Spanner Films
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| Company type | Film production company |
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| Industry | Independent film |
| Founded | London, UK (1997) |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Key people | Franny Armstrong Lizzie Gillett |
| Products | Documentary film |
| Website | spannerfilms |
Spanner Films is a small London-based documentary company founded by film director Franny Armstrong in 1997.
The company's earliest production was McLibel (1997/2005), a documentary film about David Morris and Helen Steel, a postman and a gardener, who took on McDonald's and won the case, with courtroom reconstructions by Ken Loach. Drowned Out (2002) follows an Indian family who decide to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam.[citation needed]
The Age of Stupid, a drama-documentary-animation hybrid film about anthropogenic climate change, was released in 2009. The film was crowd funded via a bespoke website which raised £1.5m.[1]
Pie Net Zero, a comedic short film about climate change and biosequestration efforts in South West England written by Armstrong and comedian Tom Walker and featuring Walker’s character Jonathan Pie, was released in 2020.[2]
