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Exclusive: Good Gate Media, the Wales-based production company that is carving out a niche for itself in the growing interactive film market, has lined up its next two feature projects.

The company is coming off the success of The Complex, its interactive film from The Handmaid’s Tale writer Lynn Renee Maxcy that was a hit across various digital platforms earlier this year, achieving the best-selling first week launch of any interactive project.

As Deadline revealed back in June, Doctor Who star Mandip Gill and Vikings actress Georgia Hirst lead the cast of Five Dates, Good Gate’s next feature, which shot this summer and will release on 27th October on Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox and Steam.

Now, the company has set cast and financed two further inactive features, both of which begin production within the next week.

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British cannibal drama is chilling and effective. Director Alex Lightman’s fascinating apocalyptic Brit-flick Tear Me Apart is indeed a cannibal film. But it’s not one in line with the exploitative jungle shenanigans the Italian masters are revered for, nor is it a sly, blackly comic romp like Antonia Bird’s Ravenous. No, Tear Me Apart is…

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Dark British cannibal shock drama Tear Me Apart sets online release date. From fledgling UK imprint Cannibal Films comes director Alex Lightman’s acclaimed apocalyptic cannibal head trip Tear Me Apart, a strange, surreal hybrid of Lord Of The Flies and Ravenous, set in picturesque Cornish locales and grounded by an almost mystical sexuality. We have…

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In June 2014, director Alex Lightman produced his first feature film, Tear Me Apart. Here he talks about the major lessons him and his team learnt along the way.

The London Screenwriters’ Festival 2011 was where my career really began. Made to talk to the person next to me by festival creative director Chris Jones, I shook hands with screenwriter Tom Kerevan. A fateful encounter.

We started working together and soon after met cinematographer Ernesto Herrmann on a short film shoot. The three of us have been working together ever since.

In May 2013 we made the somewhat snap decision to take the plunge and produce a feature film ourselves. Having never produced something of this scale, I fully admit that the undertaking was terrifying, but with that dangerous mix of confidence, arrogance and blind optimism we figured that between the three of us, we must amount to at least one competent producer…...