- Channel 4
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 18/05/10
Nine-year old Shiloh Pepin wants to be just like any other girl her age, but she suffers from an extremely rare disease. She is the world’s only living mermaid.
Shiloh has Sirenomelia or ‘mermaid syndrome’, a congenital disorder that means her legs are fused together. She was …
- BBC Three
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 29/04/10
Learning to drive is a daunting and stressful experience even for the calmest of individuals – but much more so when you have Autism. It can also be much more important for people with Autism than for neuro-typical people as it represents the independence they often …
- BBC Three
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 22/04/10
The Autistic Me was a high rating and critically acclaimed documentary that followed the lives of three young men with autism as they struggled with the transition to adulthood: trying to find work, looking for love and striving for independence. This follow up film catches up …
- BBC Switch
- 6 x 30mins
- TX: 06/03/2010
Single, Together, Whatever is a six part observational documentary series aimed at 12-17 year olds. The series follows the lives of 18 teenagers as they boldly open the door to their personal lives revealing their inner most thoughts, hopes and fears regarding relationships and love.
In true …
- Channel 4 (Cutting Edge)
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 9pm 18/02/2010
Entering the world of 21st Century gypsy and traveller weddings, where ancient traditions meet modern fashions in an ostentatious culture clash, this film follows four gypsy and traveller families on their wedding day.
Considered ‘on the shelf’ at 20, in gypsy and traveller communities …
- TLC
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 11/10/2009
Shiloh Peppin who was born with an extremely rare condition known as Mermaid Syndrome. This sequel to the successful first film ‘The Little Mermaid’, will follow Shiloh as she approaches her a landmark birthday doctors told her parents she would never reach. Commissioned by TLC.
A pop promo for the band Incognito, based around a jewellery robbery. This is the first release from their brand new album, Tales From The Beach.
Company Profile
Since it began trading in early 2003, Firecracker Films has produced high profile documentaries to critical acclaim and outstanding viewing figures, as well as innovative motion graphics, 3D animations and successful corporate campaigns for a wide range of blue chip clients. These include the BBC, Channel 4, Five, Sky, …
- Animal Planet
- 6 x 30mins
- TX: 17/04/09
Featuring some of the most intimate footage of wild bears ever seen, this moving series follows Charlie Vandergaw, an extraordinary man who has been living a potentially lethal existence deep in the Alaskan wilderness for over 20 years.
Charlie has developed a unique, but controversial, relationship with …
- Channel 4
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 12/04/06
“Emmanuelle” was the biggest cult soft-porn movie of the 1970s, spurning the most sequels to any film ever made and watched by an audience of 300 million people worldwide.
Featuring in Channel 4’s “Dark Side of Porn” season, “Hunting Emmanuelle” explores the cultural impact the film had …
- Five’s Extraordinary People Strand
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 20/03/06
“The Seven Year-Old Surgeon” profiles Akrit Jaswal, a child prodigy from a remote village at the foothills of the Himalayas. By the age of five, Akrit was reading Shakespeare and by seven had performed his first surgical operation on an 8 year old girl.
Now …
- Channel 4’s Cutting Edge Strand
- 1 x 60mins
- TX: 07/07/08
This film tells the incredible story of Dena Thompson, dubbed ‘The Black Widow’, a woman who married men, and then tried to kill them after conning them out of everything they owned.
After sending her first husband on the run, murdering her second husband …