immediate success doesn't always mean either properly successful nor better.

DBS doesn't pander, it makes challenging and thought provoking entertainment. It rattles cages, and bothers the horses. Sometimes we're controversial, we've been banned from YouTube and Babelgum and even Larry Clarke (Kids, Bully) described an award winning film as 'a little extreme'.

On the other hand, the same films are invited to screenings around the world and even develop cult followings. The same film that's been bannedand outraged has also been used more than once for thesis source material for its purity and clear adaptation of a much praised work of classical poetry. And then there's the cult favourite, recently chosen in a 'best of' selection for festival sceening.

More than anything, DBS Films takes film seriously, not just the business but also the art, the story and the responsibility story has to do more than entertain. It isn't the fastest or easiest way to 'succeed' but, ultimately, it's the only way to succeed well.

John Le Brocq
The founding father and a real life father too. It took a while getting here and the way through wasn't what you'd call traditional, it was always an adventure. If at times it all got a little wild and reckless, it was always with purpose, always towards a better future. The road should always be an adventure, a step to the side and into the unknown because there's always more to be learned on the less travelled path.

I have stories to tell. My background is the visual arts, a Freelance Editorial Illustrator for National Newspapers I was persuaded into Fringe Theatre as Production Designer and then Co-Writer for the critically praised 'A-muse-meant'. This led to forming Cinderella Productions, work as Production Designer on my first feature film then (after Film School) a range of feature film roles including Gaffer and Art Director (but not at the same time).

Cinderella Productions began in Fringe Theatre then gravitated towards short film production. The first of which was Frozen Wastelands, shot 16mm and made within the first couple of months of film school. No, we didn't have much of a clue what we were doing but, strangely, it felt right and turned out even better.

Cinderella closed her doors as the founders, John and Sofia Olins, followed different paths to greater success in Film and Television. Between then and DBS Films, I freelanced and taught until it made sense to have a dedicated Production Company again. Now, with an extensive contact list of past collaborators, DBS is set for whatever comes our way, especially some finance.

Aside from our own projects, DBS Films is eminently suitable for a range of commissions.

Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot and Edit
With an extensive database of skills and talent we can take both small and large productions all the way from script to screen and on all formats from 35mm through HD to MiniDV and S8.

DBS Films is available for guerilla to full production and can and has worked with budgets from just a few pennies, to some thousand pounds all the way to silly money.

Script Doctor and Visual Storytelling
The two most critical elements of a film that need to be right before you even think about shooting. This is my area of specialisation. I have woked on a regular flow of short scripts for the last 7 years - not least the 10 to 15 every month for London Film Academy - and for the last couple have contributed to a range of feature length scripts in need of some work. It was a little over 2 years ago that I took my first very successful commission to re-write a feature draft.

So, while DBS Films is primarily here for its own ends, maybe along the way we can help with yours.