About us

Posted: January 10, 2010 in News

Opiate of the People Films are a multi award-winning production company who have been producing content for TV and web for over a decade.  Our commercials and music videos have been televised in Europe and America. Our feature films have screened at festivals around the world, and our webseries have received over 1,000,000 views.

We are always looking for new commissions. Even when our schedule is seemingly packed solid, we’ll do what we can to accomodate your project and budget.

Email – hello@opiatefilms.com / Phone – 0151 706 0371

To thank you for your support over this year, we’ve decided to put our 2010 supernatural horror feature film Stitches – online for FREE!

Be warned – it’s neither suitable for work, nor children.  Click on the poster below to watch, of go here to watch it bigger.

And if you enjoy it, hit the button on the left to donate!

Our recent greenscreen-shot feature film/musical/spoof, The Carny Ball Run, is online. In it’s entirety. Including trailers at the start and intermission with more of our music promos.

All for FREE, because we and the bands involved appreciate our fans so very, very much.

Check it out at our friends Blip.TV who are streaming it exclusively.

Don’t assume we’re just about rock videos – we got a call a week ago about doing a promo for SAE’s Bootcamps – an exercise class with a difference.  These guys go across the country, take DJs along and work hard to get fit.  But don’t let me ramble on about it, see for yourself:

The Carny Ball Run was a resounding success – a packed out crowd watched the movie, danced to the bands, and it blew even us away at how well it went.

It’s been so crazy recently that we forgot to post the video we did for Fenech Solar a little while back… so here it is!

We’ve been so busy getting the movie wrapped that we  forgot to post this on the blog!

 

We’re making another feature film.

In just 6 weeks.  Well… we have 2 weeks left.  We had 6 to start with.

And it’s a musical. Shot entirely on greenscreen.

Yes, it’s insane – but it is a wonderfully silly story, starring some wonderful bands; Howard Be Thy Name, Zombina & The Skeletones, Lovecraft and Jimmy Lightfoot & The Disciples.

It premieres  at The Kazimier on November 19th, with all four bands accompanying the movie LIVE.

Trailer coming soon!

We can finally talk about it – and about time too.

APatT asked us to create a video for their visual album Ogadimma – and this was our take on their mental experimental track “We took a choo choo to bumbleside”.

We’ve finally started shooting our secret project – but we can’t show anything or talk about it yet.

However – in a few weeks, we’ll FINALLY be able to show you the results of our other secret project… the one for APatT…

Stay tuned!  In the meantime, here’s that teaser again:

We LOVE Lovecraft.

When they asked us to do a video for their new album we pitched for pretty much every track – and this is the one that they loved as much as we did!

Two weeks in the making, we give you… Hell’s Teeth.

We’ve been hard at work on another secret project, so haven’t had much time to update the blog…  but now we’ve got an excuse!

Those lovely folks at The Kazimier asked as to throw together a promo for their new immersive theatrical experience that takes you to the centre of the earth… to a world within the world…

We only had a few hours free, but this is what we came up with: