From the directors of Lawless Heart comes SPARKLE, a hilarious and heart-warming comedy about life, love, and getting ahead in the twenty-first century.

Sam Sparkes (Shaun Evans) is a 22 year old with ambitions: move to London and join the glamorous PR world. When Vince (Bob Hoskins) finds Sam  a job as a waiter, he meets his soon-to-be PR boss, Sheila (Stockard Channing). Sensing opportunity, Sam charms himself a job as Sheila's PA... and her lover.

But when Sam falls for Kate (Amanda Ryan), he instigates a series of family betrayals and romantic mishaps. As balancing his job and love life becomes overwhelming, unexpected twists and uncovered secrets force Sam to choose between his career and the woman of his dreams.

The filmmakers

Neil Hunter & Tom Hunsinger  (Writer-Directors)    
Writer-director team Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger's first feature film, Boyfriends, was made on a shoestring budget and went on to be released on both sides of the Atlantic.
Subsequently Lawless Heart, an ensemble comedy about falling in love when you shouldn't, with a cast including Bill Nighy, Douglas Henshall and Tom Hollander, won awards including the Evening Standard Award for Best Screenplay; Best Screenplay at the British Independent Film Awards as well as prizes at festivals including Locarno and Dinard and appearances at festivals from Moscow to Tribeca and Melbourne. 

Lawless Heart was the first ever British film selected as Time Out Gala in the London Film Festival.  The New York Times described it as "delightful and absorbing... infinitely interesting...(and) made to seem so both by the grace and intelligence of the actors and by the unassuming cleverness of the filmmakers".

Tom Hunsinger has also been an actor for many years, working with the Royal Shakespeare Company under Trevor Nunn, as well as working in the theatre with directors including Roger Michell, Deborah Warner and most recently Nicholas Hytner. Tom has appeared in many films, and has worked with directors ranging from the Brothers Quay and Peter Greenaway to Clive Barker and Michael Winner.  He has directed numerous theatre productions and teaches and directs at LAMDA and RADA.

Neil Hunter made several shorts while attending part-time film school.  In 1992 he wrote and directed Tell Me No Lies, a short film that Hunsinger worked on; it became their first collaboration.  Neil has taught on the Moonstone screenwriting workshops, and is developing a number of other feature film projects, including his next collaboration with Tom, a comedy road movie Three Way Split, for Magic Light Pictures.

Martin Pope (Producer)
Martin Pope's recent feature film productions include award winning and critical successes The Heart of Me (starring Paul Bettany, Helena Bonham Carter and Olivia Williams) and Lawless Heart (starring Bill Nighy). Touch of Pink (starring Jimi Mistry and Kyle Maclachlan) premiered to great acclaim at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival where it was bought for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.  He ran his own independent production company for ten years, striking co-production and financing deals with Channel Four, BBC, Isle of Man, private equity, banks and international distributors.  He produced Turn of the Screw for ITV; as well as being a producer in BBC Films on such projects as director John Madden's Meat, and John Schlesinger's BAFTA-winning film of Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution.

Michael Rose (Producer)
Michael Rose headed the feature film division of UK animation studio Aardman, brokering their multi picture deal with DreamWorks.  He was Executive Producer of hit animated picture Chicken Run, as well as Nick Park's Oscar and BAFTA winning Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit for DreamWorks. 

Previously he produced Nick Park's Oscar winning Wallace and Gromit film, A Close Shave, and has produced two other Oscar nominated short films, Humdrum and Wat's Pig, and is winner of two individual BAFTA awards.   He also produced the animated television series Rex The Runt and Britain's first online hit series, Angry Kid. Prior to joining Aardman, he was a program buyer for Channel Four Television from 1990-94. Michael began his career programming and running independent cinemas in Plymouth and Bristol.