THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST
Directed by Jerry Rothwell
About us
MetFilm Production is an independent production company making high-quality documentary and fiction film and TV.
Our most recent project is the BAFTA TV nominated THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST, a hybrid documentary-drama series produced for Apple TV+ which investigates the case of the Enfield poltergeist and premiered in Oct 2023. In post-production is LAST BREATH, a fiction remake of our documentary of the same name, which stars Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu and has been sold around the world by FilmNation.
Recent films include MISHA AND THE WOLVES directed by Sam Hobkinson, which had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival; THE REASON I JUMP directed by Jerry Rothwell, which also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won BIFA Best Documentary award; and the fiction film 23 WALKS starring Alison Steadman and Dave Johns.
Other releases include thriller documentary LAST BREATH, comedy SWIMMING WITH MEN, starring Rob Brydon and directed by Oliver Parker, documentary SOUR GRAPES and the award-winning HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, which premiered at Hot Docs and Sundance respectively.
Previous films include hit comedy THE INFIDEL starring Omid Djalili, Grierson-winner DEEP WATER, FRENCH FILM starring Hugh Bonneville, Sarah Gavron’s VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Jeanie Finlay’s THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX and BAFTA-winning short SEPTEMBER by Esther May Campbell.
MetFilm Production works alongside sister companies MetFilm Sales and MetFilm Distribution, which are part of MetFilm Studio.
Our Team
Stewart le Maréchal
Producer, Head of MetFilm Production
Stewart is a BAFTA-winning producer and head of MetFilm Production. His most recent project is THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST, a hybrid documentary-drama series produced for Apple TV+ which investigates the case of the Enfield poltergeist and premiered in Oct 2023. In post-production is LAST BREATH, a fiction remake of our documentary of the same name, which stars Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu and has been sold around the world by FilmNation. Recent releases include MISHA AND THE WOLVES directed by Sam Hobkinson, which had its World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival; THE REASON I JUMP directed by Jerry Rothwell, which also premiered at Sundance Film Festival and won a BIFA Best Documentary award; and the fiction film 23 WALKS starring Alison Steadman and Dave Johns.
Previous fiction producing credits include SWIMMING WITH MEN, directed by Oliver Parker and starring Rob Brydon; THE INFIDEL starring Omid Djalili; FRENCH FILM starring Hugh Bonneville; and LITTLE ASHES starring Robert Pattinson. Feature documentary credits as executive producer include Alex Parkinson & Richard da Costa’s LAST BREATH; Jerry Rothwell’s HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD and SOUR GRAPES; Sarah Gavron’s THE VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD; and Jeanie Finlay’s THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX. He produced Esther May Campbell’s short film, SEPTEMBER, which won BAFTA Best Short Film.
Stew is a member of BAFTA, the ACE producers network, and an alumnus of the Inside Pictures programme.
Al Morrow
Producer, Head of Documentary
Al is an award-winning producer and Head of Documentary at MetFilm Production. Her latest 4-part series THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST, directed by Jerry Rothwell for Apple TV+, was released in October 2023. Previous films include MISHA AND THE WOLVES (NETFLIX/BBC) directed by Sam Hobkinson, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival; THE REASON I JUMP (BFI/VULCAN) directed by Jerry Rothwell which won Best Single Documentary – International at the Griersons, Best Cinema Documentary at the 2021 BIFA Awards, and the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival 2020. Al also produced LAST BREATH (Netflix/Creative Scotland/BBC Scotland/ZDF/ARTE) directed by Richard da Costa and Alex Parkinson; SOUR GRAPES directed by Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas for Netflix, ARTE and VPRO; and HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (Sky Atlantic/BFI/Impact Partners/CTV), which premiered as a Day One film at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Grierson award.
Previous work include Jeanie Finlay’s films PANTOMIME (BBC Storyville) and THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX (BBC/Creative Scotland); Sarah Gavron’s VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD; Jerry Rothwell’s THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD and TOWN OF RUNNERS (ITVS/Britdoc C4); the Grierson-nominated films DONOR UNKNOWN (More4/ITVS/Arte) and MEN WHO SWIM (BBC Storyville/Arte/SVT/VPRO); HEAVY LOAD (BBC Storyville, IFCtv, ITVS); and DEEP WATER (Pathe/UKFC/FilmFour), winner of the Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary.
Anna Mohr-Pietsch
Producer, Head of Development
Anna is a Producer and Head of Development at MetFilm Production. Her most recent feature film, 23 WALKS, which was theatrically released in the UK in 2020 and will open in the US in summer 2021. Together with Stewart le Maréchal, Anna is responsible for producing, developing, and managing a diverse slate of fiction projects for film and TV, with special emphasis on sourcing stories from MetFilm’s documentary output for narrative adaptation. The most recent example is the Oliver Parker comedy SWIMMING WITH MEN starring Rob Brydon, based on documentary MEN WHO SWIM. There are also several other doc-to-fiction remakes in the pipeline.
Anna brings her in-depth knowledge and experience of converting documentary IP into fiction projects to her colleagues at MetFilm Sales, providing advice for filmmakers, and routes to future partnerships.
Prior to joining MetFilm, Anna held roles at The Weinstein Company and Working Title Films, where she was involved in the acquisition, development, production, and distribution of such award-winning films as THE KING’S SPEECH, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, THE ROAD, NOWHERE BOY, ATONEMENT, FROST/NIXON, and TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY. Anna has also worked extensively as a script consultant and has produced, EP’d, and production managed shorts.
Jerry Rothwell
Filmmaker, Executive Producer
Jerry is a filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature documentaries: THE REASON I JUMP, based on the bestselling book by Naoki Higashida; THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD, about radical educationalist, Sugata Mitra; HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, about the founders of Greenpeace; SOUR GRAPES (co-directed with Reuben Atlas) a film about a wine counterfeiter TOWN OF RUNNERS, about two girls in an Ethiopian village who aspire to be athletes; DONOR UNKNOWN, about a sperm donor and his many offspring; HEAVY LOAD, about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band, and DEEP WATER (co-directed with Louise Osmond), about Donald Crowhurst’s ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race. His most recent project is THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST, a hybrid documentary-drama series for Apple TV+ which investigates the case of the Enfield poltergeist and premiered in Oct 2023.
His work has won numerous accolades including two Grierson Awards, a Sundance Special Jury Prize, an RTS Award, the IDA Pare Lorentz Award, and BAFTA nominations.
At MetFilm Production, he has exec produced and worked as an editor on numerous feature docs including Dylan Williams’ MEN WHO SWIM (now fiction feature SWIMMING WITH MEN starring Rob Brydon) and Sarah Gavron’s THE VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
Jonny Persey
Director of MetFilm
Jonny is the director of MetFilm, the founder of MetFilm Production and MetFilm Sales, and director of MetFilm School.
Jonny executive produced numerous documentaries, most recently the Sundance award-winner THE REASON I JUMP and Netflix hit LAST BREATH. He has also produced or executive produced a series of fiction films, including THE MERCY based on MetFilm Production’s documentary DEEP WATER, and SWIMMING WITH MEN based on MetFilm Production’s documentary MEN WHO SWIM.
