Producers of Shrooms from Vertigo Films

About Vertigo:WRITER/DIRECTOR - NICK LOVE

Since graduating from Bournemouth Film School with a Distinction, Nick has written and directed five feature films. Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Football Factory, The Business, Outlaw and The Firm.

PRODUCER - ALLAN NIBLO

A Graduate of The National Film and Television School. His first film as producer was the critical and box office smash hit Human Trafficwhich was picked up by Miramax and won a BAFTA. Allan was one of the founders of Vertigo in 2002.

PRODUCER - JAMES RICHARDSON

James Richardson co-founded Vertigo in 2002 with Allan Niblo with whom he has produced the majority of Vertigo's films from The Football Factory through to the recent The Children. He is an executive producer on Bronson and the Cannes entry Ajami and is currently in production on StreetDance.

RUPERT PRESTON

Rupert Preston founded and was Managing Director of Metrodome Distribution for 5 years. He acquired and released a diverse range of quality movies including Human Traffic, Bride Of Chucky, Together(Lukas Moodyson) Tango (Carlos Saura), Chopper, Chasing Amy, Buffalo 66, Palookaville, The Daytrippers and Last Orders.Since leaving Metrodome he has been an executive producer on A Good Woman (Helen Hunt, Scarlet Johansen), Pusher 2 and 3 (Nicolas Winding Refn). For Vertigo he has executive produced The Football Factory, Its All Gone Pete Tong, The Business, Outlaw, W Δ Z andDogging - a Love story. Rupert has also produced Dirty Sanchez, Faintheart (MySpace Movie) and the upcoming Bronson Direted by Nicolas winding Refn. He oversees Vertigo's distribution activities which has released a wide range of films including The Football Factory, A Good Woman, London to Brighton and Shrooms.

ROB MORGAN

From 1990 - 2002 Rob Morgan was variously Managing Director of UBS Oconnor, Head of US Equity Derivatives Trading and Head of Internal European Hedge Fund. As well as being a director in Vertigo, he is a Private Fund Manager with interests in the Energy industries.

NIGEL WILLIAMS

Nigel studied at Loughborough University gaining a BSc in Mathematical Engineering and a PhD in Control Engineering. He then worked in the City for 20 years, training first as an Actuary before spending 15 years with the asset management business, Barclays Global Investors (BGI). He left BGI in April 2007 after serving as the CEO of the Europe & Asia business and has subsequently pursued a number of business interests across film, property and investment management.

t’s been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben’s doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest together. But what kind of boundary-breaking, envelope pushing porn can two straight dudes make? After the booze and “big talk” run out, only one idea remains-they will have sex together…on camera. It’s not gay; it’s beyond gay. It’s not porn; it’s art. But how exactly will it work? And more importantly, who will tell Anna (Delmore), Ben’s wife?

Shrooms is a 2007 horror film about a group of American studentsand their Irish guide who are stalked by a serial killer while out in the woods looking for psilocybin mushrooms. The film was written by Pearse Elliott directed by Paddy Breathnach, and stars Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, and Max Kasch.

Vertigo Films is a UK Film and Media production and distribution company, founded in 2002, with the aim of producing and distributing commercially driven independent cinema.

Vertigo Films are also a partner in the International sales companyProtagonist Pictures, a joint venture with Film 4 and Ingenious Media.

Vertigo Films also own The Post Republic, a successful state of the art post production facility based in Berlin.

Vertigo have produced and distributed twenty seven films to date and secured the company's position as the leading UK low budget production company through an unprecedented string of profitable films in our first six years. From the huge selling success of Nick Love Films such as The Football Factory (the biggest selling independent UK DVD with 1.3M units to date), The Business and Outlaw, to the critical and award winning releases of titles such as Its All Gone Pete Tong (Best Film Toronto Film Festival/Best film HBO US Comedy awards) to the multi award winning London to Brighton and In Search of A Midnight Kiss

Producer: Jake west 

Remake of Doghouse made in 1998