Firecracker’s brand has become recognised for producing stylistic hard-hitting documentaries with huge international sales appeal. Described by Channel 4 as a company that is able to “turn tabloid stories into broadsheet articles”, the company has produced some of the highest rated films for the networks to date including:
The Human Spider
The World’s Strongest Boy
The Seven Year Old Surgeon
The Man Whose Arms Exploded!
The Black Widow
Having formed strong relationships with commissioning editors across the board, the company continues to seek out incredible subject matter that guarantees appointment-to-view, ‘water cooler’ television.
With 35 high profile films under its belt (see below) Firecracker are now looking to diverse into formats and observational documentary series, whilst retaining the look, feel and visual flair that has become the company’s trademark. Firecracker has also gained a reputation amongst International Broadcasters and is currently working on a number of projects for US broadcasters.
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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 …
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 …
Preferring glass and steel to rock and stone, and without ropes or safety equipment one man has taken the art of climbing to dangerous new heights… Having already conquered 80 of highest building’s on earth, Alain …
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 …
Dean Potter is a unique breed of daredevil. He is the only person in the world practicing extreme slacklining – a hair-raising variation of tightrope walking which sees him crossing a bouncy stretch of 1-inch …
Dutch daredevil Wim Hof is planning to run a full 26-mile marathon 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, clad only in shorts and open sandals. Wim won’t be doing any physical training. He sees this as …
The incredible spectacle of proximity wingsuit flying involves wearing a state-of-the-art Teflon winged suit, jumping off a cliff edge thousands of feet up and flying terrifyingly close to some of the world’s most dangerous mountain faces …
Becoming an adult is a long and treacherous journey – but if you’re a young person with Autism that adventure can be fraught with hurdles.
“The Autistic Me” follows three young guys with Autism at pivotal moments …
Baboons are the most vicious primates on the planet, but that hasn’t stopped Karin Saks from forming a unique bond with them. Having rejected human society, she has been able to enter and gain the trust of …
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 …
Provocative and explosive, this character-led documentary follows families that live to pull the trigger. These parents are passionate about guns, the bigger the better, and are eagerly training their children to use them whether …
Against all odds, Shiloh Pepin of Portland, Maine turned 8 years old in August 2007. She was born with Mermaid Syndrome, or Sirenomelia, one of the rarest conditions known to man. This condition means …
In this entertaining and informative documentary, Alesha Dixon, former lead singer of Mis-teeq and winner of “BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing”, sets herself a mission. To explore the world of digital retouching, highlighting the effects that perfect …
Alain Robert is on the 88th floor of a skyscraper. Looking down at the city below, his heart is pounding, his palms sweating. It wouldn’t be so bad – except that he’s on the …
Preacher Samuel Boutwell takes his vocation to save sinners from the fires of Hell extremely seriously, and spends every Saturday trying to turn women away from his local Mississippi abortion clinic. Samuel is seven …
Charlie Vandergaw lives alone in the Alaskan wilderness with one of the world’s most dangerous carnivores, the bear. For more than twenty years he’s been trying to habituate man and both black and grizzly bear, to prove …
Film maker Lawrence Barraclough’s follow up to “My Penis and I”, one of the most watched and talked about documentaries on BBC Three. It is a film about penis size, men and why that thing that …
Mania is a 3 x 60′ highly visual series that looks inside the mind of the maniac and attempts to understand the overwhelming impulses that can take over the human body.
Erotomania is the delusuional belief that …
Mania is a 3 x 60′ highly visual series that looks inside the mind of the maniac and attempts to understand the overwhelming impulses that can take over the human body.
Pyromania follows those with an unhealthy …
Mania is a 3 x 60′ highly visual series that looks inside the mind of the maniac and attempts to understand the overwhelming impulses that can take over the human body.
Egomania focuses on Narcissistic Personality Disorder …
Imagine not knowing your mother, your father, your brother or sister? Imagine having no recollection of the world in which you live. Or anything that has ever happened to you. On December 4, 2005 …
In 2001, two of the world’s leading plastic surgeons, pioneering the latest technology and surgical techniques set up the UK’s only charity to offer surgery to overseas children suffering with facial disfigurement.
With unprecedented access, …
A permanent erection, massive quantities of speed and cocaine, peanut-sized testicles, thick brown urine, handfuls of downers, horse steroids, Frankenstein’s monster syndrome, bitch tits, massive trauma, total shut-down, sudden death. Welcome to the disturbing …
A growing number of people are choosing a new way of life. They have rejected monogamy and turned their backs on conventional relationships. They believe their lifestyle is the future. They believe in polyamory.
Polyamory is the …
Jack seems like any other 8 year-old boy. He goes to school, he loves sport, and his favourite thing is swimming. The problem is that Jack has Morquiose, a rare genetic condition that means his skeleton …
“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” …
“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 …
This film looks at ‘macrophilia’, described as one of the world’s most bizarre syndromes. It draws on some of men and women’s deepest desires to conquer and be conquered. While most admit that tall …
This films examines what attracts ordinary women to some of the world’s most dangerous men as well as highlighting the difficulties of maintaining such relationships when the man is locked up for life. The film also …
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 …
In 1974, a serial killer terrorised Wichita, Kansas. Known as the BTK Killer due to the method in which would Bind, Torture and Kill his victims, his killing spree lasted for 7 years in which time he …
An observational film that follows Richard Sandrak, an 11 year-old child who since the age of 6 has been described pound for pound as the “strongest human being in the world”.
Following Richard’s dreams of becoming Hollywood’s next …
A subculture exists throughout contemporary suburban Britain that many find hard to comprehend: educated teenagers regularly gather in ‘federations’ to inflict terrible wounds on one another.
This sport, originally based on professional wrestling, contains all the ritual …
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