about the company
Blue Eyes Film Sales & Distribution is a film and television sales and distribution company, with office in London, Europe and North America.
Founded in 2023, the company headhunted Michael Cowan, a veteran film producer, financier, distributor, and sales agent. He has built up media businesses in film and television such as Arclight Films, Bulldog Film Distribution, film financier Movision and others and has put together big budget TV series such as Napoleon and films such as Merchant of Venice, Lord Of War, Head In The Clouds, Plots With A View and many more working from budgets of US$1-US$75M. He’s on board to grow the business with his relationships across the board from directors, agents, talent, buyers in his thirty plus years in the film and TV business.
We can come into a project from any stage on a project-by-project basis as well as representing producers on their finished films and television series and documentaries as a sales agent.
We can provide on a project-by-project basis:
1. Minimum guarantees against distribution rights.
2. Finishing funds against worldwide distribution rights
3. Tax rebates cash flowed and managed or arrange from other third parties.
4. Source content from leading producers and agents from around the world.
5. Film sales and licensing world-wide to independent distributors and/or studios.
6. Creation of international and domestic marketing campaigns
7. Royalty reports and overage collection by territory to maximise revenues.
8. P&A control by territory.
9. Access to film festivals i.e. Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, AFM (American Film Market), MIPTV, MIPCOM, Hong Kong Film Market and others
We like to create a safe and secure working environment for creative teams to prosper, we oversee and lead projects through sales financing and production into distribution and exhibition. All the while, working hand in hand with filmmakers and storytellers to create captivating films, TV and Docs as well as personal relationships with producers and directors. Our aim is to always push the commercial boundaries whilst communicating and sharing inspirational and spellbinding stories. Doing so in a new, exciting, or unique style, for a large and ever-changing audience and marketplace with a firm focus on commerciality.