Festival Film & TV is an independent UK based production company founded in 1992 by award-winning producer Ray Marshall.
The company is best known for producing The Cookson Dramas for ITV. Between 1992 and 2001, Festival produced 15 mini-series, based on books by bestselling novelist Catherine Cookson

Catherine Cookson

Dame Catherine Cookson DBE was a British author. She became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers...

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The Cookson Dramas became one of ITV’s major brands, regularly bringing in audiences over 12 million and attracting the cream of Britain’s acting talent, including Catherine Zeta Jones, Sean Bean

Sean Bean

Shaun Mark "Sean" Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean is best known for playing Boromir in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and, previously, British Colonel Richard Sharpe in the ITV television series Sharpe...

, Robson Green

Robson Green

Robson Green is an English actor, singer–songwriter and presenter.-Biography:Robson Golightly Green was born in Hexham, Northumberland, and baptised in Bethel Chapel, , and named in Northeast tradition as first son after family surnames: Robson is his grandmother's maiden surname, while Golightly...

, Ray Stevenson

Ray Stevenson

Raymond Leslie "Ray" Stevenson was a writer and political activist in Canada. He was an executive member of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People and Associate Editor of Northstar Compass - the organization's organ publication. Stevenson wrote articles for and...

, Emilia Fox

Emilia Fox

Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an award-winning English actress, known for her role as Dr. Nikki Alexander on BBC crime drama Silent Witness, having joined the cast in 2004 following the departure of Amanda Burton. She also appears as Morgause in the BBC's Merlin beginning in the programme's second...

, Nigel Havers, Samantha Bond, Denholm Elliott, Emily Mortimer, and Bob Peck.

FESTIVAL FILMS, Festival’s feature film arm is involved in the development and production of feature films.

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Half Broken Things - TV Movie (2007)

Man Dancin' (2004)

A Dinner Of Herbs - TV mini-series, 5 episodes (2001)

The Secret - TV movie (2000)

Tilly Trotter - TV series (1999)

Colour Blind - TV mini-series, 2 episodes (1998)

The Round Tower - TV movie (1998)

The Rag Nymph - TV mini-series (1997)

The Moth - TV movie (1997)

The Wingless Bird - TV series (1997)

The Gambling Man - TV series (1996)

The Glass Virgin - TV mini-series (1996)

The Girl - TV Movie (1995)

The Tide Of Life - TV mini series (1995)

The Cinder Path

The Cinder Path

The Cinder Path is a 1972 novel by Catherine Cookson and a 1994 film directed by Simon Langton and based on the novel.-Plot introduction:In the English countryside of the early 20th Century the working-class main protagonist must deal with a cruel and tyrannical father and later with a romantic...

- TV series (1994)

The Dwelling Place - TV series (1994)

The Man Who Cried - TV movie (1993)

Get the Picture - Children's TV quiz show, 65 episodes (1993)