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In its third year, Coffee & Cigarettes worked on a greater number of theatrical releases, including Rams and The Queen of Ireland, impressing our judges for crafting an “emotional reaction”. Icelandic hit Rams saw the company win its first major trailer prize at the GTA Awards and led to it working again with distributor Soda Pictures on Up for Love. “The agency has a clear sense of what the film is and is true to films individually, creating very fresh trailers” enthused one judge. This year also saw the company launch its virtual reality production arm, securing a distribution deal with Samsung VR.

From producing our trailers and posters to developing our new corporate identity, Coffee and Cigarettes the film trailer agency and poster design company have become our go-to agency for many of our projects. The high level of attention C&C have devoted to our projects, clearly demonstrates their experience at both the job in hand, and looking at the bigger picture of how it will all fit and benefit the overall campaign. Their dedication, professionalism, enthusiasm and talent always makes us confident we have placed our campaigns in good and trusted hands.

I engaged Coffee and Cigarettes to provide creative services (including trailer, artwork and Sales sheet) once BEYOND was completed. I also engaged the company as our sales representative to advise me on distribution options and ultimately place the film with an international Sales Agent and UK distributor. Following a private screening of the film Tom and Edo provided a comprehensive list of comparable films, both in terms of tone and in performance. We had a meeting to establish our goal for the film and what we were ultimately looking to achieve and then Tom and Edo outlined the various options available to us and how we could position the film in the market. They are incredibly knowledgeable and seem to keep their knowledge bang up to date in terms of market trends, what the sales and distribution companies are looking for and what they will respond to. They produced a superb trailer that went through two drafts with feedback from us and guidance from Tom and Edo at each stage. The trailer, at time of writing, has achieved over 1,100,000 views on Youtube and the film is still four months from release with the Distributor marketing campaign yet to begin. The quality and variation of artwork far exceeded my expectations and I thoroughly enjoyed the process of working with Coffee and Cigarettes. While it was a very collaborative process and they took on board our feedback, they also provided strong guidance on how variations of the artwork would be received in the international market. Edo successfully placed our film with a great International Sales Agent and directly with a UK Distributor. But more than that, his guidance and advice throughout the process has been absolutely invaluable. He took the time to talk me through the pros and cons of each company and their respective offers plus the time to talk me through alternative distribution avenues available to us so I could make a fully informed decision. Overall, I couldn’t be happier with the service that Coffee and Cigarettes provided. The quality of their work is above industry standard, they are professional and committed and I always felt like our film was in safe hands.